https://nashinmahtani.com Nashin Mahtani Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:00:51 +0000 https://nashinmahtani.com en https://nashinmahtani.com/Home Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:53:32 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Home NASHIN MAHTANI humanitarian designer architect / researcher / theorist / artist / activistadvocating for social & environmental justice There is much to learn from paying attention to the many ways by which people reposition themselves to make everyday life possible in the face of compounded vulnerabilities  and engaging in such challenges from a posture of joy, curiousity, generosity, and collectivity. https://nashinmahtani.com/Climate-Adaptation Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:53:33 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Climate-Adaptation Open Source Software for Community-led Climate Adaptation︎ cesaglobal.org ︎ https://info.petabencana.id ︎ https://mapakalamidad.ph What is the future of urbanism? Cities that survive will be driven by infrastructures that are adaptive, and collectively built and maintained. We still have time to reroute planetary computation for the production of alternate urban futures and enable the evolution of thriving, just, equitable human societies for all. Here’s how we’ve been revolutionizing community-led climate adaptation in South East Asia: https://nashinmahtani.com/Future-of-governance Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:53:33 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Future-of-governance Future of governance in a changing climate︎ MERA MERA (noun, Russian мера) 1. Unit of measure for stretching or capacity; 2. Border, limit, boundary, size; 3. Means for achievement of any purposeHow might we define alternative spatial and temporal frameworks of governance to more consistently link the deep time and shifting dynamics of ecological systems with the micro-scales of human temporal perception? Mera is an ongoing design research project, investigating the future of governance structures foregrounded in ecological homeostasis. The project draws from transdisciplinary investigations of watershed management to speculate on littoral structures of governance in moving towards social and climate justice.  As a preliminary case study, the project explores the past, present and potential futures of the Caspian region. The project was conceived during the team's time as researchers in the New Normal Program at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture & Design. https://nashinmahtani.com/Architecture-of-the-Brain Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:53:34 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Architecture-of-the-Brain Architecture of the Brain︎ watch trailer on vimeo The capacities for resistance that discoveries in neuroplasticity unveil, calls into question the responsibilities for claiming authorship in recovering from an apathetic world exhausted by asymmetric forms of algorithmic governance. What potentials for creativity lie in neuroplasticity and how do contemporary tools of exo-cephalization afford unprecedented capacities to creatively realign modalities of thought towards practices of care?   The Architecture of the Brain examines how pathbreaking discoveries in contemporary neuroscientific research are changing the way we understand spatiality, memory, protention, and neuroplasticity. Through ethnographic narratives developed with scientists, artists, design critics, and scholars, the forthcoming exhibition will advance a public discourse about privacy, technology, democracy, and the role of architecture within the register of cognitive capitalism. https://nashinmahtani.com/Information-Visualization Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:54:01 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Information-Visualization Information Visualization [page under construction] https://nashinmahtani.com/science-Communication Wed, 02 Feb 2022 04:59:02 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/science-Communication Peat Fires and Palm Oil - an introduction︎ The World as Forest Exhibition a:   Is “life” a question? b:   You could take it as one. a:   What do you think?   https://nashinmahtani.com/Infrastructure-Maintenance Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:00:51 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Infrastructure-Maintenance Infrastructure Maintenance︎ Pulsing Territories, Perpetual Frontiers [page under construction]