VERS [vurs]; VERS.collab; VERSatile Collaborations
VERS is an award winning art collaborative and design studio founded by Chelsea Jno Baptiste, Savannah Cheung, and Sahil Mohan. At VERS, we dissect things; we extrapolate objects, cultures and identities uncovering untold stories and connections that allow us to imagine them in new ways. Our work and research spans the disciplines of public art, architecture, fashion, technology, creative direction, and academia. Our clients include ROCNation, Glamour UK, Christina Aguilera, Harper’s Bazaar, Paper Magazine, Boston Planning Department, and the Downtown Boston Improvement District.
Chelsea Jno Baptiste
Chelsea is an architectural designer, educator, and design strategist whose work explores the intersection of architecture, culture, and experiential environments. Her practice focuses on how spatial systems, materials, and narrative can shape identity and public experience.
She is a founder of VERS, a multidisciplinary design studio that develops architectural installations, spatial brand environments, and experimental design projects that bridge architecture, fashion, and cultural infrastructure.
Chelsea holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where her work examined the role of architecture in shaping public life and spatial equity. Her research and design investigations explore material systems, façade interventions, and public-facing architectural environments that function as both infrastructure and cultural expression.
Alongside her design practice, Chelsea teaches university architecture and design studios, mentoring emerging designers while advancing research on housing, spatial systems, and the cultural role of the built environment.
Savannah Cheung
Savannah is a designer and researcher whose work examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of Chinese identity — exploring how diasporic experience, collective memory, and inherited visual languages accumulate in built and designed form.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her practice moves between critical making, cultural inquiry, and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on bricolage as both method and sensibility.
Cheung is a co-founder of VERS, an interdisciplinary design collective whose work has been exhibited and published internationally, with projects spanning fashion, installation, and spatial practice.
Sahil Mohan
Sahil is an architectural designer, computational designer, and educator. He holds a Master of Architecture from MIT under a graduate fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a Computational New Media Certificate from UC Berkeley where he was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal given to graduating architecture students who demonstrate exceptional leadership, willing service to their school, and promise of professional merit.
He teaches design foundation and visualization studios at the graduate level at the Boston Architectural College and the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. His research and practice are organized around a central claim: that architecture has learned to draw hard boundaries because discontinuity is what capital can metabolize — and that a reorientation toward gradient, field, and continuity offers a more honest relationship between building and ground, structure and environment, interior and exterior. This line of inquiry draws on Hindu philosophy and finds its expression in his academic research which centers on gradient-based calculus as it relates to ecology and form, symbolic curvature analysis, and the development of Gradient3D, a computational design environment using GPU raymarching and signed distance fields.
He is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary design collective VERS and a collaborator with Terreform ONE, where his practice engages bioremediation, public art, and material ecology.