Virajita Singh

Senior research fellow/adjunct assistant professor, University of Minnesota College of Design
Virajita Singh leads Design Thinking @ College of Design, whose goal is to unleash the creative potential of individuals and organizations across sectors to innovate in fulfilling their mission.

She teaches Design Thinking for Innovation to graduate students from across disciplines at the university. She brings her deep expertise as a designer, educator and researcher from the fields of architecture, sustainable design and design thinking to her work, including the Higher Ed Redesign Initiative, a collaboration with the Jandris Center for Innovative Higher Education, or J CENTER, in the College of Education and Human Development and the Midwestern Higher Education Compact.

Singh’s other work includes co-leading the College of Design’s Public Interest Design Initiative and working with communities across Minnesota through the Design for Community Resilience program that she created at the Center for Sustainable Building Research. She has a bachelor’s degree from Mumbai, India, and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota, both in architecture.