Kadambari Baxi

Kadambari Baxi, architect and professor of professional practice at Barnard + Columbia Architecture Department, begins Fall 2025 as the Movement Lab faculty director.

Kadambari’s architecture + media practice combines moving images, architectural visualizations, interactive environments, and spatial design as modes for public pedagogy, activism, and advocacy on vital socio-political issues today. Recent work includes projects on the climate emergency (Climate Justice WTF), reproductive healthcare (Trigger Planting), transboundary air pollution (Air Drifts), migrant labor exploitation on construction sites (Who Builds Your Architecture?). Circulating widely, these projects were exhibited at the Architecture Biennale and Triennale in Seoul and Oslo, Frieze Art Fair and Unison Sculpture Garden in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art in Nanjing, among other venues. Her research-based projects often involve multidisciplinary teams and collaborations with artists, scientists, humanists, as well as human-rights organizations, public-health agencies, and civic organizations. For project excerpts, see website: www.kbaxi.net.

At Barnard, Kadambari teaches architectural design studios and environmental visualizations seminars. Additionally, as the Movement Lab faculty director, she is excited to work with its team to support an open creative lab for experimentation with emerging technologies and multimedia environments. Interconnecting study and performance of movement at multiple scales - from dynamic particles to migrating (non)humans to flowing digital bits - the Lab offers a collaborative space for multidisciplinary projects, courses, and forums. Dedicated to amplifying the agency of artists, it seeks to redefine the critical roles collective arts and sciences (can) play in reinterpreting and reshaping the worlds, near, far, or in between.