KaN is a women owned and run practice since 2010, based in Kingston. As Site Curators, Kan integrates artistic, sustainable, and educational components to enable communities and stakeholders into the creative process to design meaningful, holistic, and inspiring spaces. KaN and their partners work together instilling positive and transformative changes in shared places. Kan centers youth in socially designed spaces as true leaders of their community. Kan believe’s every design is an opportunity for community building.
KaN is currently working with many partners in the Kingston community and in the Bronx.
Karine Duteil (she/her/hers) has a background in Landscape Architecture (BA Landscape Architecture – City College) and the Fine Arts (Print Making, Sculpting) at the Art Students League in NYC. Karine Duteil was previously involved with the Hudson and Pacific Designs- Landscape Architecture firm, in upstate NY, as Principal Designer creating the master plan for Bear Mountain, in NY, Depew Park in Peekskill, and Central Park in Prague. As a multi-disciplinary social artist Karine Duteil ran an art gallery in the Bronx and in the Financial District in New York City, she worked with the Woodstock Land Conservancy as Community Outreach and recently obtained her Permaculture Design Certificate with the Edge Project, a local permaculture organization. Karine Duteil is a member of the local Transition movement and the “Drawdown” solutions to address climate change.
Nadej Hocini (she/her/hers) has extensive educational background in Landscape Architecture (BA Landscape Architecture – City College), Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Arts. She has been working with Billie Cohen Ltd landscape design Studio, whose firm is recognized for beautiful, durable, ecologically sensitive designs, with projects ranging from parks, schools, and playgrounds, to community-oriented spaces. Nadej Hocini has been successfully involved with a series of community initiatives such as New Yorkers for Parks and the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance.