Sanjai Madushanth

Sanjai Madushanth is a landscape architecture graduate whose work engages with the intersection of ecological systems, community practices, and material innovation, with a particular focus on vulnerable coastal environments. Grounded in observations from Valaipadu, a coastal village in northern Sri Lanka, his research identifies a critical gap between short-term, production-driven livelihoods and the broader understanding of dynamic coastal ecologies, resulting in recurring exposure to climate-related risks. Moving beyond conventional “defensive” strategies such as hard infrastructural barriers, his approach advocates for a shift toward adaptive landscape systems that work with, rather than against, natural processes. Within the Bio Design Lab framework, he seeks to explore how bio-based materials such as seaweed can be integrated into a multi-scalar design methodology, linking territorial resilience with localized material production. His contribution aims to reinterpret coastal resources as active agents in shaping socio-ecological resilience, bridging macro-scale landscape strategies with micro-scale material experimentation to propose a more responsive and regenerative model for living coastal systems.