About
Ms. Nandan is an architect, urban designer,
educator, and leader in community resilience planning and ecological design. She is
co-founder and principal of the award winning design firm thread collective,
founder/current board chair of RETI Center, and adjunct associate professor at
Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and Environment. Her work is at the nexus of where design meets the ecology of
place, and future proofing communities, driven by finding creative solutions to
complex problems. Understanding the past and future of our coastal edges, has
been a life-long passion. The urban condition of our low-lying communities,
rich with ecological potential, offers an often neglected realm where
Ms.Nandan’s work has most recently been focused. Most recently Ms.Nandan has launched the Marine Debris Field Kit, and has been working on BlueBlocks Gardens, a floating human-constructed marshland ecological system created to soften the city’s hard coastal edges.
Credentials: M. Arch, UC Berkeley / WEDG
and LEED Certified, licensed practitioner in NY, NJ and PA.
Joined
April 2024
