Multidisciplinary designer, creative director & technologist working and living in New York City, USA.
Mischa specializes in immersive environments and creative applications that explores relationships between natural world, technology and human.
She is a founder of Wild Seed Studio and leads technology at Studio Elsewhere.

The Neurodiverse City

An adaptive sound and haptic installation creating a sensory sanctuary in NYC's public city plaza for neurodivergent communities.
ExperienceSoundInstallation

Songs of the Sea: Experiment I

An immersive, spatialized multi channel sound installation that combines projection and sculptural elements into an embodied meditation on oceanic presence and interspecies co-creation.
ExperienceSoundscapeInstallation

Songs of the Sea: Experiments II & III

An ongoing series of small-scale studies exploring sound and water as interfaces and investigating bioacoustics, living material systems, and spatial aquatic listening.
ExperienceSoundResearch

Towards Re-enchantment

A bland between computer graphics and biology that serves an invitation to rediscover the magic of bioluminescence and engage with the pleasures and playfulness of the lost childhood.
ExperienceBio ArtEnvironment

Phantom Limb

An immersive environment that explores themes of immigration, and its effects on the sense of home, belonging and identity.
ExperienceBio ArtEnvironment

Home is Where - Winter in Russia

An audiovisual collaboration with Iris Lune exploring immigrant identity through collected sounds of homeland, transformed into song and video using slime mold and digital media to examine the complex relationship between loss, memory, and the construction of new belonging.
Music Video

Flourish

Mindful exploration of relationships between movement and cognition through a large-scale installation and motion tracking.
ExperienceEnvironmentCreative Direction

Lazarus Children's Abilities Center

In hospital multi-modal immersive, interactive projected environments for children with cerebral palsy where environment itself becomes an active intervention.
ExperienceEnvironmentCreative Direction

Recharge Room Project

Voice activated multi-sensory immersive, responsive environments developed for healthcare workers during the pandemic to support their wellbeing and resilience to trauma and PTSD.
EnvironmentProduct Design & DevelopmentContent

Q-Lab Research Environment

An interactive research environment for comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation therapy of deep brain stimulation patients and surgery candidates across neuropsychiatric disorders.
ExperienceEnvironmentCreative Direction

Mariposa Grove App

An inclusive drawing app that transforms pediatric rehabilitation by enabling children with cerebral palsy to create digital companions using only head movements.
AppliationExperienceProduct Design & Development

Tend

A web-based game platform that delivers multi-sensory stimulation and creates shared experiences between persons living with dementia and their care partners.
ApplicationProduct Design & DevelopmentAI

Recharge Room Dashboard

Web-based monitoring platform for managing 80+ healthcare environments
across North America.
ApplicationProduct Design & Development

Q-Lab Managment System

Real-time control and monitoring platform for neuroscience research lab.
AppliationProduct Design & Development

Therminator Photoooth

An interactive thermal imaging photobooth that transformed industrial FLIR technology into playful experience for a trade show attendees.
ExperienceProduct Design & Development

Heartfelt

A large-scale interactive installation where human touch becomes light, transforming festival-goers into conductors of a luminous network that visualizes human connection.
ExperienceInstallationHardware

Liturgy

An experimental dance performance where AI worships its human creators, explored through sensor-enabled choreography.
ExperienceDanceAI

Octocom

A large scale interactive installation that explores alternative methods of communication by requiring participants to synchronize their biofeedback.
ExperienceInstallationEnvironmentBio Art

Blink Blink

A new category of educational toys that merged STEM learning with arts and crafts.
Product DesignhardwareArt

Red Bull Concept Packaging

A packaging concept developed during Red Bull Radical that transforms traditional beverage packaging into interactive gaming experiences.
Product Design

Screwed

Speculative data visualization sculpture that examines humanity's environmental impact through a temporal lens of ecological recovery.
Speculative Data VizSculptureArt

People & Rhythms

A photo exhibit that explored the dynamic relationships between architecture, human movement, and urban spaces.
CurratorialExhibition