I am a senior in Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), concentrating in Nature, Culture, and Sustainability Studies (NCSS). My practice is rooted in exploring how beauty, form, and material presence shape the way we experience objects. I move between product design, material research, and spatial work, treating design as a way to sculpt meaning through aesthetics and structure.

Across my projects, I use form as a language. I see it as a way to express relationships between body, object, and environment. My process blends digital modeling with hands-on craft, allowing me to work intuitively with proportion, detail, and material qualities. I am drawn to designs that feel both precise and poetic, where technical decisions heighten emotional and sensory impact.

Projects like Terra, a biodegradable shoe built from biomaterials and recycled components, and Auralis, a sculptural headphone designed around adornment and ergonomics, reflect my interest in the expressive potential of form and its connection to identity, movement, and the everyday rituals of use.

Whether I am developing an object, system, or experience, I focus on creating work that is visually compelling and materially honest. I aim to build designs that captivate through beauty and clarity while inviting deeper engagement with the stories and ecologies embedded within them.

Feel free to reach out at slakhani@risd.edu — I’d love to connect!