Gita Nandan

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.

April 2024