https://nashinmahtani.com Nashin Mahtani Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:00:51 +0000 https://nashinmahtani.com en https://nashinmahtani.com/Bio Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:53:32 +0000 Nashin Mahtani https://nashinmahtani.com/Bio NASHIN MAHTANI humanitarian designer architect / researcher / theorist / artist / activistadvocating for social &amp; environmental justice There is much to learn from paying attention to the many ways by whichpeople 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. <img width="1073" height="1073" width_o="1073" height_o="1073" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c76e728fe26b8f170c5996052c2517f242d99c2afe1e7a66ae623f54a9ad539/IMG_20171201_084702.jpg" data-mid="133190444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c76e728fe26b8f170c5996052c2517f242d99c2afe1e7a66ae623f54a9ad539/IMG_20171201_084702.jpg" /> Nashin Mahtani is the director of Yayasan Peta Bencana (Disaster Map Foundation), a non-profit developing humanitarian technologies for community-led disaster risk reduction since 2017, and founder of the award-winning Situational Intelligence Open Source Software, supporting communities facing increasing climate risk. . She led the expansion of the life-saving plaform PetaBencana.id, from a city-scale flood mapping platform to a real-time multi-hazard mapping platform serving over 350 million people in South East Asia. She then developed a contextually-sensitive, research-design strategy to adapt and scale the software across diverse geographies, leading its expansion and operational success in multiple countries. In 2019, she founded MapaKalamidad.ph. Under her leadership, the software has matured into an enterprise-level disaster management tool, launching Indonesia’s first real-time disaster notification service and an innovative peer-to-peer resource-sharing system. In 2024, she founded the Climate Emergency Software Alliance to facilitate international coordination and adoption of the software.&nbsp;Supporting the development of one of the largest open source software projects for climate adaptation, her activism is driven by theory, scholarship and ethnographic research. With a background in architecture, Nashin’s applied and research investigations center around water polities and infrastructures, communication and media philosophies, and epigenetic adaptations. She is also principal co-investigator of MERA, a research and design collective investigating the future of governance structures foregrounded in ecological homeostasis. In 2025 she was recognized by the United Nations as a Rising Star in Disaster Risk Reduction and as an Obama Leader. 2021 she was recognized by Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 for her contributions to the region's social issues. Nashin was also one of five global semi-finalists for the prestigious Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award in 2019, listed as a Southeast Asian Women Leader by YSEALI in 2020, and recognized as a Women Innovator by the Information Society Innovation Fund in 2018.&nbsp; She has been featured in outlets such as the BBC, Economist, Forbes, Tatler, OECD. Nashin’s written, design, and film work, has been widely published in numerous journals and exhibited across various international venues. She is a frequent speaker and presenter, and continues to be engaged as a guest lecturer with schools and universities globally.Nashin completed her Masters of Architecture (M.Arch '15) and Bachelors of Architectural Studies (BAS '14) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has previously worked as an architect in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, &amp; Toronto. 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 (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.&nbsp; 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 &amp; 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? &nbsp; 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: &nbsp; Is “life” a question? b: &nbsp; You could take it as one. a: &nbsp; What do you think? &nbsp; 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]