“I was first introduced to design when my family was building a home in the forested hills of Kumaon in Northern India. I vividly remember the many summers we spent mulling over hand drawn blueprints or scouting the local markets in search of indigenous building materials. My day would set around a bonfire discussing Laurie Baker’s notable rat-trap bond, frugal ways of floor laying and designing wall finishes with broken glass.”
Current Practice
Vrinda Mathur is a designer, strategist, and researcher who develops systems, narratives, and participatory experiences to help people engage with complex social and environmental challenges. Her work sits at the intersection of sustainability, public health, and community engagement, translating research and lived experience into meaningful interventions that invite dialogue, reflection, and action.
Working across disciplines and scales, Vrinda partners with organizations to lead design strategy, storytelling, and participatory research initiatives. Her practice spans exhibitions, installations, workshops, and other public-facing experiences, focusing on creating accessible and engaging ways for people to connect with ideas, each other, and the world around them.
Her recent projects include Hope Bodega, a participatory design initiative with Mount Sinai that uses personal objects and stories to open conversations about mental health, hope, and resilience; A Constitution for 2076, a strategic foresight project exploring possibilities for a more responsive democracy; and Terra Carta Design Lab, a climate-focused design incubator developing sustainability-driven products and systems.
Vrinda holds a Master’s in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor’s in Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, India.
From 2014 to 2021, Vrinda played a pivotal role in co-founding and leading Studio Wood, an award-winning furniture and interior architecture practice based in New Delhi, India
VRMADE CO.
[Vee-Aar-Made-Co]
Vrinda Mathur is the founder and principal designer of VRMADE CO. a strategic design consultancy based in Brooklyn, New York.
Harness design, creativity, and unconventional play as essential tools to address the most pressing humanitarian and ecological challenges of our time.
Advocating for problem-solving frameworks as the new standard for transdisciplinary collaboration, with a focus on making creative solutions the default approach to addressing complex, systemic challenges.
Vrinda Mathur is a designer, strategist, and researcher who develops systems, narratives, and participatory experiences to help people engage with complex social and environmental challenges. Her work sits at the intersection of sustainability, public health, and community engagement, translating research and lived experience into meaningful interventions that invite dialogue, reflection, and action.
Working across disciplines and scales, Vrinda partners with organizations to lead design strategy, storytelling, and participatory research initiatives. Her practice spans exhibitions, installations, workshops, and other public-facing experiences, focusing on creating accessible and engaging ways for people to connect with ideas, each other, and the world around them.
Her recent projects include Hope Bodega, a participatory design initiative with Mount Sinai that uses personal objects and stories to open conversations about mental health, hope, and resilience; A Constitution for 2076, a strategic foresight project exploring possibilities for a more responsive democracy; and Terra Carta Design Lab, a climate-focused design incubator developing sustainability-driven products and systems.
Vrinda holds a Master’s in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor’s in Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, India.
From 2014 to 2021, Vrinda played a pivotal role in co-founding and leading Studio Wood, an award-winning furniture and interior architecture practice based in New Delhi, India
VRMADE CO.
[Vee-Aar-Made-Co]Vrinda Mathur is the founder and principal designer of VRMADE CO. a strategic design consultancy based in Brooklyn, New York.
Mission
Harness design, creativity, and unconventional play as essential tools to address the most pressing humanitarian and ecological challenges of our time.
Advocating for problem-solving frameworks as the new standard for transdisciplinary collaboration, with a focus on making creative solutions the default approach to addressing complex, systemic challenges.
