shruthi venkat


shruthi is a designer, researcher and artist. currently working as a new technologies researcher at erasmusx, erasmus university rotterdam 

about me



Ex-Re 2022



- Selected as a mentee for a 6 month mentorship pogram with a speculative designer/ future practitioner


Dutch Design Week’ 2022


Projects I was a part of-  
- More than human conversation starters
- Heli-AI
- Check your technoprivilege 


MIT India initiative 2020


- Track: Telling Tangible Tales The 5-day workshop helped us in understanding the basics of storytelling, representation techniques and moving on with ideation and brainstorming and finally coming up with a prototype. The project we worked on was called “Validation Metrics”. Learn more



Code 2022




- Selected as a resident to work on topics of reclaiming digital agency and digital rights in 2022.

- Finished the residency with Heli-AI, a fictional product about AI- interpersonal communication
- Presented at ARS Electronica’22


Volunteering work


- DCode winter school- helped document the happenings of the winter school held online in Jan, 2022.

Work at TU Delft


- Student editor for the International Student Office
- Teaching assistant on courses on-  Data design and Envisioning the Future
- Research assistant working on more than human design and conversational agents.
- Student Assisstant for the Expressive Intelligence Lab 




Post Inertia summer school-2020




This was a team project executed at a summer school. The goal was to imagine augmented democracy rooms of the future. As a part of the Technological Democratization track.