How do we think and do and live in wetness and with rain? In a wet world how can we be attentive to movement and ephemerality, negotiating the everyday?

How do we think, do and live with other sentient beings? Can we reimagine how we engage with materials, biota, and appropriate the world with sensitivity?

How can we create context-sensitive policies that emerge from an inclusive framing of the environment, from engaging in the ground?

The ongoing collaboration between Dr. Deepta Sateesh and  Dr. Gururaja KV is located between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, investigating movement and sound, within complex and ever-changing ecologies.

Artist Dr. Laura Denning and Dr. Deepta Sateesh, have an ongoing series of collaborative works related to Sentient / Somatic Practices, of being-in-the-world situated in wet ontologies. More about Laura here.

In the collaboration with Dr. Meera Baindur we investigate plants as sentient beings through creative practice and critical thinking, working between the field and drawing from environmental humanities and philosophy.

We offer policy research consultancy and design, particularly related to environment and ecology, climate change, and biodiversity conservation, towards climate justice and sustainable livelihoods. We work with government bodies, NGOs, communities and global / independent agencies.

We offer services to develop and implement holistic environmental education to enable young learners deeply engage with their environment and understand more-than-human relations, in creative ways. We work with to K-12 schools and alternative learning spaces, through our place-based approach.

We research local and indigenous practices, from making home, cultivation and food, to water systems and dependency on rain. From our research, we design community-level sustainable practices that support local livelihoods as well as nurture the ecologies that these livelihoods depend on.