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Nandini Goel

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Nandini is currently pursuing her M.Arch at MIT.

She completed her B.Arch (Hons) and RIBA Part I at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, where her culminating research paper explored urban strategies to design for informal architecture in global megacities. This paper eventually became a research proposal that was shortlisted in the top 5 out of 500 entries worldwide for the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship.

She has previously worked on professional projects relating to cultural heritage, sensory architecture, materials exploration, as well as preservation, in New Delhi, Glasgow, and London. These have included the National Museum in Delhi and the Ganga Restoration project with INTACH, the Ceramophone as part of Clerkenwell Design Week with SAAWorkshop, and an exhibition on the construction industry’s impact on the climate as part of COP26 with Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN). In 2023, she was awarded a full scholarship to attend a research workshop in the Brazilian Amazon, an experience that shaped a lot of her current interests.

At present, she is interested in researching the redesign of the materials economy and material non-extractive techniques. Her approach is largely focused on explorations that span across different scales of systems – from the object to the city to the planetary – and deal with memory, temporality, and cultural sustainability. She believes that technology is a fractal of nature and is testing this idea through an independent project that is currently in progress.