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Practice Ideology
Samanea Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., founded in 2021 and trading as “Sponge Collaborative,” is a consulting, design, and planning firm based in Chennai and Bengaluru, India, and Lyon, France, specialising in the design and implementation of nature-based solutions.
Sponge Collaborative is an interdisciplinary team of landscape architects, urban designers, planners, geospatial analysts, and strategic thinkers. The team collaborates with ecologists, engineers, and social scientists to design open spaces, infrastructure systems, water management regimes, and land development strategies that are resilient to climate change.
Sponge Collaborative adopts a systems approach that centres ecology and community in the design of integrated blue-green infrastructure, sustainable mobility, inclusive housing, vibrant public spaces, and resilient cities.
Sponge Collaborative has led the planning, design, and documentation of one of India’s first climate parks and its largest sponge city park, while also supporting efforts to mainstream nature-based solutions (NbS) in the mountainous areas of six Central Asian countries.
The firm proactively works with public sector, multilateral, private sector, and institutional groups, many of whom have been recurring clients, and collaborates with academic partners on capacity-building initiatives.
