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Swinal Samant is a Passionate Educator, Researcher and Author; Sustainability, Vertical Urbanism and Regenerative Design Expert; Systems Thinker; Circularity and Carbon Story Strategist.

Swinal is an award winning academic whose experience of over 25 years spans across diverse contexts, She has led academic and research programs in the UK and Singapore, and has collaborated with top institutions in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Swinal is the author of the book “Weaving Webs: Empowering and Humane” and she has co-authored the book “Form Intelligence: Reimagining the Industrial Landscape for a Circular Economy”.

As an international expert on Sustainability, Swinal has been featured in the CNA Documentary “Climate For Change: Closing The Loop”. She has been an invited speaker at the World Bank, and Chaired the panel “Urban-Scale Responses in the Pandemic Recovery” at the CTBUH International Conference 2020. She has been a panellist at the ARCHIFEST “Women in Architecture” forum and represented NUS at the UNDP’s “UNLEASH 2018 Global Innovation Lab” in Singapore. Swinal is an expert panellist at the WOHA Futures Network; she has hosted several webinars comprising international multidisciplinary experts, and has presented research papers at conferences, industry summits and educational institutions across the world.

Her research and design teaching focuses on environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality at building and urban scales. Tackling the imminent issues of resource depletion, ecological footprint and waste generation associated with linear economies, her research argues for systems thinking, regenerative design and circularity. She examines the implications of eliminating carbon emisssions, specifically on architectural form, typologies, materiality and systems selection\integration. Her research on vertical urban spaces in the context of high density Asian Cities advocates for 3d planning, hybridity and systems integration. She has published several journal articles and book chapters; she has been an editorial referee and board member for international journals and conferences, and has reviewed funding bids and book proposals.

Swinal has been a guest critic, an external reviewer and sat on jury panels for international student design competitions for Universities, the CTBUH and BCA (Singapore). Swinal is actively engaged with the CTBUH as a member of its Regional Committee (Singapore); and its Urban Habitat/Urban Design; Expert Peer Review; and the Tall Building Academic & Teaching Committees. Her students’ work is featured in exhibitions and publications, and is recognised by several notable awards: Solar Decathlon, RIBA (EM), Vertical Cities Asia and Dezeen.

Swinal Samant is a Passionate Educator, Researcher and Author; Sustainability, Vertical Urbanism and Regenerative Design Expert; Systems Thinker; Circularity and Carbon Story Strategist.

Swinal is an award winning academic whose experience of over 25 years spans across diverse contexts, She has led academic and research programs in the UK and Singapore, and has collaborated with top institutions in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Swinal is the author of the book “Weaving Webs: Empowering and Humane” and she has co-authored the book “Form Intelligence: Reimagining the Industrial Landscape for a Circular Economy”.

As an international expert on Sustainability, Swinal has been featured in the CNA Documentary “Climate For Change: Closing The Loop”. She has been an invited speaker at the World Bank, and Chaired the panel “Urban-Scale Responses in the Pandemic Recovery” at the CTBUH…

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