Radhika Subramaniam is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) from 2009-2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explores crises and surprises as they emerge in urban life, walking, art and human-nonhuman relationships. Her publications include the book Footprint: Four Itineraries (Essays in the Critical Humanities/np: 2025) and the essays “An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to the City of New York” (2024); “Notes for a Seedy Politics” (2023), and “Donkeywork: A Eulogy” (2020).
