Tandis Shoushtary

Designer & Educator

Tandis Shoushtary is a designer and educator working across data visualization, interaction design, and motion graphics. Her practice moves between journalism, product design, and speculative research, with a committed focus on how data shapes public understanding. She has spent the last several years designing visual systems and interactive experiences for The New York Times, Adobe, and a range of civic and cultural institutions in New York and Berlin. She’s also an Adjunct Professor of Data Visualization at The Cooper Union, where she focuses on accessible interaction design, systems thinking, and narrative approaches to working with data.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.