PRACHI RAMPURIA

In 2019, Prachi co-founded EcoResponsive Environments, an award-winning urban design and architectural practice with a singular mission: using a complex-systems approach, they design to support health and wellbeing for today and future generations. Their Heath Park masterplan project – a mixed-use zero-carbon neighbourhood – was selected by the UK Government as one of ‘35 Green Innovation Schemes’ in 2021. It won a ‘Future Place’ Pineapple Award in 2022 and a National Urban Design Award in 2023.With over 13 years of experience in the UK, Prachi has led multi-disciplinary teams in developing strategic visions, illustrative masterplans, planning applications, feasibility studies, and public realm regeneration projects facilitated and underpinned by stakeholder engagement. She has also co-authored a book titled ‘EcoResponsive Environments’ published by Routledge. It provides a multi-scalar framework for settlement design rooted in systems thinking. It cuts across a wide spectrum of professional disciplines, synthesising the diffuse literature available on sustainable and regenerative design into a practical framework for making design decisions, fostering collaborations between all development stakeholders.
Prachi is part of Design Council’s Expert Network, teaches at Brookes University and sits on multiple Quality Review Panels, including Design South East, Harlow & Gilston Garden Town DRP, Taunton & Somerset West DRP, Barnet DRP and Oxford DRP.