Nina Chandavarkar begins by responding to a question on gender differentiation felt in the workplace and why a lot of women have to discontinue the workforce. She talks about how it never bothered her and the experiences that molded her thoughts of being a woman practitioner on-site and at the office. She admits that certain kinds of clients and engineering groups felt like a male-dominated space and talks of more positive experiences with clients like Ashok Leyland for which she created a perennial water body that was widely appreciated, and later became an ecological hotspot. She describes certain fruits of her labor that motivate her work and recalls the details of a specific project called Mindtree Kalinga in the Bhubaneswar tribal area where she focussed on designing to generate knowledge for the residents of their environmental surroundings. 

In responding to a question on the kind of research required in the field currently, she explains the empirical research that is necessary to understand the nurturement of plants in a built environment. Furthermore, she explains the importance of appropriately choosing building materials in a sustainable manner and technologies that can facilitate them. On formalizing landscape architecture through regulations involved in the field, she points out how they can be superfluous. Moreover, she describes the state of the practice of landscape architecture and the recognition it has in India. She believes it is generally seen only as an ‘icing on a cake’ and not integrated with urban design as it should be. She mentions successful masterplans, such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Tiruchirappalli, which was created in keeping with factors like the natural resources, lay of the land, etc. Going back to the requirements of by-laws, she talks about navigating through some of the helpful and other not-so-helpful ones with her projects and their implications on cost and integrative design. Concluding on what she understands about Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), she explains its pros and cons in the context of landscape architecture planning.