Sandra Githinji is a Kenyan–Australian designer, curator, and educator living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). She leads Sandra Githinji Studio, an award-winning practice that engages in relational, reparative, and multi-scalar projects across space and object making. Sandra's PhD research (RMIT University), Constellations of Home, explores home as a living, relational practice.
Sandra Githinji Studio is guided by the gestures of remembering, reclaiming, reimagining, and reconnecting, offering an approach to design that is iterative, relational, and attentive to what has been fractured. Through spatial design, material experimentation, and collaborative projects across multiple disciplines, she explores how everyday gestures and inherited stories can be transformed into spaces and artefacts that honour lived experience. Her work seeks to cultivate forms of repair; material, social, and symbolic, and to create settings that hold memory and imagination.