Rasi Surana

About

Rasi Surana’s design practice is developed on the foundation of humility, respect and adaptability.

• Humility in her role as a facilitator of change where invited or valuable, not as a problem solver
• Respect for all, not conforming to inherent power hierarchies but working across these
• Adaptability in approach, process and output to enable collaboration with people with varied professional and lived experiences

Rasi’s prior work experience was at the intersection of design, behaviour science and public health. She has worked with communities, healthcare professionals, non-profits and governments to tackle challenges at individual, service and system levels. Some of the themes she has worked on include understanding health prevention behaviours, nutrition for children, gaps in policy design and implementation, set up of new sustainable systems to tackle complex challenges. She has worked across India and Sub-Saharan Africa with global teams. UNICEF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and national and local governments are some clients/partners she has worked with.

Through the Service Design masters at the Royal College of Art, Rasi explored the evolving nature of the discipline and its value in creating impact in society. She worked with non profit organisations and local governments, adopting relational and design for research approaches to highlight new ways of understanding historic and complex problems. She worked with Catch 22 and In-house Records to create a new system for evaluating the impact of well-being services on people on probation through better relationships. Her independent research project, Better Borough is an approach to understand the readiness of boroughs to adopt more community led approaches and to enable this in a manner that is valuable and feasible for all.