Sacchita Nandi Sriganapathiraju

About

Sacchita Nandi Sriganapathiraju is a design futurist, systems thinker, and design researcher whose practice lies at the intersection of systemic care, environmental justice, and collective futures. Rooted in service and systems design, her work spans public and private sectors, with a core focus on health, environment urban resilience, and ecological thinking.

Sacchita also serves as the Vice president for the RCA students union.

Guided by the principles of transition design and more-than-human worldviews, she explores speculative design as a powerful form of provocation, not to escape reality, but to confront it, opening up inclusive pathways for communities traditionally excluded from futures thinking.

Her Independent Research Project, “Pandemic Playbook: Rewriting Our Futures,” working with London’s preparedness teams, rethinks preparedness not as a reactive or technocratic process, but as a preventative, trust-building, and participatory practice.

Sacchita’s toolkit questions current narratives around foresight, challenging the idea that the ability to imagine futures thinking is a privilege to most. Instead, she explores how future tools can be democratized and localized toward collective agency, especially in marginalized or crisis-affected contexts.

She previously co-founded a government-funded startup addressing vector-borne diseases in Indian slums, led award-winning social impact projects at Ooloi Labs, in collaboration with organizations like Noora Health, MHai,  Veditum Foundation, and Arghyam.