Nadia Ilkhom

Studio tutor for the infrastructure and resilience weeks — the networks, and then whatever breaks them.

A two-ink portrait in flat gold and black: a round, cream-toned angular bust with a chin-length bob, round glasses and a high roll-neck, the head tipped to one side and half the face in a halftone gold shadow, against a gold panel

Role: Studio tutor
Affiliation: Slop University School of Urban Design
Email: nadia.ilkhom@slop.university
Contact: Drop-in hours in the studio Thursdays. Email if a network is failing and you genuinely cannot see why.

Nadia is a water engineer by training and still thinks like one: everything in the city is a network with a capacity, and every capacity has a curve that gets ugly at the end. Most of their practice career went on trunk sewer upgrades in districts that had been zoned for growth nobody had costed the pipes for.

Weeks 7 and 10 are theirs: the infrastructure lecture and failure-cascade walkthrough that turn the studio from what a district looks like into what it can carry, and the hazard scenario after the break that finds out whether any of it held.

Their clinic is worth booking even when nothing is broken. Half the utility failures in this studio are visible in the capacity readouts three weeks before they become visible in the streets.