https://khattamicah.xyz/tags/place-based-research/Recent content in Place-Based-Research on khattamicahHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USmicah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Published in Compost Digital (Issue 1), this is a group reflection on a project run in Bidar, India, to set up a community mesh network. Facilitated by Living Labs Network and Forum, Team YUVAA, and Janastu Servelots, the local mesh network was designed to act as an intranet of local informal archives- with tools like Papad running on the network- that would collectively function as a knowledge network. This work is part of a broader arc of community network writing and feeds into the principles we distilled around Community Owned Wifi-Mesh.https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/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.