RESILIENCE

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others -Pericles

The image shared here is a common sight that can be captured in any city in India. In terms of political language, these spaces are considered as ‘chaos’. Today the cities are evolving at a much faster pace than ever before, striving to adapt to the perfect notions of Western societies. The places underneath the tree anchor the multifaceted layers that are formed in the Indian context with rituals, activities, which co-exist in harmony with humans and natural orders despite the apparent chaos.

These sites form a resilience in the urban fabric of the Indian cities. It provides shelter, forms social interactions, exchanges of ideas and commodities. Here the trees act as the foreground of the socio-cultural intermix. These inorganic forces support the economy of the poor migrants and serve as a pivot of the environment. The spaces through considered inorganic and chaotic create sustainable and interconnected ecosystems within the city fabric. It forms a resilience between the multiple aspects of public life and nature.

Competition Entry: Finalist, Climate: Through Your Eyes. Science Gallery Bengaluru

Brief: The prompt involved capturing how are communities readying themselves for climate change. The interpretation showed the theme of resilience in society.