Urban Living Room

Tatia Kiknadze and Sucheta Bhattacharyya are spatial practitioners currently pursuing their Master’s in Architecture Typology at Technische Universität Berlin. Their collaborative practice explores how care, ritual, and informal acts of making space can foster belonging in contexts marked by migration, precarity, and social transformation.

Tatia is originally from Georgia and has worked across architectural offices in Tbilisi, Switzerland, and Berlin. Alongside her architectural training, she brings a strong background in visual communication, with extensive experience in storytelling, editorial design, and illustration. Her work often translates spatial research into accessible, tactile formats: toolkits, zines, or performative installations. She has participated in international workshops in Egypt, Tunisia, and Germany, where she engaged with participatory design, heritage mapping, and collective storytelling.

Sucheta, originally from India, has worked on community-based architecture projects focused on local materials and traditional building practices. Her work is shaped by lived experience in diverse urban and rural contexts across India, where she has explored how architecture can support social cohesion and environmental responsiveness. She has participated in design-build studios and international workshops in Tunisia and Germany, deepening her interest in architecture as a site of negotiation and care.

Together, they operate with a shared sensitivity to spatial justice, cultural narratives, and the subtle practices that sustain everyday life. Their methods include site-based observation, visual mapping, and collective engagement. They see architecture not only as the design of physical structures but as a process of listening, hosting, and translating lived experience into spatial expression. Their collaboration is grounded in values of reciprocity, adaptability, and slow, attentive research.