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Khyati Saraf

Landscape Architect

W: www.khyatisaraf.com

Khyati Saraf is a landscape architect currently based in Cambridge, MA, USA. Born and brought up in New Delhi, she is particularly attuned to the role of social-spatial drivers and geopolitics that produce public space and hinterland landscapes. Her recent research work investigates the relationships between fisherfolk and the mega port at Kandla, Gujarat. Teasing out the regulatory frameworks and spatial dispossession by which communities are disenfranchised through an explicit reframing of the landscape. In March 2019, this work was exhibited at Khoj, New Delhi.

Her work as a landscape professional spans a wide range of scales and geographies, from small residential gardens, institutional and campus projects to large infrastructural landscapes. She currently practices at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

She is a member of the design collective LANDKunst and a co-founder of Bil-Kul. In 2019, she was a Digital Earth Fellow and in 2017, a Metro Manila Civic Innovation Fellow, travelling to Manila to work with the local city government to bring issues of flooding, ecology, and civic engagement to the fore. In 2016 she was recognized as a ‘Young Leader in Design’ in landscape architecture in the US.

Khyati earned her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture of Sushant School of Art and Architecture, New Delhi.