About Proseterity
Proseterity (prose for posterity) is a literary and art magazine, that endeavors to bring comfort and discomfort to the world with words, images, ideas, and questions. A 'manifesto' serves as an ethical and visionary compass, and informs the literary and political ethos of this platform. Radically empathetic and critical in thought, the publication wants to disrupt the 'status quo' through the creative force of writers, artists, and thinkers.
Proseterity believes in the power of the written word and art in shaping futures, forging hope, and bringing together minds and lives. A space for those who create with fire, urgency, truth, and passion. The next issue will be 'On Rage'. In the recent past, we have published Issue Zero, Issue One 'On Mediocrity,' and Issue Two 'On Faith. Everything is accessible online.
OurTeam

Aastha
Aastha D. is an independent scholar, curator, designer and educator. She has a background in architecture, with a masters from Columbia University, New York. She works at the intersections of design, culture, and feminist theory. In the recent past, she has held editorial positions at publications in New York and Mumbai, edited books, curated exhibitions and events, and founded Prose with Aastha—a creative writing space that houses literary voices from around the world. She is an intersectional feminist, and her politics reflect in all her work across disciplines and media. Currently, she works between institutes in New York and Mumbai; contributes to publications of design and culture; teaches critical thinking and creative writing; conducts research; and curates publications; all while struggling to write her first book.
Founding Editor

Joseph Sgambati II
With professional degrees in architecture and journalism, Joseph has a desire to explore the intersection of beauty, design, and politics. His work in architecture, interior design, and data visualization has sought to enrich the lives of others with visual communication and storytelling through design. He also engages in dialogue with other artisans, makers, and thinkers through his writing in Metropolis Magazine. When he is not practising, Joseph teaches visual communication, theory, and design at the collegiate level. It is his core belief that individuals are responsible for continued learning to become informed global citizens.
"I was wiping my groceries off before the pandemic."
Art Director

Rohit
Creative Associate
Rohit Rajak is a rising third-year English Literature and Sociology student at Ashoka University. His areas of interest lie in sexuality studies, queer theory, and caste studies. He loves to work in and around theory and believes that the binary between theory and practice is not a firm one.

Former Team Members
Art direction and visual language by Jery John
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Rachel
Amna
Ana
Sonal

Rohit
Creative Associate
Rohit Rajak is a rising third-year English Literature and Sociology student at Ashoka University. His areas of interest lie in sexuality studies, queer theory, and caste studies. He loves to work in and around theory and believes that the binary between theory and practice is not a firm one.


Tripura
Creative Intern
Tripura Chamy is a rising sophomore at Ashoka University, studying English Literature and Sociology. An avid reader, cinegoer and intermediate dramatist, Tripura is interested in learning more about the ways in which art and the world speak to and with one another. Her other interests include photography, and videography.
Saachi
Creative Intern
Saachi Singh is a final year student at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, studying Political Science and Sociology. She is interested in storytelling through different forms of cinema, music, and literature. A theater artist, Saachi also likes to delve into experimental photography and videography to chart out multimedia ways of putting across her ideas.
Meet The Editorial Board

María Alejandra
Linares Trelles
María Alejandra Linares Trelles is an architect from Lima – Peru, currently based in the U.S. She works across design, research, writing, and curation to explore architecture from a sociopolitical perspective. She is interested in addressing themes around ecology, environmental justice, memory, and cultural identities, with a decolonial approach—her research on indigenous representations on cartographies of Peru subverts impositions of conventional maps. In the past, she has designed the new Visitor Center for Machu Picchu archeological site; has worked at the Office for Political Innovation (New York) and studio Llonazamora (Lima). Additionally, she has taught at Pratt Institute (New York), The New School (New York), and has been a Research Scholar at Columbia University. She holds a Professional Degree in Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia University, New York.
She is an amateur photographer, enjoys watching old movies, and buys new books before she finishes reading the ones she already has."

Joseph Sgambati III
With professional degrees in architecture and journalism, Joseph has a desire to explore the intersection of beauty, design, and politics. His work in architecture, interior design, and data visualization has sought to enrich the lives of others with visual communication and storytelling through design. He also engages in dialogue with other artisans, makers, and thinkers through his writing in Metropolis Magazine. When he is not practicing, Joseph teaches visual communication, theory, and design at the collegiate level. It is his core belief that individuals are responsible for continued learning to become informed global citizens.
"I was wiping my groceries off before the pandemic."

Marty Wood
Marty Wood is a writer, critic, and educator interested in the critical intersections between art, architecture, and technology. He has been building communities for over 15 years, founding Resonant City as a platform for urban, aesthetic and political conversations. In 2011, he helped start the Bay Area Public School as a forum for continuing dialogues coming out of Occupy Oakland. Marty studied communications at San Francisco State University and holds an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program. He has published reviews, essays, and criticism in a variety of publications, most recently in Metropolis and The Architect’s Newspaper. He is currently the Director of Communications at Move38 and a visiting professor at Pratt Institute. He lives and works in New York, NY.
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Abubakr Ali
Abubakr Ali is an architect, researcher and writer. Originally from Khartoum Sudan, he is currently based in Washington DC. He holds a Masters Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where he was awarded the Arguments Honor Awards and the William Kinne Travelling Fellowship. His work in Sudan, and after, is rooted in an awareness of the social, economic and technological contexts of place. This meant a rigorous questioning of the medium of construction as a vehicle to enact meaningful change. This line of questioning, plays out possible scenarios of success for architectural interventions while bluntly confronting their efficacy, and challenges prescribed boundaries of the profession. Through multiple mediums including essays, lectures and design projects Abubakr continues his exploration of the relationship between buildings and their inhabitants—testing tenuous boundaries separating work lives and personal lives; using architectural configurations to exacerbate the dominance of one over the other; expanding “architectural knowledge” beyond its physical origins. His writing has been featured in publications such as the New York Review of Architecture.

Sunaina
Sunaina is a designer, architect, researcher and writer whose critical tendencies lie between architecture, theory, history and technology. Having grown up in Ahmedabad, a home to some of the finest Indo-Islamic mosques and tombs and iconic modernist works, with an architect father, she had always been surrounded by conversations and adventures in architecture. But, it took a gap year spent in Cambridge UK, the Tuscan countryside, travelling in Spain and living in Seville, working on a Kibbutz with chickens in Israel, and other misadventures for her to realise that she looks at the world through architecture. Sunaina got her Bachelors in Architecture at CEPT University and later joined the Architectural Association in London to do a Masters in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture, followed by a stint in Switzerland at the studio of architect Mario Botta then did an MS.AAD from Columbia University. She spends time thinking, reading and discussing architecture and better the socio-political forces and ethos that govern and drive the field.

Sohnee Harshey
John 13: 34 NKJV “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
Introduction, page 3; Music and Faith, Jonathan Arnold.