Aarya is a design researcher at the Highlands and Islands centre of DHI. She is passionate about designing services to make them tangible to people. She is committed to collaborative problem solving to build sustainable rural communities. She believes in community-based initiatives and transformation that involves place-based thinking.

Aarya recently completed her postgraduation in Design Innovation and Environmental design from the Glasgow School of Art. Since then she has a growing interest in participatory design and codesign practices for qualitative research.

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