The Future of EcoResponsive Environments w/ Prachi Rampuria and Soham De
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We are thrilled to welcome architectural and urban designers, academics and authors of new book EcoResponsive Environments: A Framework for Settlement Design Prachi Rampuria and Soham De for an important conversation on design in the Anthropocene age.
After the talk we will have plenty of time for Q+A. Those enrolled in our Place Futures and Speculative Design courses will also be invited to stay for a mini workshop with Soham and Prachi.
A word from our speakers:
"The book addresses the overarching crisis of the Anthropocene age, by developing a comprehensive yet pragmatic multi-scalar framework for settlement design that is responsive to fundamental human needs whilst preserving the planet’s natural ecosystems. We call this EcoResponsive Design.
We certainly don’t have all the answers, but hope for it to be a vehicle to support industry-wide collective efforts and design debate on enhancing health and wellbeing through integrated and sustainable placemaking. Therefore, we warmly invite your presence, thoughts, reflections, sharing and learning from collective experiences and opportunities for deep collaboration!"
Come explore the future of environmental design with us!
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:
Soham:
With a background in architecture and urban design, Soham is driven by solutions that underpin a circular economy and embrace a holistic approach to contextual design and place identity. Since 2018, he is a co-founding director at EcoResponsive Environments, an award-winning urban design and architectural practice based in London with a singular mission: we design to support health and wellbeing, today and for future generations. Recent projects include a modern day Garden City masterplan for a 45-ha expansion site to the north of Letchworth, UK for 900 new homes, amenities, and a primary school; a masterplan for regenerating the 60-acre Heath Business and Technical Park in Runcorn, UK as a mixed used zero-carbon neighbourhood; and public realm regeneration strategy for two council-owned housing estates in Tower Hamlets, London. The Heath Park masterplan won the National Urban Design Award 2023 in ‘Small/mid-scale masterplan’ category; Pineapple Award 2022 in ‘Future Place’ category; and was recognised by the UK Government as one of 35 ‘GreenInnovation’ schemes in 2021. Since 2017, he has been teaching on the BA and MA Urban Design courses at Oxford Brookes University. He is also a visual artist and has undertaken several exhibitions and illustration of books.
Prachi:
Prachi is passionate about places and place-making. She studied architecture in India, followed by a Masters in Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University. Early career influences include being trained at Sangath; studio of the Pritzker-prize and RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner architect B.V. Doshi. As an urban designer, she has led multi-disciplinary teams on complex masterplanning and urban regeneration projects of diverse scales and typologies in the UK, the Middle-East and India. Her interest lies in developing a transdisciplinary multi scalar design approach; from strategic master planning down to the sensory manifestation of materiality in contemporary yet locally-distinctive ways, optimally balancing the long-term environmental and social values with short-term financial value. In 2018, with Soham De, she co-founded the award-winning London-based design practice EcoResponsive Environments, best known for innovation in sustainable urbanism, strategic masterplanning and architectural design. She teaches at Oxford Brookes University’s MA in Urban Design course as an Associate Lecturer. She also sits on multiple Quality Review Panels and is a Design Council Expert.
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The Future of EcoResponsive Environments w/ Prachi Rampuria and Soham De