Busy cooking with my artist collaborators—thinking about art-science-society connections in the Himalayas, the Western Ghats of India, Ghana, and South Africa.

ECI Ecosystems DPhil @tanayanair.bsky.social "This ‘dancing wisdom’ or embodied knowledge, which is passed down through traditional teacher-student relationships and in community is a form of restoring peoples intricate connection to nature."
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Looking forward to this event as our own @tanayanair.bsky.social will be taking part. They will be 'Reimagining our Relationship with #Nature' & discussing how we can create new, healthier ways of relating to non-human species. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

I'm grateful to be doing my DPhil in an environment that supports the arts as much as the science. @ecioxford.bsky.social @biodivoxford.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social

My Sattriya (a classical dance from Assam) dance teacher & I organised an event for the Biodiversity cluster at Oxford University titled 'Dance Mirrors Nature'. Here's a glimpse of what it was like👇https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/indian-dance-workshop-explores-link-between-biodiversity-and-movement

Join me on 30th April at 7:00 pm at Generation Hope! @nhm-london.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @reednetwork.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @biodivoxford.bsky.social

I'm joining an environmental artist & activist at Generation Hope, a festival at the Natural History Museum in London to discuss how we can begin to reimagine our relationship with nature through trans-disciplinary practice. www.nhm.ac.uk/events/reima...

Sharing a story by my friend Arjun Kamdar on the life and death of an elephant, Ramu/Laden, who now lives in the memories of countless people who lived in and worked at the foothills of the Himalayas in Assam. www.projectcroak.com/post/the-lif...

Thinking of how to design DPhil chapters that are relevant to current discussions in the field but is also useful & important for vulnerable communities/landscapes. And yearning to use truly transdisciplinary art & science methods from the conception to the rolling out of this research in the world.

The mighty Brahmaputra river

Sampling in stunning riverine grasslands in upper Assam. Who knew savanna field work would involve traveling by boat and watching Gangetic river dolphins on the way to our field sites.

Very excited to reflect and share on our lovely collaborative field expedition in Angola earlier this year. Come, take a walk down a catena in the miombo woodlands with us. 👇

To be in a boat full of people I love is the kind of life I want to live.

In Kerala amongst the circling Brahminy kites, the diving chestnut headed bee-eaters, the very still heron, the low flying cormorants, & the egret. The Manjaly river is sweet to taste. Is lined by mangroves. Fish farms. Wooden boats.