Tanushri Dalmiya is a hyper-urbanist, architect and storyteller based between New York City, and Bangalore, India. Her work starts at the in-betweens: the sidewalk, the subway, the charged threshold between destinations where bodies are most active, hyper-aware and most spatially legible. She reads these spaces through overlapping social, regulatory, and ecological forces,  across urban contexts as varied as the dense historic cores of South Asia, the post-industrial waterfronts of the American Northeast, refugee settlements in Uganda or extractive landscapes of Atacama. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from RV College of Architecture, Bangalore, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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Her scholarship centres the populations most routinely rendered invisible by dominant spatial logics: women, unhoused individuals, and migrant communities, whose inhabitation of the city is defined as much by exclusion as by presence. This inquiry into gender, infrastructure of care, and the political dimensions of public space runs alongside research into conditions of environmental and geophysical extremity — territorial precarity in "productive" landscapes, the limits of climate governance at the scale of the city, and the survival of historic urban fabric under pressure. Published through Harvard University and the Inter-American Development Bank, and recognised through fellowships at the Aspen Institute, Harvard University, and Bloomberg CityLab, her body of work understands urbanism as a fundamentally contested discipline, in which streets, land use, mobility and housing policy either reproduce or unsettle existing hierarchies of belonging.

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Tanushri is the founder of Vayam, a design collective and material research laboratory in Bangalore, that deploys nature-based and craft-based design solutions into built work across scales from product, interior, architecture, and masterplanning. Presently, she is leading large-scale planning processes: comprehensive city plans, transit-oriented development, federal neighborhood transformation grants, and affordable housing strategy across the United States, at Wallace Roberts and Todd (WRT).

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Her storytelling takes multiple forms: screenprinting, photography, poetry, writing, and the design of games and social experiments that draw people into active engagement with the spaces they inhabit. She is a walker and neighborhood reader, drawn equally to the street at its most granular and to wilderness at its most demanding. She has hiked through 16 national parks, as readily through backcountry as through dense urban fabric.