Katya Danziger — Designer, Theorist

Hello! My name is Katya Danziger.  I am a Russian-American working at the intersection of art, culture, and global systems. My work examines contemporary visual culture within modernist transnational contexts.

I am currently an M.A. candidate in the Global Thought program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, offered by the Committee on Global Thought. My research develops interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding abstraction and the institutional conditions that shape cultural production. I write about these ideas and Russian avante-gardeism on Substack.

I hold a degree in Transdisciplinary Design from the School of Design Strategies @ Parsons School of Design, where I explored design as a vehicle for social and cultural transformation.

My intellectual formation has also been shaped by four years of study and service within a global Buddhist nonprofit. I endeavor to bring the Buddhist view of the wisdom and compassion all living beings inherently possess into everything I d0- professionally and academically.



Select Projects

Full portfolio available by request.


Quantum Internet Futures
The Dragon’s Gift
Quantum Meditations on Death
The Red Thread of Fate (of Design)
AI, Synthetic Media & Elections Around the World
Optical Unconscious: Journal of Emergent Thought



If you find synergies in our work and mission, please don’t hesitate to reach out: send me a message or find me on BlueSky @katyadanziger.