Auto Akka and the Hot Seat

Auto Akka and the Hot Seat

This project, ‘Auto Akka and the Hot Seat’, tackles Bangalore city’s urban heat challenge by creating a bilingual children’s storybook featuring an auto-rickshaw driver, explaining heat’s causes and consequences. Bangalore city’s rising urban heat...
Tubers and Sustainability Programme

Tubers and Sustainability Programme

Image credit: Project Team A project to curate and organise a programme for education and messaging around tuber crops & food biodiversity for Urban Bengaluru. This is a dedicated initiative to raise awareness and cultivate interest in indigenous tuber crops,...
Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness

Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness

Image credit: Project Team Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness is a joint project between Oorvani Foundation and St Joseph’s University (SJU) to enable young Bengalureans to learn about the city’s environment and sustainability issues.  This programme...
Applying a biodiversity lens for a sustainable city

Applying a biodiversity lens for a sustainable city

Image credit: Project Team In this project we plan to integrate data driven research along with citizen science initiatives to study the effects of urbanization and climate change. We will focus on birds and butterflies, with the aim of predicting the vulnerability of...
Flourishing Bengaluru in the era of Climate Change

Flourishing Bengaluru in the era of Climate Change

Image credit: The Messenger.space and Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom Like many major cities, Bengaluru faces a challenging mix of aspiration, opportunity, disruption, and uncertainty. In response, we believe that three relevant dimensions to the...