Climate Resource Center
Interviewed farmers, seed distributors, agrarian scientists, and published pieces about local agrarian practices, mythic narratives and heuristics used by farming practitioners to care for their environments in the context of learning climate practices.
The Climate Resource Center in Bidar- a place I also explored through Technofutures from Bidar- was a design research project focused on documenting and sharing local agrarian knowledge. I interviewed farmers, seed distributors, and agrarian scientists to surface the 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, and how that knowledge can be made legible and shareable without extracting it from its context. A parallel concern with centering indigenous knowledge shaped my work on mapping migratory routes of pastoralists across India.