Directed curiosities
To draw attention to urban spaces and the overlooked human-nature interactions, different field experiments (self-financed and supported through crowdfunding) are being carried out collaboratively. These initiatives emerge not from institutional corridors, but from the firm resolve of discomforted human beings moved by care, urgency, and lived experience.
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Birds of our City
Birds of Our City is a community-driven bird education initiative launched this August in collaboration with the Kranti Collective Library. This project is rooted in the belief that nature education should not be a privilege. It aims to bring children and young people—especially those from marginalized communities—into closer contact with the natural world around them, through observation, learning, creativity, and care.
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Documenting Dwarka Forest
As an extension of earlier urban ecological inquiries, this initiative seeks to understand Dwarka Forest not merely as a site of biodiversity, but as a space of meaning, memory, and everyday connection. By documenting bird life, tree diversity, and the ways people relate to the forest, it invites us to view conservation as both ecological and social—rooted in lived experience and the right to engage with nature in urban spaces.
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Parks of People
Details coming soon.
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Mainstreaming environmental education
This fundraiser is specifically aimed at raising funds for a second-year student at Ambedkar University. It stems from our broader understanding that non-mainstream subjects such as ecology, environmental studies, and urban studies are often not considered as popular choices.
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Festivals of the urban century
Festivals of the Urban Century reimagines global observances like the Great Backyard Bird Count and the City Nature Challenge as contemporary urban festivals. It highlights the hidden ecological costs of celebration such as waste, noise, and environmental damage, while exploring how festivals can become more mindful, participatory, and rooted in care for urban nature. By drawing on citizen science and community engagement, the project reframes these events not just as moments of joy, but as opportunities to rethink how cities can celebrate without harming the environments they depend on.