ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT AAYUSHI GUPTA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
O.P. Jindal Global University | Sonipat, India | Advancing SDG 9 & UNAI 9
" I am extremely excited to be a part of Millennium Fellowship to interact with not just people of various backgrounds whose views can give me a completely different insight for my project, but also various ideas, solutions and other projects. I believe that Millennium Fellowship gives me an opportunity to collaborate with people with similar aspirations and people whose experiences will enrich the understanding of my own. I am thrilled to receive a platform that will help me make an impact in the world for the themes that I feel very strongly about. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Breaking down, Ship Breaking down: Exploring ship demolition practices
The project aims to explore the ship breaking practices that create extremely inhumane conditions for workers yet constitute a large percentage of steel production. It focuses on creating awareness regarding the high number of fatalities in this industry while starting a conversation on the sustainability of this industry in the context of of south asia particularly.
About the Millennium Fellow
Aayushi Gupta is a young architecture student, studying at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Sonepat. Through her inter disciplinary education, she has developed a keen interest in spatiality, hierarchies and practices. She aspires to work at the intersection of community, sustainability and space. Additionally she has analyzed material memory, politics of representation and performance through her work with photo archives, communication firms and surrealist art. She intends to make an impact by considering the intersection of inter disciplinary areas and their relationship to the environment and larger picture of the world.
