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Foraging, Knowledge, and the Everyday Technologies of Care: Walking with Mangalamma

By “everyday technologies,” we mean Mangalamma’s embodied foraging techniques and practice that sustain growth and the community engagements at CHL, that observe and carry health knowledge as a continuous, community-held practice.

Mapping Public Water Infrastructures of Aluru Gram Panchayat

Our focus on the two days of November 5 and 6th was to get a glimmer of understanding of the water systems of Aluru Panchayat through mapping.

Social Movements in Hyderabad Deccan

In continuation to our work with Bidar Heritage Centre (BHC)- archives, we began our work on- “Social Movements in Hyderabad Deccan” with initial focus on Hyderabad Karnataka (1940-80s) with our project team, collaborators and resource people.

Mapping Open Natural Ecosystems in Bidar - Kalyana Karnataka Karwaan

The Bidar district, part of the Deccan Plateau, hosts many patches of ONEs. The Second edition of Kalyana Karnataka Karwaan had us mapping various components of ONE's in three regions within Bidar district on Open Street Map as a way to understand the diverse ecologies of Hyderabad-Karnataka.

Building Community Tech for Climate Action

In this workshop planned with WRI India, LandStack, Land Conflict Watch, Aapti Institute and LLNaF. We frame community technology as technologies rooted in communities’ lived histories and practices of sensing and responding to climate change.

“The Crown of Jaffar Miya’s Badshah’s”

Field notes by- Harshawardhan & Abhishek 💡Context belongs to work

In-Conversation: On observing weather variations and climate shifts

While scientific or academic discourses and understandings of ‘Climate Change’ abound, these everyday observations that arise in conversation allow for a deeper engagement with local experiences of climate change.

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Mein Aur Mera Poorana Shaher

Bidar Heritage Center: An upcoming archive and learning museum in 2025

People's Archive of Bidar is a long term engagement initiated in 2017 to archive ordinary histories of communities and their practices based in Hyderabad-Karnataka region.

A lesson in Lambani Embroidery

Through the process of co-creation with Ambika Ji, we learned about what was being stitched onto the fabrics—the histories, values, and lived realities of their makers.