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2025 Ted Coons Dissertation Prize

photo credit: Christopher Andrew @stoptimelive

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Nandita Baxi Sheth has worked as an architect, planner, educator, and researcher. She taught the  transdisciplinary Honors Course in at the University of Cincinnati in collaboration with engineer Dr. Whitney Gaskins called Sticky Innovation which participates in the International  Biodesign Challenge. She is a founder and collaborator with the Strange Tools Research Lab in the Digital Futures Program at UC. Nandita has a BA in Architectural Studies, English, and Art & Art History from Rice University; a Master of Community Planning & a Master of Visual Arts Education from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). In 2025 she completed her doctoral studies with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Her dissertation "Being Melliferous: Towards a Multispecies Aesthetics" received the Ted Coons Dissertation Prize. Her interests include: developing pedagogical and curricular blueprints for cross-disciplinary engagement with “wicked problems”, research about planetary aesthetics, and writing about the poetics of bees. 

Nandita loves to make things, walk outdoors, and spend time with her children, family, and friends.
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To learn about how her website got its name look here. In addition to designing my website I dabble in making websites for fellow artists. For example look here. 

Unofficial

I believe art will the save the world, yes really....
I stop for flowers...and moss...and of course all winged beings...
I love everything miniature, see my matchbox series
I have two children and a husband who "do" science, look here and here.
I grew up in Kansas, studied in Texas, have lived in India, the Philippines, The People's Republic of China; and call Cincinnati home.