Sandra Githinji is a sessional instructor in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University in Naarm (Melb), Australia. She was born in Kenya.
Her study and design work focuses on the ways in which cultural histories, education, activism, and architecture connect. The studio is committed to cultural manifestations that center indigeneity and global citizenship in order to challenge the Western-centric worldview that has been mistakenly propagated as a worldwide standard.
Interior, exhibition, product, furniture, and lighting design are just some of the areas where the firm blurs the lines between traditional specializations.
Sandra Githinji is a sessional lecturer at RMIT University and a designer who works across disciplines. Her design work investigates the ways in which people’s cultural and historical backgrounds shape their perceptions of space and time. Themes central to her work have their origins in African postcolonial critical theory, and she works across disciplines, including interior, product, and furniture design. She is actively researching the connections between curatorial activism and issues of equality and inclusion in the arts.
When did you first become interested in architecture, and how did you first come to learn about it?
My dad was a civil engineer, so we always had literature on timber construction lying around the house. When I was young, I helped out at my mother’s furniture company, and it was then that I discovered my passion for interior design.
Where do you go from here?
My design expertise spans many fields, and I have a formal education in interior architecture.
What is it about your job that most motivates you? In a professional sense, who or what motivates you?
When audience members tell me they can identify with the characters and the story, it warms my heart.
Both my family’s past and the insightful discussions I have with my fellow designers serve as sources of motivation.
In a professional sense, who or what motivates you? Please describe the professional accomplishment of which you are most proud.
Please describe the professional accomplishment of which you are most proud.
I’m sure I’ll have many more successes in the future, but the most recent and noteworthy would be the successful Kickstarter crowd funding campaign I ran in 2021 for Bloom, which resulted in my receiving the 2021 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice Winner award.
Bloom is envisioned as a set of sculptural vases that pay tribute to extraordinary women from Africa whose histories have been largely forgotten. It’s a visual representation of the resilience and strength of the women who climbed from humble beginnings to become influential role models and leaders in their communities and the world.
Ms. SANDRA GITHINJI
When did you first become interested in architecture, and how did you first come to learn about it?
My design expertise spans many fields, and I have a formal education in interior architecture.
What is it about your job that most motivates you? In a professional sense, who or what motivates you?
When audience members tell me they can identify with the characters and the story, it warms my heart.
Both my family’s past and the insightful discussions I have with my fellow designers serve as sources of motivation.
In a professional sense, who or what motivates you? Please describe the professional accomplishment of which you are most proud.
Please describe the professional accomplishment of which you are most proud.
I’m sure I’ll have many more successes in the future, but the most recent and noteworthy would be the successful Kickstarter crowd funding campaign I ran in 2021 for Bloom, which resulted in my receiving the 2021 VIVID x Houzz People’s Choice Winner award.
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