Sushmita Shrestha

MFA design & technology
Sushmita Shrestha is a designer, creative technologist, and multidisciplinary researcher interested in how design and technology shape human interaction and experience. Her work spans material exploration, code-based art, interaction design, and digital experiences.

Before joining Parsons School of Design, she co-founded a natural paint startup and worked with entrepreneurs to develop tech-enabled solutions using human-centered design approaches.

Makara

2026

Makara is an interactive web experience exploring the survival of ecological knowledge and cultural memory as traditions and the physical spaces that carried them continue to fade.