Chandrani is a landscape architect with fifteen years of professional consulting experience in landscape architecture and urban design. Her interest includes landscape ecology, nature-based solutions, and landscape urbanism. She completed MLA from Harvard University and a B.Arch from Jadavpur University. She is a LEED Accredited Professional in neighbourhood development.
Chandrani Chakrabarti is a landscape architect with over ten years of professional consulting experience in landscape architecture and urban design. Chandrani s teaching and research interests include landscape ecology, productive landscapes, and landscape urbanism. She has been associated with CEPT University since 2018, and currently serves as Program Coordinator, Master of Landscape Architecture. Previously, Chandrani worked as a Senior Associate at Jerde Partnership Inc. in Los Angeles. There, she led commercial mixed use development projects primarily in the US, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Chandrani has a Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) degree from Jadavpur University.
Blue – green infrastructure in urban design
Nature-based solutions in landscape system
Urban Waterfronts — S‑2025
Beating the Urban Heat — S‑2025
Landscape Urbanism — S‑2025
Introduction to Landscape and Ecology — S‑2025
Advanced Landscape Theory — M‑2025
Water Plus — M‑2025
Landscape in Housing Design — S‑2024
Water Plus Studio — M‑2024
Conference
Water-Resilient Urban Futures: Scenario-Based Visual MatricesCities of Care Conference, University of Toronto India Foundation, IIT Madras Research Park
Assessing the People-Resource Relationships in Redevelopment Projects around Urban Waters15thISOLA Conference, Bhopal, 2024
Embracing Green Infrastructure: A Ground-Up Adaptation of Nature-Based Solutions in South Asian CitiesInternational Conference on Urban Affairs, New York, 2024
Framework for prioritising water body restoration: a context of Indian populated cities with climate challengesAESOP Annual Congress 2025
Nature based Solutions for the Un-altered Ecosystems : Addressing Vacant Lands as a typological study in Ahmedabad through GIS MethodsUC2024, ESRI India user conference
Reviving the lostECLAS2025 agriCULTURAL landscape
Life in Parks: A South Asian PerspectiveFuture Proof Management of Public Spaces: I.A.M. Public Space, Wageningen University & Research
Scaling Up, Scaling Deep: Negotiating Scales for Productive Urban LandscapesECLAS Conference: Scales of Change
Conference Proceedings
Scaling up, scaling deep: Negotiating scales for productive urban landscapesChandrani Chakrabarti, Mansi ShahECLAS — European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools – Scales of change
Book Chapter
Reimagining Pedagogy in Architectural Conservation and Landscape: Integrating Ecological and Feminist Materialist Approaches for the AnthropoceneChandrani Chakrabarti, Sonal MithalCollective Pedagogies for an Anti-Disciplinary Design Education