We conceptualised the “Climate Resource Center” as borne from a design research project to document and share local agrarian knowledge. As part of a team, I interviewed farmers, seed distributors, and agrarian scientists talking about
- knowledge-encoded mythic narratives,
- seasonal heuristics, and
- care practices that farming communities use to relate to their environments- knowledge systems that often go unrecorded by formal climate research.
The project sits at the intersection of place-based research and climate practice, asking how communities already know and respond to ecological change as well as set up observatories and political actions for agrarian-centred ecological knowledge. Key Project Actions
- Observatory: Mapping seasonal water availability, water levels, and monitoring
- Community led maintenance: Organizing collective maintenance activities
- Restoration: Reviving and mentioning all the techniques
- Advocacy: Water conservation and its linkage with health, migration, changing crops, etc.
