Project workshops
Temporalities of Futuring: Heritage, Custom and Tradition in the Himalayas
🗓️ 20 January 2026
📍Darjeeling, West-Bengal
📚 Workshop exploring how actions and orientations of human and more than human actors that make implicit reference to the future trigger, negotiate and defy competing notions of temporality.
Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
🗓️ 21 - 22 January 2026
📍Darjeeling, West-Bengal
📚 Collaborative workshop in which academics, NGO workers and government officers working in the North Eastern region together with people of Darjeeling listen, see, and sense places, neighbourhoods and environments, foregrounding the everyday significance of ‘places’.
Past workshops
Futuring Himalayan Landscapes: Communities, Cultural Heritage and Adaptive Strategie
🗓️ 23 December 2023
📍DelNet, J.N.U Campus, New Delhi
📚 Workshop focusing on how the intersection of environmental and developmental challenges faced by people in the Himalayas is understood and tackled by a variety of stakeholders.
Environmental Heritage at Risk: Navigating Disparities, Conflicts, and Convergences in the Himalayas
🗓️ 24 December 2023
📍DelNet, J.N.U Campus, New Delhi
📚 Business meeting in preparation for the NWO Open-L grant application.
Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas
🗓️ 6 - 9 January 2025
📍ICSSR-NERC, NEHU campus Shillong, Meghalaya
📚 Kick-off workshop, aimed at exploring initiatives aimed at environmental conservation and climate change adaptation in the eastern Himalayas, and their alignment with the cultural expectations of its inhabitants.
Mapping and GIS for social scientists
🗓️ 12 - 16 January 2025
📍Saipung, East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya
📚 Tailor made workshop, focusing on the methods to assess and analyse qualities of land in terms of agriculture, agroforestry, land ownership, religion and related practices.