Nirmal Tulsidas KISHNANI (Dr)
Associate Professor|Co-Programme Director, MSc ISD (Educator Track)
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566
- TEL:
- +65 91472866
- EMAIL:
- akintk@nus.edu.sg
Teaching Areas
- Principles of sustainable design (Master of Architecture, MSc Integrated Sustainable Design)
- Systems thinking (Master of Architecture, MSc Integrated Sustainable Design)
Biography
Nirmal Kishnani is Associate Professor at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (NUS) where is Programme Director of the Master of Science, Integrated Sustainable Design. He teaches sustainable design and researches into how emerging principles of socio-ecological thinking translate to new pathways for practitioners in Asia. He has sat on several advisory panels in China, Singapore and Vietnam shaping policy and formulating guidelines that affect design practice. Collaborating with industry, he has created platforms for reporting forward-thinking projects and ideas, such as the FuturArc magazine and FuturArc Green Leadership Award. From 2015 to 2017, he was Assistant Dean and, later, Vice Dean, and was tasked with shaping the new net-zero energy building for the School which was completed in 2018. His book – Greening Asia: Emerging Principles for Sustainable Architecture (2012) – critiqued the Green movement in Asia and postulated a new principles for design thinking. His newest book – Ecopuncture: Transforming Architecture and Urbanism in Asia (2019) – moves the discourse towards regenerative thinking and is accompanied by a video documentary.
Research Areas/Specialisations
Sustainable design and development
Tropical architecture and environmentalism in SE Asia
Systems thinking and complex problems
Form (as pathway in socio-ecological design)
More Information
www.greeningasiabook.com
www.ecopuncture-asia.com (from end 2019)
