Deepta is a design activist and researcher working towards new ecological futures, to influence ecological transformations and understandings of climate change towards greater nature-culture synchronicities. Her work is driven to create new pathways in design, environment, education and policy. Her research focus is at the intersection of design and environment, inhabitants and atmosphere, movement and material, and intersects with design research, sustainability, ecological planning and environmental policy. She conceptualizes and facilitates complex projects concerned with the environment and communities, to catalyse socio-ecological change in contentious and sensitive terrains. For her, design is a creative process of inventing, adapting and imagining ways of seeing, engaging and acting in open dynamic systems, and is about constructing positive change in the environment. 

Of particular interest to her is campus sustainability, to influence the development of a more inclusive campus that is home to students and other humans, as well as the non-human beings that co-inhabit the places in and around us, while fostering a sense of care and sensitivity for the more-than-human, including water, rain, soil, other sentient beings, plants, dogs, bees, and such.