ABOUT | sandragithinji

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 processes across space and object making. Sandra is currently undertaking a Creative Practice PhD at RMIT University, titled Constellations of Home, exploring 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.

Alongside her studio work, Sandra teaches within the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) program at RMIT University. Her teaching expands the discipline’s reference points and fosters culturally responsive, critically engaged design practices rooted in story, context, and community. Across all aspects of her practice, Sandra continues to explore how design can act not only as a mode of creation, but as a way of remembering what came before, reclaiming what was interrupted, reimagining what is possible, and reconnecting us to one another.