Publications





2025

Mahtani, N. “When the warnings don’t work, but the Wi-Fi does: How communities are rewriting the future of climate response.” Prevention Web United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) invited guest editorial, 27 June 2025.

Mahtani, N. “Neuroplasticity and other Matters of the Brain: Nashin Mahtani in Conversation with Junichi Ushiba,” in Decapitated Economies: Intercalations 5, forthcoming 2025.

2024

Mahtani, Nashin. “To Dream Like A River: Wet Politics for Turbulent Worlds,” in North Sea Rising: A Case for Water-Based Commons, edited by Nabi Agzamov and Francesca Vanelli.  (Prague: Vi Per Gallery), 2024.

2022

Mahtani, Nashin, Francesco Brusaporco, and Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang. "A Youth Perspective To Revive The G20: Double Down On Climate". The Jakarta Post, September 2022.

Mahtani, N. “Torrential Urbanism and the Future Subjunctive,” in Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel Barber, and Anton Vidokle.

2021

Mahtani, N. “Can #SelfiesSaveLives? Humanitarian chat-bots help disaster response in Southeast Asia,” OECD Invited Guest Editorial, September 2021.

2020

There is No Capital: Reflections on Enthusiasm & Abandonment in Indonesia,” in KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture 28, November 2020.

Mahtani, N. “Torrential Urbanism and the Future Subjunctive.” e-flux Architecture. September 2020.

Holderness, T. and N. Mahtani. “Multiperspectival Cartographies for Democratic Climate Adaptation,” Landscape Architecture Frontier Journal 8, no. 3, June 2020.

2019

"The Multiple Must Be Made: Software for the City Yet to Come," in Incomplete Urbanism (Singapore: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019).

2018

"Neuroecologies of Attention & Intelligence in the Megacity," in Perspecta 51: Media, edited by Shayari de Silva, Dante Furioso and Samantha Jaff  (Yale Journal of Architecture, 2018).

2017

Mahtani, Nashin. “Impressions of Disaster: Neuroscience, Design, and Attention in Post-Internet Indonesia.” e-flux Architecture. August, 2017.

2015

Mahtani, Nashin. Pulsing Territories, Perpetual Frontiers. (Waterloo: University of Waterloo, 2015)

English, Elizabeth, Carol Friedland, Nashin Mahtani, and Fatemeh Orooji. “A New Approach to Combined Flood and Wind Mitigation for Hurricane Damage Prevention.” Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE 14), Porto Alegre, Brazil. June, 2015.



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