Rhiarna Dhaliwal is a British-Indian spatial designer, researcher and educator based in London. Her work exists at the intersection of environmental geo-politics, technology and visual language. Rhiarna currently co-leads the bachelors design studio, Studio Digital Native at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL since 2022 and is co-founder of interdisciplinary design collective Xcessive Aesthetics. Rhiarna has previously taught at the Royal College of Art, London.

Xcessive Aesthetics is an all-female interdisciplinary design collective exploring data and alternate realities through spatial installations. XA was founded in 2019 with the idea of combining spatial design and digital tools in unconventional ways, on the one hand to explore the hidden biases behind emerging technologies, and on the other to create accessible and playful public installations that spark digital and physical interactions.

Xcessive Aesthetics has exhibited installations in major cultural institutions such as the Wellcome Collection (2024) and Victoria and Albert Museum (2022) in London and the Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires (2022), has participated in design festivals such as Transmediale (2023), London Design Festival (2022) and Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial (2022) and has been featured in publications such as Arch+, The Architects’ Journal and Terraforma Journal. Members from the collective currently lead a Bachelors design studio at Design Academy Eindhoven titled Studio Digital Native. XA was founded by six members based in London and internationally.