Recognitions

AWARDS

  • Columbia Global Center Mumbai, $1,500 [2023]

  • GSAPP Triennial Grant, $15,000 [2023]

  • Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Fellow, $8,000 [2022]

  • Columbia Technology Ventures BioEarth Fabric Patent [Pending]

CONFERENCES + INVITED TALKS

  • ‘Tacit Knowledge and Explorations in a Natural Material Kitchen’: Material Kitchens, Cultures, Formulas, Mix Designs, Erroneous Imitations: Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. New York, New York (Invited Speaker) [2024]

  • ‘Reflections on Transcorpeal Feminism: Our Practice at the Natural Materials Lab’: Indian Ceramics Triennial Symposium. New Delhi, India (Invited Speaker) [2024]

  • ‘Emerging Feminist Art Landscapes: 3D Printing with Mud’: Mumbai Columbia Global Affairs. Mumbai, India (Invited Speaker) [2024]

  • ‘Developing and Characterizing a Typology of Soil Fabrics’: BioCalibrated Tools and Techniques of Biodesign Practice, Central Saint Martins (Conference) [2023]

  • ‘Changing Cultural Systems Towards Sustainable Fashion’ CSR: Unraveled The Loose Threads of Fast Fashion (Invited Speaker) [2023]

PUBLICATIONS

  • Developing and Characterizing a Typology of Soil Fabrics; Research Directions: Biotechnology Research. Published online by Cambridge University Press [Forthcoming 2024]

RESIDENCIES

  • Cottonwood Gulch; Albuquerque, New Mexico [2024]

  • Woodward Residency; Ridgewood, New York City [2024]

  • Art Ichol; Maihar, India [2024]

EVENTS ORGANIZED BY SENSEI MAI

  • Terreform ONE // HE3AT Sustainable Design Career Panel. Speakers: Josse Gee, Head of Community Growth at Green Jobs Board; Aaron Nesser, Co-Founder of Keel Labs + Partner at BioDesign Jobs; Cat Betances, Program Manager at Urban Design Forum. [2024]

PEER REVIEWER

  • ‘Material-Energetic Assemblages for a Curious Climate’, Technology | Architecture + Design Journal

PRESS COVERAGE




EXHIBITIONS

  • Indian Ceramics Triennial, New Delhi, India (Installation) [2024]

  • Rituals of Making: Earth Figurines (Performance): Indian Ceramics Triennial, New Delhi, India [2024]

  • BL Heart to He(art) + Artist Talk (Sculpture) Brooklyn, NY [2022]

  • Climate Imaginations: SOIL, PioneerWorks (Sculpture) Redhook, NY [2022]

  • Serigraphy Futures, Elm Foundation (Serigraphy) Brooklyn, NY [2022]