Nandita Bijur

Senior Innovation Designer

Innovation

Nandita is a Senior Innovation Designer at SHS. In this role, she leads participatory research and design with key stakeholders, especially people with lived experience of the challenges she’s designing for, to develop strategies for systemic change in the housing sector. She brings her expertise in project management, facilitating design research processes (interviews, co-design workshops, prototyping sessions, etc.), and sense-making and synthesis.

With a focus on equity-centred design research, Nandita has a keen interest in understanding the complexities of a system and building structures and processes for people and communities to design ways to make it better.

Nandita is committed to building an equity lens at every step of the design process. She is passionate about using her experience doing service design and design research to work towards systemic change in housing.

Current Work

Nandita is currently working on designing an innovative housing model that enables residents to access necessary supports, participate in decision-making, and earn financial benefits.

Education

Master of Science, Building and Urban Design in Development (University College London)

Bachelor of Social Sciences, International Development and Globalization (University of Ottawa)

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77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

At SHS we acknowledge the lands we are on are the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the location of our office in Toronto is covered by Treaty 13. In our work, we strive to continually reflect on our relationship to the land we are currently inhabiting and how our role as actors in the housing system can support the reconciliation process.