Go through our interactive workshops!
Who Feeds Bengaluru?
By Edible Issues | 22 AND 23 August 2020
Spread over 2 days, Who Feeds Bengaluru (WFB) was an exploration into different forces that shape how the city of Bengaluru eats. It was a participatory research project fuelled by collective community thinking and doing, to get a clearer idea of the people who feed Bengaluru.
Wilderness at Home
By Kush Sethi | 29 August 2020
While we’re all isolated from the great outdoors, ecological gardener Kush Sethi found a way to help us reconnect with nature through his workshop entitled Wilderness At Home! He took the participants through his ancestral home in Delhi which is teeming with micro life in nooks and crevices. He also showed us how to build planters for our work-desks or gardens using plant cuttings.
Sustainable Dark Room Project
By Hannah Fletcher | 29 August 2020
Photographic development is the chemical process by which a photographic film or paper is treated after exposure to create an image. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to enter or create a dark room in a studio, you would notice the pungent smells which arise from using various acids and halides to develop an image. But what if you could create these images using plant based developers?
Hannah Fletcher of the London Alternative Photography Collective explored the possibilities of doing so in the Sustainable Dark Room Project.
For the Love of Plants
By Nirupa Rao | 30 August 2020
Botanical art combines both art and science in myriad ways. Botanical illustrators strive to record the life cycle, colour, shapes, structures and habitats of plants while also providing a pleasing image. It is a scientific tradition that dates back to centuries.
Nirupa Rao is a botanical illustrator, who showed us how one bring the vibrancy of a leaf to life with the flick of a brush.
Sentinels of the Lake
By Sumita Bhattacharyya | 22 and 30 August 2020
Aquatic plants are not just a beautiful addition to gardens or aquariums. They have an essential role to play in balancing fragile ecosystems. Certain species can help indicate the water quality of local water bodies. Sumita Bhattacharya, a PhD student at ATREE has been studying how bioindicators can be used to study water quality.