Parsons School of Design, Photography, MFA, 2025
Vasudev Vashisht is a lens-based creative researcher-practitioner combining analog, digital, and alternative processes to question and understand the contemporary natural landscape. Vasudev is a graduate student in the Photography School at Parsons School of Design and is an awardee of the Parsons Student Research Award. He has worked as a software and computer programming tutor with the University Learning Center. He is currently researching a photography-based climate justice project in the mining regions of the Peruvian Andes to address environmental and social challenges.
As the Costing Analysis Design Fellow, Vasudev will design and develop a series of structured video tutorials focused on communicating the costing methodology used by the IRC. The content of the tutorials will be aimed at other NGOs who are interested in conducting activity-level cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses, and will cover topics such as: what it takes to run a cost-efficiency analysis, and how to apply learnings from cost analysis. The IRC has led the way in producing cost evidence in the humanitarian sector using a standardized methodology, however without consistent use of standardized methods, the comparability of data will remain limited. Vasudev’s work will play a crucial role in supporting the comparability of data so that humanitarian programs can evaluate which interventions are more cost-efficient and cost-effective than others, and thus provide greater impact at scale.