Project Mumbai
City with A Multilayered Story
Mumbai is a living laboratory where nature and culture intertwine. Built on 65-million-year-old basalt and enriched by rivers, lakes, and forests, it sustains diverse ecosystems and centuries of human creativity. From geological origins to modern resilience, the city embodies an evolving dialogue between natural heritage and human endeavor.
Aspects of The Story
Mumbai’s layered story unfolds beneath its urban pace — from microlithic tools at Tulsi to Kanheri’s rock-cut sanctuaries, colonial precincts, and living ecosystems. Its landscapes witness faith, trade, and transformation, where leopards roam and wetlands revive. The city’s identity endures through adaptation, reflecting harmony between human legacy and nature’s persistence.
Domains of Inquiry
Project Mumbai explores the city’s intertwined natural and cultural heritage through geology, ecology, archaeology, and anthropology. It studies how basalt, rivers, and communities shaped its evolution. By merging environmental and human narratives, the project reimagines Mumbai as a living heritage landscape — an ecosystem of memory, resilience, and coexistence.
Project Pendur
A Village Boundless of Time - Pendur
Project Pendur reveals the intertwined story of nature and culture in a Sindhudurg village shaped by rivers, forests, and faith. Bordered by the Karli River and sacred lakes, its landscapes sustain leopards, otters, migratory birds, and timeless traditions—where ecological richness meets living folklore in a truly mixed heritage mosaic.
Aspects of The Story
Pendur’s heritage unfolds through its sacred lakes, groves, and temples. From Vetalgadh Fort’s ancient petroglyphs to guardian deities like Sateri and Vetal, every hill and ritual tells of coexistence. Seasonal festivals, oral traditions, and local governance preserve memory and balance—binding ecology, belief, and community into a living cultural continuum.
Domains of Inquiry
Project Pendur explores how ecology and tradition co-create identity. Through multidisciplinary inquiry—ecology, anthropology, archaeology, and folklore—it studies how forests, fauna, and sacred landscapes sustain both biodiversity and belief. By bridging conservation science with cultural knowledge, Pendur emerges as a resilient model of sustainability rooted in shared memory and stewardship.