botanical illustrator and
artistic researcher
Alisha Dutt Islam works between Kolkata, India and Zurich, Switzerland. With a background in teaching art and design as tools for education and mediation, her work invites reflection on origins, identity, borders, belonging, and the deep interconnectedness of all life forms.
Dutt holds a BA in Design Communication from the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and an MA in Fine Arts and a MA in Transdisciplinary Studies from the Zurich University of the Arts.
She has taught as visiting faculty at École Intuit Lab in Kolkata and as a scientific assistant at the Sukkulenten-Sammlung, Zurich. She is also the co-founder of Terravibe: Flüstern aus der Erde, an eco-feminist collective exploring relationships between land, voice, and resistance.
Since 2026 she is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) ETH Zurich.
mail: alishaduttislam@gmail.com
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