Envisioning Resilient Futures through Interdisciplinary Research & Design
Mission
We must face the world’s interdependent challenges.
While the effects of climate change threaten cities and ecosystems, humanity’s inaction set a legacy of destruction in our interference on Earth’s processes. As we gain disruptive capacity, we must guide our efforts towards a restorative future.
Approach
At Nawi, we embrace the responsibility to our planet.
We operate in the intersection of science, architecture, urbanism, and landscape by collaborating with designers, policy-makers, and researchers. With our work, we aim to build a safe, sensitive, and sustainable relationship of humanity with Earth.
Services
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Research-based design and planning services in the building, city, region, and territory scale, dealing with:
Climate Adaptation & Mitigation.
Ecosystem Regeneration & NbS (Nature-based Solutions).
Agro-Urban Challenges.
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Graphical representation services tailored for:
Research papers and thesis.
Policy documents.
Design projects.
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Research in the interdependencies of the built environment, nature, society, and climate, through:
Critical mapping.
Literature review.
Prototyping.
Core values
We advocate for renewable and regenerative practices.
Sustainability
We work together with life and geochemical processes.
Interdependency
We include all forms of life as participants in our designs.
Sensitivity
We aim to ensure secure and healthy living environments.
Safety
We embrace communities and plural cosmologies.
Diversity
About
Ñawi (in Quechua) has a variety of meanings referring to “eyes”, “vision”, and “attitude”. It is about the capacity of seeing beyond the obvious, perceiving the world in a deeper way while listening to your spirit’s voice. A sense that leads us to take a position upon what we see and feel-think, “senti-pensar”, a call of action.
Founded by Fabio Alzate Martinez, MSc in Urbanism TU Delft (Cum Laude), Nawi is a combination of sensitive perceptions and expertises, born to weave together talents that never dare to feel the world. We operate as a network of project-based collaborations that aim to build a better world.