Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY)

Lead Research Organisation: Institute of Development Studies
Department Name: Research Department

Abstract

The objective of TAPESTRY is to examine how transformation may arise from below in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. Climate change uncertainties, especially at the local level, constitute one of the main challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems, calling for systemic transformative changes. While uncertainty can exacerbate anxieties about the future, it can also provide an opportunity to create transformation and deep structural change. TAPESTRY focuses on three patches of transformation in India and Bangladesh - vulnerable coastal areas of Mumbai, the Sundarbans and Kutch - where hybrid alliances and innovative practices are reimagining sustainable development and inspiring societal transformation. TAPESTRY is organised in a transnational and transdisciplinary consortium across the UK, India, Bangladesh, Norway and Japan. Its conceptual innovation lies in studying transformation as praxis, by putting bottom-up change and the agency of marginalised people at the centre and by analysing how co-produced transformations can be scaled up and out. The project is particularly relevant to theme 1 and 3 of the call, i.e. governance, wellbeing, quality of life, identity and values in relation to transformations to sustainability. All these lie at the heart of the welfare and development challenges faced by India (a lower middle income country) and Bangladesh (least developed country). The project's outcomes and impact will inform processes to improve the quality of life of marginalised people affected by climate change related uncertainties, build action and capacity amongst all partners whilst generating evidence of how bottom-up transformation can take place in marginal environments.

Planned Impact

The primary users of the research will be the actors who co-produce it. In doing so, they will use the process to reflect on their own engagement and collectively explore changes to policy or governance (instrumental) and develop a deeper understanding of concepts about T2S (academic). Other users and beneficiaries include: citizens affected by climate change impacts in all three sites; people's movements; CSOs; academics and students in South Asia and beyond interested in T2S in the context of climate change; state agencies including planning and development boards, and concerned government departments and ministries. In order to target our messages effectively towards these diverse audiences, all of the core project partners will be involved in developing our communication strategy, through the use of Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA).

Our findings have diverse implications for multiple audiences. They will be disseminated to a wide audience in South Asia and beyond to provoke further learning. We will collate storytelling materials and monitor opportunities for the English, Norwegian, Japanese and vernacular media coverage such as the Times of India, The Guardian (UK) and local newspapers. We will gather film and written material from each site to document processes of transformation, which will be used to inform stories, an exhibition and briefings. The communication team will devise a global strategy to share multiple non-academic outputs -- blogs, audio-visual material, newspaper articles, policy briefs, Photovoice and life histories. In order to raise awareness of the project and also the potential for transformative alliances through evocative, compelling narratives and images, a pop-up exhibition will take stories of transformation to metropolitan audiences in Kolkata, Mumbai and Dhaka. Where possible, we will re-use materials from the exhibition for other events (e.g. proposed Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference hosted by IDS 2019).
Academic dissemination channels are selected for their ability to reach large and relevant audiences and encourage engagement and feedback.

Global academic networks such as (POLLEN) and the biannual Transformations conference, with whom project partners have existing relationships, will be targeted. Insights from the project will also be shared via the T2S newsletter and in webinars to promote learning across a community of practice. Outputs, including policy briefs, e-newsletter, social media, articles, blog posts and news, will be shared via the websites hosted by partner institutions, such as, NMBU, Kyoto, IITB, AIDMI, ICCCAD and Sahjeevan which target a wide audience. A range of academic outputs will be on OpenDocs, a permanent open-access repository hosted by IDS. Data storage and management will be to the highest standard (see proposal).

We have planned for 4 presentations at conferences, including the Royal Geographic Society and a UNFCCC COP side event; an issue of the open-access IDS Bulletin (which received 400,000 downloads in 2016), three policy briefings, an IDS research report and Practice Paper (which aims to share practical learning from the programme). At least five journal articles targeting high ranking journals and a book (for Oxford India) will be produced. All team budgets have a dedicated budget for communication dissemination activities.
 
Title '????? ??????' or 'Conversations of the Creek' - Exhibition and festival at Versova Koliwad 
Description The event, organised by Bombay61 Studio along with Ministry of Mumbai's Magic (MMM), a collective that represents the creative and social power of Mumbaiker youth, and with support from TAPESTRY project, aimed at celebrating the symbiotic relationship between the Koli and Warli communities and Mumbai's coastal ecosystems. The festival, held in Versova Koliwada, attempted at co-creating a public space to host various forms of visual methods including archival photos, photovoice, traditional artwork, storytelling, art workshops along with shared meals, and cycling tours, to reflect on the past, present and future of traditional fishing and on the state of creek dependent communities. The exhibition created an array of perceptions from different generations of the community showcasing a journey from archival history to present-day perceptions. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The exhibition promoted more pluralised discourses between fishing communities through a series of participatory activities, including painting, photography, and storytelling. Assemblages of the resulting artworks and narratives enabled more communities to see and hear perspectives from those most affected by climate injustices and develop solidarity actions and resistance across multiple communities. The exhibition facilitated a discourse on the way we view the water systems in the city, the drains that we often refer to as 'nullahs' are in fact the rivers or the creeks that were an integral part of the indigenous communities. It helped amplify the voices of the marginlaised communities. 
URL https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-4-day-fest-to-showcase-importance-of-creeks-coastal-ec...
 
Title 'New Catch in Town' - Pilot installation of Net filters in Versova creek 
Description The initiative was co-created with the Koli community. The inventive, waste filtering solution was crafted out of traditional fishing methods nets and was introduced as an installation in June this year at the Versova - Malad Creek. It is a long-term, community-led, and cost-effective solution for addressing the waste related issues in the creek 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact In just three days, the simple innovation managed to clear 500 kg of solid waste from just one of the creek's outlets (Kavtya Khadi). It can relieve a polluted creek outlet of around 5000 kg or 4.83 tonnes of waste in a month. In the entire Malad creek, it is estimated that around 24,150 kg or 24.15 tonnes could be trapped and cleared in a month via these net filters installed at multiple outlets of the creek. Along with the installation, Bombay61 has published a report detailing the potential impacts on Koli livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and the future of Mumbai's flood resilience. The mangrove foundation has approached B61 for Pilot installation of the solution in Thane creek and the project is in process. The project received enquiries from other koliwadas to explore the possibility of installing in other creek systems. 
 
Title 'On Extraction and Debilitating Livelihoods' 
Description Online exhibition titled 'On Extraction and Debilitating Livelihoods' as part of the 'Extracting Us' exhibition and conversation on the feminist political ecologies of extractivism. Using photovoice by local Koli youths in Mumbai as a methodology, the exhibition brings forth a microcosm of the conflicts, threats and opportunities due to infrastructure and urban growth, habitat loss, demographic transition and climate change through pictures and narratives. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact N/A 
URL https://extractingus.org/contributors/tapestry-collective/
 
Title 'Through the Eyes of the Kolis: A Reflection on Mumbai's Past, Present and Future' 
Description A digital exhibition curated and developed by Bombay61 Studio, in collaboration with Ministry of Mumbai's Magic, and hosted by The Heritage Lab. The exhibition presents a series of archival photographs from the 1950s - 2000s which have been carefully sourced from the Koli community by Bombay61 Studio, an experimental think tank working across architecture, urban design and public participation. Regarded as the first residents of Mumbai, the community's livelihoods are deeply intertwined with the rivers and the sea they inhabit. This exhibition presents a pictorial narrative of the generational history of the Kolis and the deep relationship they share with the natural environment. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact These have not been assessed yet. 
URL https://www.theheritagelab.in/mumbai-koli-archives-main/
 
Title 'Versova Creek Restoration Project' 
Description The video talks about Bombay61's project about the concerns of the ecology of the city of Mumbai and the way it is affecting the livelihoods of the Koli (fishermen) community. The Kolis are the original inhabitants of Mumbai, residing in the city for more than 400 years. The climate change, environmental deterioration, urban development and the changing aspirations fuel concerns of the livelihood and sustenance of this community. The project is an attempt to bring about transformative change in the well being of the city of Mumbai. This video was presented at an exhibition put up by Bombay61 at the Versova Koli Seafood Festival 2020. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2020 
Impact These are not assessed yet. The video has over 800 views. It has led to offers of support from local residents and interested civil society actors in Mumbai for the project interventions. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzKfvnQ4yFY&t=9s
 
Title 'Versova Koliwada Makeover: Giving Local Communities Ownership of Spaces' 
Description Women and youth were mobilized to paint murals on fisher houses in Versova, Mumbai as a strategy of rejuvenating neighborhoods and to inculcate pride and ownership in the transformation project. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact These have not been assessed yet. 
URL https://www.instagram.com/p/CTWdZImME6H/
 
Title Envisioning Mumbai 2.0' with Ministry of Magic (MMM) a youth collective. 
Description Publication of video film educating about the netfilter installation and outreach. The report was published accessible to general audience. Events for strengthening the identity of the communities were conducted and participated by various citizens. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Facilitation of deeper engagement and participation with the community. 
 
Title Mangrove School Project 
Description Two day international exhibition on 'Mangrove School Project' at IDS & CWEH, Brighton in July, 2022 Products displayed: Paintings- 65 Batik Art Work- 40 Tie and Dye- 20 Block printing- 20 Tapestry- 3 Number of visitors in IDS- 54 Number of visitors in CWEH- 40 School Project documents the voices of school children of Sundarbans region with the objective of understanding and learning from their 'uncertain' worlds. The project has collected uncrafted narratives-oral, visual, photographic and written from 50 school children aged between 12-15 years in an initial pilot project from the Raidighi Shriphaltala Chandra Kanta High School in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas. The aims of the project are; 1. To listen to the voices of youth and children experiencing uncertainty and climate change in the Sundarbans towards reimagining their future. 2. To bring children's voices in conversation with expert voices to co-produce and re-shape knowledge and to reframe debates on marginality, uncertainty and climate change. The target group for the project were Middle school children whose age ranges between 12 to 16 years and the methodologies adopted for accumulating these were to facilitate uncrafted narratives 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact Raised awareness of the indigenous artistic creative traditions of the Indian Sundarbans and recived positive feedback from the audience. 
 
Title Young people's paintings on uncertainty 
Description A series of paintings by young people which explore responses to uncertainties, including Cyclone Amphan, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. These paintings were created with the help of facilitators from the TAPESTRY project and the Centre for World Environmental History (CWEH). The paintings were created by students in the Sundarbans delta in the Bay of Bengal. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The paintings have been shown on site in schools where they were developed, and findings from this work have been shared in academic conferences. The project is ongoing and we will be reflecting on impacts at a later date. These will include sharing the paintings via exhibitions in Kolkata, the Sundarbans and Sussex, as well as an online virtual exhibition organised by the TAPESTRY project, to be launched in 2022. 
URL https://www.sussex.ac.uk/cweh/newsandevents/mangrove
 
Description TAPESTRY explores how the notion of transformation is conceptualised from 'below' in marginal environments that are marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. While uncertainty can exacerbate anxieties about the future, our starting point is that uncertainty can also provide an opportunity to create systemic transformative changes in so-called marginal environments. We conceptualise transformation as praxis to focus on bottom-up change, identities, wellbeing and the recovery of agency by marginalised people.

Through action-oriented research, we co-produced transformative initiatives with camel herders in Kutch, Koli fishers in Mumbai and islanders in the deltaic Sundarbans that both gave agency to marginalised women, men, boys and girls and also facilitated and contributed to bottom-up processes of transformation. We challenged received wisdoms regarding techno-centric development projects and highlighted the need to combine plural knowledges and build hybrid alliances for achieving socially just transformation. Through working with alliances of scientists, local communities, researchers and community-based organisations (CBOs) we succeeded in co-producing initiatives across the patches.

In Mumbai, local agency and capacity were enhanced through the deliberative process of building net filters. The exhibitions, visual research,master plan surveys, stakeholder interviews, and digging into indigenous knowledge helped develop alternative framings and initiatives for addressing livelihood issues and pollution problems. In Kutch, pastoralists felt that the scientific data generated on mangroves validated their local knowledge concerning the synergies between camels and mangroves.They gained the confidence to speak in front of authorities about their knowledge regarding biodiversity which has enhanced their voice and agency and confidence in their livelihood options.

The visual methods and creative work lifted hidden voices (of women, youth and children that are often left out) and marginalised practices to the forefront of transformative imaginaries. Our photovoice work in Kutch and the Sundarbans with women highlighted the socially differentiated experiences of uncertainty and transformations.

The project has advanced conceptual and empirical understandings of transformation from below, across the three 'patches'. Conceptually, we reframed conventional narratives around 'marginal environments,' highlighting the distinctiveness of local perspectives which were communicated to diverse stakeholders in roundtables and exhibitions. The cross-learnings across the patches have revealed that what constitutes transformation is contested in spatial (scalar politics) and temporal terms (here and now vs long-term). Across the sites, transformation pathways are context-specific and have to be carefully co-constructed with a range of stakeholders. Otherwise, these may create further burdens and injustice for the marginalised communities (for example market-led interventions that expose communities to further uncertainties). The need for contestation, listening to diverse voices, and bringing together conflicting stakeholders were identified as key for bringing about transformation. In all patches, interdisciplinary research design has helped to reveal the various facets of transformation, especially eliciting the hidden and marginalised voices through a range of visual, participatory and creative methods, which would not have been possible if a singular inquiry stream was adopted.
Exploitation Route TAPESTRY's findings have helped reframe conventional narratives around 'marginal environments and create broad-based theoretical and practical knowledge on how to facilitate systemic transformations in the face of climate change and other socio-ecological challenges faced by communities.
In Kutch, our findings validated the camel-herders views of the synergies between swimming camels and mangroves. We hope this will ultimately support herders to maintain their lifestyles, build more resilient livelihoods and also have scientific data to counter top-down and exclusionary policies that restrict their access to coastal resources. In the Sundarbans, transboundary dialogues excited a range of stakeholders and generated demand for future cooperation on climate adaptation and loss and damage.

In Mumbai, together with partner Bombay 61 and the indigenous Koli fishers, TAPESTRY built on local knowledge and practices to co-create community-led innovations to address pollution in the Versova creek. The initiative created waves and was widely reported in more than 30 media outlets. It has inspired other fishing villages and also government agencies (e.g. Mangrove Foundation) to initiative similar experiments across multiple creeks in Mumbai. Overall, the project succeeded in reimaging coastal transformation using the lens of spatial justice, and this reframing will be pushed by Bombay 61 and Kolis across different parts of the city.

The project has had a significant impact on debates regarding transformative change, biodiversity, climate justice and transdisciplinarity, including in the International Science Council and the ongoing Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessment. It has influenced thinking and on-the-ground practices in India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Japan and Norway. In addition, TAPESTRY findings were incorporated in climate change syllabi at NMBU (Norway), IDS (UK) and IIT Bombay (India).
Sectors Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
URL https://tapestry-project.org/
 
Description TAPESTRY has worked with some of the poorest people and their allies in three vulnerable coastal 'patches' (coastal Mumbai, dryland Kutch and the deltaic Sundarbans) in India and Bangladesh to study and co-create transformation from below. It has foregrounded experiences of those at the frontline of climate change to reveal multiple alternative futures whilst working with communities to enhance livelihoods and build climate resilience. Through interdisciplinary work, we were able to challenge dominant cause-effect narratives about socio-environment relations that also structure power relations. Instrumental impacts include co-produced initiatives, building on local knowledges and practices. For example, net filters adapted from traditional technologies in Mumbai's Versova waterways, extracted 500kg of waste in just 3 days. In Sundarbans, work with farmers and partners spread awareness of salinity-tolerant rice varieties as a food security and livelihood response to climate uncertainties. The project helped validate the livelihood practices and knowledges of local pastoralists in Kutch. In the Sundarbans, local partners facilitated transboundary learning exchanges between India and Bangladesh, sharing insights on research, policy and practice concerning community-led adaptation and maladaptation (e.g., crab farming). Roundtables led to a 'Transboundary Local Transformative Adaptation Platform'. The West Bengal government has expressed interest in our initiative on salinity-resistant seeds. TAPESTRY inspired our partner LRRM to pilot the 'Sundari Sundarban' (Beautiful Sundarbans) app to promote knowledge interface between islanders, CBOs and policymakers. In Mumbai, our work raised the profile of indigenous coastal communities (including Kolis) around shrinking livelihoods, access to the sea, and impacts of climate uncertainties amidst new infrastructure projects. It gained immense attention through exhibitions, festivals and media coverage. Versova's net filter project will be scaled out to other fishing villages. Maharashtra's Mangrove Foundation is keen to develop a prototype installation in Thane Creek. In Kutch, working with the Camel's Breeders' Association (KUUMS), we revealed how pastoral herders and their kharai (swimming camels) live synergistically with mangrove habitats, and communicated the implications to scientists and officials in roundtables and dialogues. Our research helped challenge dominant 'fortress conservation' approaches and highlighted the importance of indigenous knowledge for sustainable grazing practices while also raising the profile and practices of the kharai herders. In TAPESTRY, storytelling, through visual methods, led to an engaged process of co-producing knowledge with the community (children in the Sundarbans, the pastoralists of Kutch and the increasingly marginalised Koli fishers in Mumbai) thus facilitating the reimagination of transformational pathways from below. Artistic approaches, exhibited in the UK and India, lifted invisible voices and sustainable practices of islanders, fishers and herders who are at the margins of mainstream development. Across the sites, training sessions were conducted on the photovoice methods with students and interns to understand the method and ethics of research. Many of our project partners are involved in long-term engagement with policy, and this is only part of a continuing series of engagements and relationships with authorities and policy processes in their areas. In total, five roundtables were conducted across the patches where the learning was shared and implications for policy and practice were teased out. The roundtables were attended by about 200 stakeholders, ranging from students, academics, civil society groups (both community-based organisations and international NGOs), fishers, pastoralists, farmers, journalists as well as government officials from different departments.
First Year Of Impact 2021
Sector Environment,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services
 
Description Kachchh - Policy Awarness
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Interactions with the forest department and the BSF on the part of our team showed some raised awareness of these issues.
 
Description Policy Effect - Court Orders
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
Impact Court Orders helped to protect mangroves in Maharashtra, and helped enhance the livelihoods of fisher folk. The State Government was also forced to protect mangroves and take action against violators. This is in the context of an ongoing tendency on the part of government agencies to seek permissions to destroy mangroves under the guise of infrastructural development.
 
Description Policy Effect IPBES Assessment
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact The transdisciplinary approach helped gain bottom up, holistic and grounded insights and results. The starting point was local communities with all their challenges and differences
URL https://ipbes.net/transformative-change
 
Description Policy influence Coastal Zone Management Plans
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Stakeholder Dialogues
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
 
Description Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Consortium Partnership 
Organisation Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) is one of the leading partners of this consortium project, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The project lead, Professor Lyla Mehta based at IDS, works closely with Co-I Professor D. Parthasarathy, based at IITB, on many aspects of project work.
Collaborator Contribution The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) is one of the lead partners of this consortium, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The Co-I based at IITB is Professor D. Parthasarathy who leads the Mumbai part of the project alongside the other Co-I's, based in Norway and Japan, as well as the Project Lead Professor Lyla Mehta based at IDS in Brighton, UK. Funding for the IITB managed part of the project is provided by ISSC. IITB sub-contract our partners Bombay based organisation Bombay-61, India based consultant Mihir Bhatt who is the director of the All Indian Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and Gujarat based partner Sahjeevan. Professor D.Parthasarthy has recently been invited to be a Core Team Member / Resource Person for the National Science Foundation funded project on "Transdisciplinary Training Collaboratory: Building Common Ground", 2021-23. It will "bring together key transdisciplinary thought leaders and trainers from regional centers and programs around the world to identify key elements of what researchers need to know, do and be in the context of transdisciplinary research and to create training curriculum, guidelines, and frameworks to disseminate widely." The project is led by the Earth Leadership Program, Stanford University
Impact As the Principal Investigator based at IITB, Professor D. Parthasarathy and the TAPESTRY team at IITB, inclusive of their sub-contracted partners, play a fundamental role in the TAPESTRY project activities. This includes contribution to project research, publications, events and panels as well as regular project meetings and workshops. 'Floods and Coastal Vulnerability, Inhabited Sea' workshop, 'Changes in Coastal Regulation Zone Rules and Their Impacts on Coastal Areas with a Focus on Mangroves: A Case Study from the East Coast of India' presentation, 'Introduction to TAPESTRY project' Japan Geoscience Union, 'Anthropo-Sea: Reassessing Ocean Grab and Coastal Squeeze in the Context of Climate Change Perspectives from Asia' presentation at 10th Mare Conference, 'A Participatory Approach to Initiating Transformative Actions from the Bottom-Up' blog, 'Ideation Workshop', 'Sandwitched Between the Sea and the City: The Koli Fishers of Mumbai and their Love-Hate Relationships with Plastic' Social Life of Plastics Workshop, 'Versova Seafood Festival' stall, Versova Seafood Festival 'Mangrove Forest: Ecosystem Services, Conservation and Management' presentation, "Privatizing the Commons, Commoning Disasters: Perilous Urbanization in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region", Emerging Challenges for Urban Sustainability in India Workshop organised by Centre for Urban Ecological Sustainability', 'Sharing Knowledge Instead of Food: TAPESTRY at the Versova Koli Seafood Festival' blog, 'How Pastoralists in Kutch Respond to Social and Environmental Uncertainty' blog, 'TAPESTRY stakeholder workshop', 'TAPESTRY Webinar : Transformations in and beyond COVID-19 in India and Bangladesh', https://doi.org/10.4000/com.10872, 'Co-Production of Knowledge through Collaborative Learning' T2S blog, Gobeshona Conference: Session-1: 'Transforming Environments from the Bottom Up - Examples from Marginal Environments in India', POLLEN Conference: 'When the Boat is Sinking: Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation through Visual Stories and Narratives', POLLEN Conference: 'Transformations in Marginal Environments: Reframing Natures, Knowledges, and Livelihoods' 10.19088/SSHAP.2021.011, 10.19088/SSHAP.2021.010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.002 'Sundarbans without Boundaries: Co-creating Transformative Knowledge and Action' Roundtable, 'Old Cities, New Risks' Roundtable, 'Climate Change Uncertainty and Co-creating Transformative Adaptation: Knowledge and Action in the Sundarbans' COP-26 presentation, 'Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities' COP-26 presentation, 'Uncertainty and Transformation: Looking Back and Looking Forward' panel discussion, 'Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia' Transformations conference, 'Understanding Tipping Points for Transformational Adaptations for Urban Floods in the Context of Climate Extremes' SRI conference presentation, 'Anticipating Futures: Preparedness Under Radical Uncertainty in Gujarat, India', NEEDS presentation 'Role of Emergent Groups in Strengthening Local Capacity for Disaster Resilience to Urban Floods' 5th World Disaster Management Conference, 'Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Potentials for re-Conceptualizing Flood Risk Governance in Mumbai', Adaptation Futures Conference, Webinar "International Research Partnerships in South Asia", organized by the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, 'Showing Leadership in Sustainability Science: Lessons from the Global South and Beyond the Academy' Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, 'Giving Local Community Ownership of Spaces' project, Mumbai, 'Through the Eyes of the Kolis: A Reflection on Mumbai's Past, Present and Future Exhibition', 'Versova Creek Restoration Project' video, 'One Cup of Kadak Chai': How Mumbai's Koli Women Survived the Coronavirus Pandemic', Media Engagement, 'Indian Megacity Maps Environmental Memories', Media Engagement, 'To Weather Climate Change, Mumbai Must Embrace It's Wetness' Media Engagement, Panel on 'Climate Migration in the Indian Subcontinent' at India Conference, 'A Disasters: Deconstructed' webinar on post-disaster research, Webinar on 'Strengthening Humanitarian Systems In India', 'World Water Day: Water Could Both Starve and Drown India as Climate Change Intensifies' Media Engagement, 'Why fishermen in suburban Mumbai find their catch shrinking steadily' Media Engagement, 'Rigorous Approach Needed to Study Climate Change' Media Engagement, 'Climate Change is Stretching Mumbai to its Limits' Media Engagement, 'In Climate-Challenged Mumbai, Development Patterns are Adding Fuel to the Fire' Media Engagement, 'Through the eyes of the Koli's' panel event, Workshop on 'Climate Resilience', 'Indo-German Research Forum on Climate Policy and Climate Action: National and Local Dimensions in Germany and India, Indo-German Partnership Program in Higher Education', L. Mehta, H.N. Adam and S. Srivastava (eds) The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India, London: Routledge The Political Ecology of COVID-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments " Member / Resource Person, National Science Foundation funded project on "Transdisciplinary Training Collaboratory: Building Common Ground", 2021-23" India's Emerging Risk Urbanism: Cities, Commons, and Neoliberal Transformations "Climate change and uncertainty in India's maximum city The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on Yahoo news. 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Start Year 2018
 
Description International Centre for Climate Change and Development Partnership 
Organisation International Centre for Climate Change and Development
Country Bangladesh 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution IDS subcontracts ICCCAD for their work on the TAPESTRY project.
Collaborator Contribution ICCCAD has executed the Sundarbans component of the TAPESTRY project together with TAPESTRY researchers. This includes attending and contributing to project meetings and events such as workshops, facilitation of fieldwork in the Sundarbans, contribution to outreach and stakeholder engagement and contribution to publications. ICCCAD also sub-contract TAPESTRY partner CARITAS Bangladesh for their work on the project.
Impact Outcomes include publications, including multiple articles in the Dhaka Tribune, as well as the organisation of events such as the Gobeshona conference and the TAPESTRY project COP-26 sessions and participation in project meetings and workshops. ICCCAD members have contributed to many outputs, including the following: 'A Tale of Crab Farming in Satkhira: Navigating Uncertainties 'From Below' in the Sundarbans' blog, 'Printing the Calamity: Pattachitra Scrolls on Tropical Cyclones and Natural Disasters in Shyamnagar, Shatkhira' blog, 'Transformation is Required from 'Below': Understanding the Bottom-Up Approaches in Locally-Led Adaptation' article, 'Where Getting Drinkable Water is an Everyday Struggle' article, 'How People are Learning Disaster Preparedness Through a Traditional Folk Art' article, 'The Dual Impact of Cyclones and Covid on Food Security in Bangladesh' article, 'Climate Change Uncertainty and Co-creating Transformative Adaptation: Knowledge and Action in the Sundarbans' article, 'Quest for Survival or to the Claws of Death?' article, 'Cyclone Yaas: A Double Blow to Livelihoods in the Coastal Areas' article, 'In Locally-Led Adaptation, "Locality" and "Leadership" Remain Unclear' article, 'Faced with Devastating Cyclones, How are Women in Coastal Bangladesh Building Resilience?' blog, 'From a Fast Vanishing Riverine Landscape': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives' Cop-26 session, 'Climate Change Uncertainty and Co-creating Transformative Adaptation: Knowledge and Action in the Sundarbans' Cop-26 session, 'Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities' Cop-26 session, Gobeshona Conference: Session-1: 'Transforming Environments from the Bottom Up-Examples from Marginal Environments in India', Gobeshona Conference: Session- 2: 'Sundarbans without Boundaries', 'Sundarbans without Boundaries: Co-creating Transformative Knowledge and Action' roundtable, TAPESTRY Webinar: 'Transformations in and beyond COVID-19 in India and Bangladesh' 'bridges' to 'flows' - bringing together plural understandings of climate change and uncertainty - TAPESTRY session at Gobeshona 2022 conference Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK ICCCAD: Unpacking uncertainty and transformation through participatory visual methods from transboundary Sundarbans: 'lived experiences and stories of change from 'below' Unpacking transformation in marginal landscapes in South Asia: 'lived experiences' and stories of change from 'below' 'Transforming the future of a climate change hotspot: the vulnerable Sundarbans' - TAPESTRY visual methods panel at the Delta Futures Conference, Durham. Gobeshona Global Conference 3.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Norwegian University of Life Science Consortium Partnership 
Organisation Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Country Norway 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) is one of the lead partners of this consortium, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The Co-I based at NMBU is Professor Synne Movik. Project lead, Professor Lyla Mehta, works alongside Professor Synne Movik on many aspect of the project work. Professor Mehta has responsibility for the overall management of the project and all the partnerships and collaborations within it.
Collaborator Contribution The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) is one of the lead partners of this consortium, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The Principal Investigator based at NMBU is Professor Synne Movik who leads the Norwegian component of the project. Funding for the NMBU managed aspect of the project is provided by RCN. NMBU sub-contract project partners Upasona Ghosh based at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), India-based communications and policy consultant Shibaji Bose and the India based organisation Caritas.
Impact As the Principal Investigator based at NMBU, Professor Synne Movik and the TAPESTRY team at NMBU, inclusive of their sub-contracted partners, play a fundamental role in the TAPESTRY project activities. This includes contribution to project research, publications, events and panels as well as regular project meetings and workshops. 'Introduction to TAPESTRY project' talk, 'Using Local Vernacular Media to Share Knowledge and Engage Policy' article, 'Unpacking Uncertainty in Times of Climate Change' blog, 'Local Knowledge and Ideas are Key to Action on Climate Disruption' blog, 'Big-Picture View on the Climate Negotiations: How Can Transformation(s) Happen in Practice?' blog, 'Claiming Space: Infrastructure, Uncertainty and Fisherfolks' Livelihoods in Mumbai' blog, 'Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments' presentation at T2S meeting, 'A 'natural disaster' on top of a pandemic - preparedness in the face of cascading uncertainties' blog, TAPESTRY stakeholder workshop, 'Rebuilding same or rebuilding different? Critical questions in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan' blog, On Extraction and Debilitating Livelihoods: Uran Photovoice, Gobeshona Conference: Session-1: 'Transforming Environments from the Bottom up - Examples from Marginal Environments in India', Gobeshona Conference: Session 2 'Sundarbans Without Boundaries', POLLEN Conference: 'Transformations in Marginal Environments: Reframing Natures, Knowledges, and Livelihoods', POLLEN Conference: 'When the Boat is Sinking': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation through Visual Stories and Narratives', 'The Effects of Using Saline Water' workshop, 'Exhibition Shows Threats to Mumbai's Artisanal Fishers by Large Construction Projects' Press Release, 'Local Knowledge and Ideas are Key to Action on Climate Disruption' Press Release, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.002, 'Photo story: How could camel milk change the fortunes of Gujarat's pastoralists?' article, 'Sundarbans without Boundaries: Co-creating Transformative Knowledge and Action' roundtable, 'From a Fast Vanishing Riverine Landscape': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives' Cop-26 session, 'Climate Change Uncertainty and Co-creating Transformative Adaptation: Knowledge and Action in the Sundarbans' Cop-26 session, 'Uncertainty and Transformation: Looking Back and Looking Forward' panel discussion, 'Empowering Marginalised Communities' article, 'Participatory Visual Methods: Glimpses from the Field' short film, 'The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India' lecture, TAPESTRY team workshop, 'Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia' presentation, 'Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation through Visual Stories and Narratives' presentation, 'Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia' event, 'Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai' presentation, 'From Vulnerability to Transformation of Gender Role: Photo Voice Experience of Sundarbans' Women Amidst Climate Change' panel discussion, L. Mehta, H.N. Adam and S. Srivastava (eds) The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India, London: Routledge, 'One Cup of Kadak Chai': How Mumbai's Koli Women Survived the Coronavirus Pandemic' Media Engagement, Extracting Us exhibition, Claiming spaces: Contested coastal commons in Mumbai (under review, Geoforum) "Klimatilpasninger: Endring må komme fra grasrota (forskning.no) How does climate change affect the living conditions of vulnerable people in exposed areas?" Climate change, transformation and the new double movement "Mehta, Lyla, Shilpi Srivastava, Synne Movik, Hans Nicolai Adam, Rohan D'Souza, Devanathan Parthasarathy, Lars Otto Naess, and Nobuhito Ohte. "Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia."" Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49 (2021): 110-117, 2021" "Uncertainty from "above": Diverse understandings, politics and implications." In The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India, pp. 27-54. Routledge, 2021" "Climate change and uncertainty in India's maximum city" "L. Mehta, H.N. Adam and S. Srivastava (eds) The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India, London: Routledge Climate Change, Transformation and the new Double Movement(s)Transformation as praxis" " Mehta, Lyla, Shilpi Srivastava, Synne Movik, Hans Nicolai Adam, Rohan D'Souza, Devanathan Parthasarathy, Lars Otto Naess, and Nobuhito Ohte."Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia."" Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49 (2021): 110-117, 2021"
Start Year 2018
 
Description University of Kyoto Consortium Partnership 
Organisation University of Kyoto
Country Japan 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Kyoto University is one of the lead partners of this consortium, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The Co-I based at Kyoto University is Professor Nobuhito Ohte. Professor Lyla Mehta works alongside Professor Ohte on many aspects of the project work. Professor Mehta is responsible for the management and oversight of all project collaborations and partnerships.
Collaborator Contribution Kyoto University is one of the lead partners of this consortium, under the NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability Joint Research Programme. The Co-I based at Kyoto University is Professor Nobuhito Ohte. Dr Ohte is a natural scientist who provides expertise to all of the three patches under this project, including his expertise in GIS mapping.
Impact As the Principal Investigator based at the University of Kyoto, Professor Nobuhito Ohte and the TAPESTRY team at the University of Kyoto play a fundamental role in the TAPESTRY project activities. This includes contribution to project research, publications, events and panels as well as regular project meetings and workshops. Contribution to outputs include the following: 'Introducing TAPESTRY: A Trans Disciplinary Project Exploring Seeds of Transformation to Reduce Disaster and Climate Change Induced Uncertainties in Marginal Environments' The Fourth Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction, sponsored by the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes, 'Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY)' - conference presentation, 'Introduction to TAPESTRY project' - Annual Meeting of the Japan Geoscience Union, Chiba, Versova Seafood Festival 'Mangrove Forest: Ecosystem Services, Conservation and Management', 'How do we Study Mangrove Ecology with Pastoralists in Kachchh?' blog, 'Pollinating Knowledge Through the POLLEN Conference' blog, 'Mapping Changes in Indigenous Pastoral Ecology in West India: Impact Evaluation of Climate Change and Socio-Economic Changes Using Participatory Mapping and Geographical Information System' presentation, Gobeshona Conference: Session-1: 'Transforming Environments from the Bottom Up- Examples from Marginal Environments in India', Gobeshona Conference: Session 2 'Sundarbans without Boundaries', POLLEN Conference: 'Transformations in Marginal Environments: Reframing Natures, Knowledges, and Livelihoods', 'Mapping Changes in Indigenous Pastoral Ecology in West India: Impact Evaluation of Climate Change and Socio-Economic Changes Using Participatory Mapping and Geographical Information System' - AGU Conference presentation, 'Soil Conservation & Land Use Planning - Geospatial Solutions?' webinar, 'Resilient and Sustainable Development of Historic Precincts and Areas: Resilience to Disaster, Pandemic, Climate Change in Historic Areas And Precincts- Focus West Bengal' webinar,  'A Study on the Long-Term Dynamics and Phenology of Mangrove Forests Based on the Narratives of Inhabitants in Western India using Landsat', Japan Geoscience Union presentation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.002, 'Photo Story: How Could Camel Milk Change the Fortunes of Gujarat's Pastoralists?' photo story, 'Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities' - COP-26 Session, 'Dryland Transformations: Reviving Pastoralist Livelihoods in Kutch, India' Cop-26 Session, 'Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia', Transformation Conference, 'Mangrove Ecosystems in the Coastal Zone of Kutch, Western India, used for Traditional Pastoralism: Effects of Climate Change and Social Conditions on Long-Term Biomass Variability' presentation, 'Integration of New and future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch', Transformation Conference session, 'Rain and Concrete Can We Change the 'Flooding Cities' Narrative in Anthropocene South Asia' presentation
Start Year 2018
 
Description University of Sussex Partnership 
Organisation University of Sussex
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution IDS sub-contracts Professor Vinita Damodaran via the University of Sussex for her work on the project.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Vinita Damodaran has executed the historic component of the TAPESTRY project, in collaboration with Dr. Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University, Japan) and has delivered research to that end. This has included contribution to project meetings and workshops, contribution to project publications and also oversight and supervision of the development, activities and outputs of the school children workshops in the Indian Sundarbans led by Dr Anindita Saha.
Impact Outputs from this partnership include Professor Damodaran's contribution to project research and publications as well as the schools project work being undertaken by Dr Saha. Both Professor Damodaran and Dr Saha contribute and participate in project activities, meetings and workshops. Specific outputs include the first engagement session of the Mangroves school project in September 2020 and the second engagement session of the Mangroves school project in November 2021. The following are specific outputs from this work: POLLEN Conference: 'When the Boat is Sinking': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives', POLLEN Conference: 'Transformations in Marginal Environments: Reframing Natures, Knowledges, and Livelihoods', 'From a Fast Vanishing Riverine Landscape': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives' Cop-26 session, 'Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation through Visual Stories and Narratives' Transformations conference session, L. Mehta, H.N. Adam and S. Srivastava (eds) The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India, London: Routledge, Young People's Paintings on Uncertainty Mangrove School Project Exhibition 2022, Brighton
Start Year 2019
 
Description "'Children's paintings from the sinking islands: Reimagining a safer future' - Living Delta Hub conference " 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As part of the the Collaboration and Co-production with Delta Communities - Delta Dialogue Series. Dr Anindita Saha
presented on the she had been doing with school children in the Mangroves: 'Children's paintings from the sinking islands:
Reimagining a safer future
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description 'A Study on the Long-Term Dynamics and Phenology of Mangrove Forests Based on the Narratives of Inhabitants in Western India using Landsat' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by a group of TAPESTRY researchers (Nobuhito Ohte, Ranit Chatterjee, Pankaj Joshi, Lyla Mehta) at the 2021 Japan Geoscience Union.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Academic and Research Stakeholder Consultation on Strengthening the Humanitarian System in India' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance by TAPESTRY project member Mihir Bhatt at an academic and research stakeholder consultation on strengthening the humanitarian system in India. Mihir suggested gaps in research in coastal, urban, and delta areas of India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description 'Anticipating Futures: Living with Radical Uncertainty' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Participation in a workshop on 'Radical Uncertainty: Design Beyond Solutionism' organised by the University of Brighton (UK).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Anticipating Futures: Preparedness Under Radical Uncertainty in Gujarat, India' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel discussion at the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) conference by TAPESTRY members Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta and Shibaji Bose. Full abstract of the panel discussion can be found here: https://www.needs2021.com/globalassets/institutioner/hsv/needs-2021/anticipatory-governance.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.needs2021.com/globalassets/institutioner/hsv/needs-2021/anticipatory-governance.pdf
 
Description 'Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pre-recorded presentation at the Transformations 2021 Conference of a paper titled 'Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai' written by Prof. D. Parthasarathy (IIT Bombay) Prof. N.C. Narayanan (IIT Bombay) Dr. Lalatendu Keshari Das (IIT Roorkee) Ms. Ketaki Tare (Bombay 61) Mr. Jai Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) Dr. Hans Nicolai Adam (NIVA).

The following is an abstract of the paper: The Mumbai region is frequently cited as among the most vulnerable urban agglomerations in the world to climate change impacts. In addition, rapid degradation and encroachment on coastal ecosystems due to urban development, pollution, and coastal infrastructure projects, threaten more damage as these ecosystems. Through a collaborative project involving the vulnerable fisherfolk in one of the city's Koliwadas (fishing villages), a local NGO, researchers, and local leaders, an attempt is made to co-produce hybrid knowledge combining indigenous understandings of ecosystem changes and climate impacts with science based risk scenarios. The team will then design and implement a transformative plan with potential to arrest further environmental collapse, restore resource based livelihoods, and provide greater autonomy in local level environmental governance to the Koliwada. This paper, while documenting these efforts, will critique ongoing urban planning processes and visions along a fragile coastal zone, and showcase the ways in which the health of urban ecosystems and livelihoods is crucial for disaster risk reduction, climate risk mitigation, and sustainable urban design.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Climate Change Uncertainty and Co-Creating Transformative Adaptation: Knowledge and Action in the Sundarbans' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Session organised by ICCCAD on behalf of the TAPESTRY project during the COP-26 conference in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. The session discussed the possibilities and results of transboundary research in the Indian and Bangladesh Sundarbans. Speakers shared views from their work on the nature and extent of boundaries; and how transboundary research can lead to transformative knowledge and action around gender, livelihoods, and natural resource management. This session took place in the Locally-Led Adaptation hub of the blue zone at COP-26. Speakers included Professor Lyla Mehta, Dr Upasona Ghosh, Dr Pallab De, Mihir Bhatt, Sanjib Mondal, Mahmuda Akter, Sumaiya Binte and Saleemul Huq.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.uncdf.org/article/7251/lla-talks-10th-november#icccad
 
Description 'Climate Change is Stretching Mumbai to its Limit' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article titled 'Climate Change is Stretching Mumbai to its Limit' published in The Atlantic. The article includes an interview with TAPESTRY project PI Professor D.Parthasarathy which analyses the environmental policies of the Maharashtra government.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/mumbai-flooding-climate-change/621471/
 
Description 'Controversies about the Interpretation of Limits and Scarcity' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation by Professor Lyla Mehta in a live debate hosted by the The International Society for Ecological Economics. The debate was titled 'Controversies about the Interpretation of Limits and Scarcity' and centered on the question of whether there are limits to the size of the economy imposed by socio-ecological constraints.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxE9Fuvx4
 
Description 'Cyclone Yaas: A Double Blow to Livelihoods in the Coastal Areas' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Fazah Jaheen Ahmed (ICCCAD) and published in the Climate Tribune. The article examines the impacts of hurricane YAAS on the Satkhira district in the Southwwest coastal area of Bangladesh.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CT_June_2021_compressed.pdf
 
Description 'Dryland Transformations: Reviving Pastoralist Livelihoods in Kutch, India' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pre-recorded presentation at the Transformation 2021 Conference of a paper titled 'Dryland transformations: Reviving pastoralist livelihoods in Kutch, India', written by Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta, Rohit Jha, Pankaj Joshi.

The abstract of the paper is as follows: 'We focus on transformations from below in Kutch, which is the second-largest dryland tract in India and is home to a dynamic ecosystem. Drylands are highly unpredictable ecosystems, characterised by erratic rainfall and high climatic variability. Pastoralists have long learnt to harness this variability to support sustainable livelihoods by drawing on their indigenous knowledge systems. Despite their potential productivity, drylands are often denigrated as 'wastelands' or 'degraded environments' in the official discourses leading to the marginalisation of pastoralism. This resonates with the development trajectory of Kutch where state policies have systematically ignored the dynamics around uncertainty and water scarcity and relegated these landscapes as marginal. We focus on transformation as a praxis between two discourses: 'wastelands and marginal livelihoods' and 'productive landscapes and resilient livelihoods'. We analyse how a bottom-up initiative around the camel milk economy is attempting to reframe the discourse about pastoralism by challenging the dominant state paradigms. Furthermore, we analyse its intersection with the 'invisible' care economy and intergenerational perspectives on pastoralism, thus underlining the contested trajectories of this initiative.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Empowering Marginalised Communities' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article produced by BBC StoryWorks for the International Science Council. The article outlines the work of the TAPESTRY project, specifically the emphasis of having communities involved in research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://stories.council.science/unlocking-science-empowering-marginalised-communities/
 
Description 'Engaging with Wider Experiences of Climate Change, Lyla Mehta, Institute of Developing Studies' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Video message by Prof Lyla Mehta given in the run-up to the COP-26 conference, commissioned by UKRI and hosted on their website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.ukri.org/our-work/responding-to-climate-change/our-climate-pioneers/lyla-mehta/
 
Description 'Faced with Devastating Cyclones, How are Women in Coastal Bangladesh Building Resilience?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog written by Sumaiya Binte Nwar and Mahmuda Akter (ICCCAD, TAPESTRY Project members). The blog examines the disproportionate effect of cyclones on women in Bangladesh as well as the opportunities for women that have emerged in the aftermath.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://tapestry-project.org/2021/06/10/faced-with-devastating-cyclones-how-are-women-in-coastal-bang...
 
Description 'From Vulnerability to Transformation of Gender Role: Photo Voice Experience of Sundarbans' Women Amidst Climate Change' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel Discussion by TAPESTRY Members Shibaji Bose and Upasona Ghosh at the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) Conference. Full abstract of the panel discussion can be found here: https://www.needs2021.com/globalassets/institutioner/hsv/needs-2021/climate-change-resilience.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.needs2021.com/globalassets/institutioner/hsv/needs-2021/climate-change-resilience.pdf
 
Description 'From a Fast Vanishing Riverine Landscape': Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Session jointly organised by ICCCAD and the TAPESTRY project which took place as part of the COP-26 conference in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. The session was titled 'From a fast-vanishing riverine landscape': tales of uncertainty, resilience and transformation through visual stories and narratives'. The session sketched the issues of lived experiences representing climate change, uncertainty and transformative actions in Sundarbans. The visuals stories and narratives are representative of the stories of its 7.2 million who are dependent on climate-sensitive sectors agriculture, fishing, and collection of minor forest produce. Through photos and narratives, the stories of history and sense of place were told from the vantage point of women and youth that are at the forefront of climate change. The discussion was around the process of reflection and reflexivity and is directly linked to action for climate justice and is shaped by an understanding of history, culture and the local context. Speakers included the following: Dr Anindita Saha, Mahmuda Akter, Dr Upasona Ghosh, Sumaiya Binte, Shibaji Bose and Professor Mizan Knan, the session took place as a hybrid event in the locally-led adaptation hub.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixJX8VpvrA
 
Description 'Global Decisions with Local Impact: What COP26 Means for Vulnerable Communities' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance and participation by TAPESTRY partner Mihir Bhatt at a webinar titled 'Global Decisions with Local Impact: What COP26 Means for Vulnerable Communities'. Mihir was a speaker at this event and argued how "transition" can also be "transformative" with a focus on livelihoods and gender opportunities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://coady.stfx.ca/global-decisions-with-local-impact-what-cop26-means-for-vulnerable-communities...
 
Description 'Help Vulnerable People in Asia Deal with Climate Change' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quotes from Professor Lyla Mehta, project lead, used in this article titled 'Help vulnerable people in Asia deal with climate change' and published in the Eastern Eye. The article examined and outlined the concerns of UK experts on the impact of climate change in south Asia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.easterneye.biz/help-vulnerable-people-in-asia-deal-with-climate-change/
 
Description 'How People are Learning Disaster Preparedness Through a Traditional Folk Art' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Mahmuda Akter (ICCCAD, TAPESTRY project member) and Faizah Jaheen Ahmed titled 'How People are Learning Disaster Preparedness Through a Traditional Folk Art'. The article was published in the Dhaka Tribute and is built upon and references research from the TAPESTRY project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.dhakatribune.com/climate-change/2021/06/01/how-people-are-learning-disaster-preparedness-...
 
Description 'In Climate-Challenged Mumbai, Development Patterns are Adding Fuel to the Fire' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article titled 'In climate-challenged Mumbai, development patterns are adding fuel to the fire', published in the City Monitor. The article quotes TAPESTRY PI Professor D.Parthasarathy and his views on the governments responses to the affects of climate change being felt in Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://citymonitor.ai/environment/mumbai-development-patterns-adding-fuel-to-climate-change
 
Description 'In Locally-Led Adaptation, "Locality" and "Leadership" Remain Unclear' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Danielle Falzon and published in the Dhaka Tribune. The article mentions the TAPESTRY Projects approach to locally led adaptation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CT_Feb_2021_cm.pdf
 
Description 'India can Help Save the Planet: Experts Stress Finance and Adopting Green Technology as Prime Minister Narendra Modi Unveils Climate Pledges' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview with Professor Lyla Mehta, alongside other experts, in The Eastern Eye. This article examined reactions to India's climate policy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.easterneye.biz/digital/issue1634/
 
Description 'Indian Megacity Maps Environmental Memories' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article titled 'Indian Megacity Maps Environmental Memories' published in Deutsche Welle. The article uses quotes and insights from TAPESTRY team members Jai Bhadgaonkar and Ketaki Tare (Bombay61) and Debi Goenka of the Conservation Action Trust (CAT).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.dw.com/en/indian-megacity-maps-environmental-memories/a-60649773
 
Description 'Indo-German Research Forum on Climate Policy and Climate Action: National and Local Dimensions in Germany and India, Indo-German Partnership Program in Higher Education' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor D. Parthasarathy was invited to act as the co-convener for the Indo-German Research Forum on Climate Policy and Climate Action: National and Local Dimensions in Germany and India, Indo-German Partnership Program in Higher Education on the 17th December 2021. Participants included persons from media, government, NGOS and civil society, students and academics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2021
 
Description 'Integration of New and Future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pre-recorded presentation as part of the Transformation 2021 Conference of a paper titled 'Integration of New and future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch' written by Ranit Chatterjee, Nobuhito Ohte, Kai Yamamoto, Mrugesh Trivedi, Pankaj Joshi, Rohit Jha, Shilpi Shrivastava, Lyla Mehta.

The paper abstract is as follows: 'Community based transformative adaptation is majorly a reactive process of making fundamental systemic changes to cushion past stress events which has led to uncertainties in life and livelihoods. But studies to understand how these changes integrate new and future risks to create a window for readjustments is limited. In this backdrop, this paper focus on the new and future risks that threaten the buffalo and camel milk businesses led by the pastoralists in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India. The sustainability of the milk business is linked to the ecosystem services, hazard events and the shift due to the development process specially after the 2001 earthquake. To decipher these causal linkages, a mixed approach, integrating natural sciences and social sciences is taken to identify the knowledge induced changes from "Below". Risk assessment and trend analysis of past hazards events are done to identify the known and new risks the area is prone. These risks are discussed with the pastoralists to identify what modifications are needed and what future risks might emerge in the milk business. These discussions from "Below" indicate a list of necessary steps to realign the transformative adaptation trajectory for sustainability.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'International Research Partnerships in South Asia' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Webinar organised by TAPESTRY partner Mihir Bhatt (AIDMI) titled 'International Research Partnerships in South Asia'. TAPESTRY PI Professor D. Parthasarathy was a speaker at the event in which he share lessons from the project. Mihir also highlighted ways for "co-creation" in research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.aidmi.org/(X(1)S(bjkzh045dtrgjl45usutd1u5))/sub-images/reports/Report_Webinar%20on%20Inte...
 
Description 'Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Potentials for Re-Conceptualizing Flood Risk Governance in Mumbai' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Swati Shinde, Theresa Zimmermann, D. Parthasarathy and NC Narayanan at the 'Adaptation Futures Conference', in New Delhi, India in October 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Mangrove Ecosystems in the Coastal Zone of Kutch, Western India, Used for Traditional Pastoralism: Effects of Climate Change and Social Conditions on Long-Term Biomass Variability' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Nobuhito Ohte, Kai Yamamoto, Ranit Chatterjee, Pankaj Joshi, Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting titled 'Mangrove Ecosystems in the Coastal Zone of Kutch, Western India, Used for Traditional Pastoralism: Effects of Climate Change and Social Conditions on Long-Term Biomass Variability'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10509634.2
 
Description 'Old Cities, New Risks' Roundtable 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This roundtable, organised by the TAPESTRY project team, titled 'Old Cities: New Risks' brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders to discuss the risks faced by India's cities in the context of climate change and other uncertainties, and how to respond to them. The main objective of this roundtable was to work with the participants to co-create a better understanding of future risks to India's coastal cities. The roundtable was co-convened by Professor D. Parthasarathy and participants included media, the government, academia, and NGOs/ CSOs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2021/08/26/roundtable-old-cities-new-risks/
 
Description 'One cup of kadak chai': How Mumbai's Koli women survived the coronavirus pandemic' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quotes from TAPESTRY project Co-I Professor D. Parthasarathy, Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay61) and Shibaji Bose (TAPESTRY Consultant) in this article titled 'One cup of kadak chai': How Mumbai's Koli women survived the coronavirus pandemic' and published in the Scroll. The article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Koli fisherwomen in Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://scroll.in/article/989295/one-cup-of-kadak-chai-how-mumbais-koli-women-survived-the-coronavir...
 
Description 'Panel on Humanitarian Work and Research at Risk' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance by TAPESTRY member Mihir Bhatt at a panel on 'Humanitarian Work and Research at Risk' where Mihir underlined the need for humanitarian actions to be transformative with focus on gender, livelihood, and co-creation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Participatory Visual Methods: Glimpses from the Field' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Short film edited by TAPESTRY project member Shibaji Bose which shows a snapshot of two visual methods used in the TAPESTRY project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2022/01/25/participatory-visual-methods-glimpses-from-the-field/
 
Description 'Photo Story: How Could Camel Milk Change the Fortunes of Gujarat's Pastoralists?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Photo story by Ranit Chatterjee, Rohit Jha, Sahjeevan, Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta, Nobuhito Ohte and Shibaji Bose titled 'Photo Story: How Could Camel Milk Change the Fortunes of Gujarat's Pastoralists?'. The photo story examines changes to pastoralism in Kachchh, India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2021/06/22/how-could-camel-milk-change-the-fortunes-of-gujarats-pastora...
 
Description 'Printing The Calamity: Pattachitra Scrolls On Tropical Cyclones And Natural Disasters In Shyamnagar, Shatkhira' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog written by project members Sumaiya Binta Anwar, Mahmuda Akter and Faizah Jaheen Ahmed, from ICCCAD. The blog examines the 'Jubo Shilpigoshthi' performance group and how their indigenous folk forms are being used to spread awareness of extreme climate events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2021/08/16/printing-the-calamity/
 
Description 'Quest for Survival or to the Claws of Death?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Sumaiya Binte Anwar and Mahmuda Mity (ICCCAD TAPESTRY project members) published in the Climate Tribune. The article explores the tiger attacks on humans in the Sundarbans and how this has been impacted by the depletion of forests.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CT_Sep_2021.pdf
 
Description 'Rain and Concrete Can we Change the 'Flooding Cities' Narrative in Anthropocene South Asia' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk by Professor Lyla Mehta and Dr Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University) titled 'Rain and Concrete Can we Change the 'Flooding Cities' Narrative in Anthropocene South Asia' as part of the ISAS-OUS Conference: The City and Environmental History in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdLhZGE_rKA&list=PLwoy9OceNaSdeTv87cvlWDEHVqCfSvJE_&index=2
 
Description 'Rigorous Approach Needed to Study Climate Change' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article in the Hindu titled 'Rigorous approach needed to study climate change' which features information and quotes from TAPESTRY project PI Professor D. Parthasarthy. The article examines Mumbai's response to the study of climate change and the consequences for the city if it is not taken seriously.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/rigorous-approach-needed-to-study-climate-change/article...
 
Description 'Role of Emergent Groups in Strengthening Local Capacity for Disaster Resilience to Urban Floods' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Swati Shinde, D Parthasarathy and N.C. Narayanan titled 'Role of Emergent Groups in Strengthening Local Capacity for Disaster Resilience to Urban Floods' at the 5th World Conference on Disaster Management.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Showing Leadership in Sustainability Science: Lessons from the Global South and Beyond the Academy' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor D Parthasarathy participated as a panel speaker in this session organized by T2S to reflect on and promote global south leadership in sustainability science, part of the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Sundarbans Puts High Hopes on Salt Tolerant Varieties of Paddy' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Mention of findings from the TAPESTRY Project in an article written by Shiv Sahay Singh and published in The Hindu in July 2021. The story also appeared in page one of the Kolkata print edition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/sunderbans-puts-high-hopes-on-salt-tolerant-varie...
 
Description 'Sundarbans without Boundaries: Co-Creating Transformative Knowledge and Action' Roundtable 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Roundtable organised by the TAPESTRY project member ICCCAD and the TAPESTRY project team. The aim of this roundtable was to share insights from recent and ongoing work both in the Indian and Bangladesh Sundarbans. The session was informed by the TAPESTRY project, which has over six years of experiences of action research around uncertainty and transformation, with a focus on livelihood and gender, in the Sundarbans delta. Co-creation of knowledge with researchers by local leaders blur the boundaries-geopolitical and knowledge and ecological-between the two parts of Sundarbans delta. As there are as many similarities as there are dissimilarities, the ongoing collaborative research work explores multiple Sundarbans, simultaneous economic and ecological influences, as well as various ways these influences are interpreted our contextualised by local and non-local individuals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2021/07/26/roundtable-sundarbans-without-boundaries/
 
Description 'Sustainability Frontiers Conference' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation by Professor Lyla Mehta in a session titled 'Decolonising' as part of the Sustainability Frontiers Conference in February 2022, hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute. Professor Mehta was one of four panel members who gave short keynote presentations followed by a discussion session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.sei.org/events/sustainability-frontiers-conference/
 
Description 'Taking the Scare Out of Scarcity: Why 'Perfect Storm' Narratives Serve to Keep the Poor Poor' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Online seminar hosted by ICS-ULisboa. Professor Lyla Mehta gave a talk titled 'Taking the Scare Out of Scarcity: Why 'Perfect Storm' Narratives Serve to Keep the Poor Poor'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/evento/taking-scare-out-scarcity-why-perfect-storm-narratives-serve-ke...
 
Description 'Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Online presentation as part of the global Transformation Conference 2021. The talk focused on how participatory story telling, through visual methods facilitates an engaged process of building knowledge from below by sketching issues of vivencia representing CC, uncertainty, transformative actions in South Asia. The participants discuss potential, limitations and scope for co-creation of knowledge. Speakers included Dr Hans Nicolai Adam, Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Dr Upasona Ghosh, Dr Anindita Saha and Shibaji Bose.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'The Dual Impact of Cyclones and Covid on Food Security in Bangladesh' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact News article by Mahmuda Akter, TAPESTRY project member based at ICCCAD, titled ' The Dual Impact of Cyclones and Covid on Food Security in Bangladesh' and published in the Climate Tribune. The article references the TAPESTRY project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CT_Oct_2021.pdf
 
Description 'The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This Sussex Development Lecture introduces the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book 'The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India'. The book draws on past research on climate change and uncertainty, which has also formed part of the background to the TAPESTRY project. TAPESTRY members Professor Lyla Mehta, Dr Hans Nicolai Adam and Professor Synne Movik will led the lecture and it was chaired by IDS Director Professor Melissa Leach.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2022/02/01/the-politics-of-climate-change-and-uncertainty-in-india/
 
Description 'Through the Eyes of the Kolis: A Reflection on Mumbai's Past Present and Future' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel discussion organised by TAPESTRY partner Bombay61. The panel was made up of Kolis who were discussing the future of the Koli community in Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/through-the-eyes-of-the-kolis-a-reflection-on-mumbais-past-present-fu...
 
Description 'To Weather Climate Change, Mumbai Must Embrace It's Wetness' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quotes by TAPESTRY Co-I D.Parthasarathy and project members Ketaki and Jai Bhadgaonkar (Bombay61) in this article titled 'To Weather Climate Change, Mumbai Must Embrace It's Wetness' published in the Wire.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://science.thewire.in/society/urban/mumbai-climate-change-urban-flooding-cyclones-water-polluti...
 
Description 'Trabsformation as a Praxis: Climate related Uncertainties of the Kolis in Mumbai' - Talk for UMEA institute of Architecture, Sweden. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Bombay61 presented the work undertaken for TAPESTRY project to the students of UMEA institute of Architecture, Sweden.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description 'Transformation as Praxis in Marginal Environments: Reframing Nature-Society Relations, Knowledges and Livelihoods' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Professor Lyla Mehta titled 'Transformation as Praxis in Marginal Environments: Reframing Nature-Society Relations, Knowledges and Livelihoods'. This was part of the 'Imagining the Environment: Climate Change, Rivers and Political Ecology in India' lecture series hosted by The Riverine Rights Project at Oslo Met.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2021/09/30/lyla-mehta-on-transformation-as-praxis-in-marginal-environme...
 
Description 'Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pre-recorded presentation as part of the global Transformation Conference 2021 of a paper titled 'Transformation As Praxis: Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia', written by Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava, Synne Movik, Hans Nicolai Adam, Rohan D'Souza, Devanathan Parthasarathy, Lars Otto Naess, Nobuhito Ohte.

The following is an abstract of the paper presented: 'This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed as part of an ongoing project (TAPESTRY - Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments). We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from 'below' in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis - where the focus is on bottom-up change, identities, wellbeing and the recovery of agency by marginalized people and explore how 'patches' and the 'marginal' offer critical conceptual templates to examine whether and how systemic transformative changes are being assembled and effected on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. We also discuss potential challenges of such engagements, alongside pursuing a normative and political approach to transformations to sustainability.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Transformation is Required from 'Below': Understanding the Bottom-Up Approaches in Locally-Led Adaptation' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Mahmuda Mity and Tasfia Tasnim, from TAPESTRY project partner ICCCAD, titled 'Transformation is required from 'below': Understanding the bottom-up approaches in locally-led adaptation' which was published in the Dhaka Tribune. The article explores their reflections from the project and how it aligns with Locally Led Adaptation, building on one of the sessions conducted by the TAPESTRY team at the Gobeshona conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CT_March_2021.pdf
 
Description 'Transformations from Below: Wellbeing and Sustainability in Marginal Urban Spaces' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk given by Professor Lyla Mehta titled ' Transformations from Below: Wellbeing and Sustainability in Marginal Urban Spaces' at the seminar series titled 'Integrando el bienestar y la sustentabilidad en el espacio urbano. Investigación, medición y políticas' organised by the National Autonomous University of Mexico on the 23rd March 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As part of the Transformations 2021 Conference, a live Q&A session with the TAPESTRY team and authors of the following presentations: Hans Adam 'Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai', Shilpi Srivastava 'Dryland transformations: Reviving pastoralist livelihoods in Kutch, India', Ranit Chatterjee 'Integration of New and Future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch' and Synne Movik 'Transformation As Praxis: Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://attend.sri2021.org/meetings/virtual/wvCAqj6eubJcCPCRC
 
Description 'Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Event organised jointly by the TAPESTRY project and ICCCAD as part of the Cop-26 conference in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. Speakers included TAPESTRY members Professor Nobuhito Ohte, Professor Lyla Mehta, Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Professor D. Parthasarathy and Mihir Bhatt. The event explored how transformation may arise 'from below' in marginal environments with high levels of climate change uncertainty. Drawing from the field work and related insights, the team shared some key action areas that can aim to bridge the gaps to achieve greater coherence and impact, with a focus on aspects of gender, livelihood, wellbeing, and use of geospatial technologies. This was a hybrid event and took place at the South Asian Regional Resilience Hub on the 7th November.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
 
Description 'Transforming the future of a climate change hotspot: the vulnerable Sundarbans' - TAPESTRY visual methods panel at the Delta Futures Conference, Durham. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY visual methods panel at the Delta Futures Conference, Durham.Introduces the Tapestry project's focus on
transformation as praxis where the focus is on bottom-up change, identities, wellbeing and the recovery of agency by
marginalized people. It looks at how transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations help elicit stories and narratives from
below and the margins to counter elite perceptions of lands and livelihoods and neo-liberal processes of accumulation of
contested resources in deltas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://deltafutures.co.uk/
 
Description 'Uncertainty and Transformation: Looking Back and Looking Forward' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel discussion by Professor Lyla Mehta, Dr Synne Movik, Professor Devanathan Parthasarathy and Professor Coleen Vogel and chaired by Dr Shilpi Srivastava. This panel was part of the ESRC STEPS Centre event 'Pathways to Sustainability: Knowledge, Politics and Power'. This session will focus on the links between climate change uncertainty and transformation. Speakers explored how and under what conditions uncertainty can open up opportunities for transformation highlighting the synergies and tensions about temporality, accountability, responsibility and ethics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-to-sustainability-knowledge-politics-and-power/
 
Description 'Understanding Tipping Points for Transformational Adaptations for Urban Floods in the Context of Climate Extremes' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Swati Sinde, Professor NC Narayanan and Professor D Parthasarathy at the Transformations 2021 conference. The presentation was titled 'Understanding Tipping Points for Transformational Adaptations for Urban Floods in the Context of Climate Extremes'.

Here is an abstract for the paper presentation: 'The city of Mumbai is highly susceptible to impacts of urban flooding exacerbated due to climate change. Current flood management practices are response led, short term and adhoc in nature; focusing narrowly on engineering-based solutions such as drainage pipes, retaining walls and pumping stations, which alone are unlikely to solve the problem. The situation demands a shift towards proactive, inclusive, and holistic approach. The paper illustrates proactive measures taken by communities, political leaders and emergent groups, which serve as positive tipping points for adaptive flood management in an informal settlement located in chronic flood prone area within the catchment of Dahisar river in Mumbai. It provides an in-depth analysis of the networks, conditions, belief, motivations, value systems which caused these interventions to arise along with gaps and barriers. The research strives to design a transformational rather than coping and adaptive approach, to be more sustainable in the long run for responding to urban floods. The learnings can contribute to design of policies, practices and procedures for sustainable urban planning and local flood governance and enhanced knowledge by integrating future climate change risks in urban planning practice and disaster governance.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2021
 
Description 'Water, Food Security and Social Justice' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Lyla Mehta gave the keynote guest lecture titled 'Water, Food Security and Social Justice' at the University of Calgary in November 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description 'Where Getting Drinkable Water is an Everyday Struggle' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article written by Md Ridwan Bin Alam Diganta and Mahmuda Akter (ICCCAD, TAPESTRY Member) titled 'Where Getting Drinkable Water is an Everyday Struggle'. The article was published in the Dhaka Tribute and is built upon and references research from the TAPESTRY project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.dhakatribune.com/climate-change/2021/06/01/where-getting-drinkable-water-is-an-everyday-s...
 
Description 'World Water Day: Water Could Both Starve and Drown India as Climate Change Intensifies' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quote by project PI Professor D.Parthasarathy concerning climate change in Chennai in an article titled 'World Water Day: Water Could Both Starve and Drown India as Climate Change Intensifies'. This was published in The Times of India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2020-03-21-world-water-day-water-both-starve-drown-india-c...
 
Description ?????? ??? ???????? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ('Koli community battles coastal road project') 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article titled ?????? ??? ???????? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ('Koli community battles coastal road project'), published in Down To Earth.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.downtoearth.org.in/hindistory/wildlife-biodiversity/tribals/jharkhand-why-tribals-are-op...
 
Description A Disasters: Deconstructed webinar on post-disaster research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance by TAPESTRY project member Mihir Bhatt at the 'A Disasters: Deconstructed Webinar on Post-Disaster Research', in which Mihir pointed out the need for more co-created research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Adocacy Meeing: Sharing TAPESTRY Indian Sundarbans research with stakeholders 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Advocacy meeting to present the voice of photovoice women farmers' group with the Block Development Officer (administrative head of the block, which is the lowest administrative unit), head of local self government and other officers of the general administration, local civil society participated. The women through the photos and narratives presented the climate uncertainty, the challenges, the local level transformational initiatives like saline tolerant paddy, organic vegetables that they have undertaken and what kind of support that they need from the state. Subsequently, after the meeting at the block and the district the women had met the State Environment Minister to present the finding from the photovoice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Art Interventions Light Up Versova Koliwada 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article discussing Bombay61's placemaking activities that have transformed community spaces at Versova Koliwada
working with local Koli artists
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.thedesigncollective.co.in/post/art-interventions-light-up-versova-koliwada
 
Description Article on hrough the Eyes of the Kolis: A reflection on Mumbai's past, present and future exhibition 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on hrough the Eyes of the Kolis: A reflection on Mumbai's past, present and future exhibition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.gqindia.com/get-smart/content/mumbai-catch-a-new-digital-photography-exhibition-that-exp...
 
Description Article: How does climate change affect the living conditions of vulnerable people in exposed areas? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Article discussing the TAPESTRY project and how it is contributing to sustainabilty driven from the grassroots level. https://forskersonen.no/klima-meninger-populaervitenskap/hvordan-pavirker-klimaendringene-livsvilkarene-tilsarbare- mennesker-i-utsatte-omrader/2008045
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Article: Koli community's solution to clean up Mumbai's creeks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Report on Mumbai Ministry of Magic webiste on the Koli fishing net instalation by Bombay61.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ministryofmumbaismagic.com/new-catch-in-town/
 
Description Article: The Complex Life of Banni 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article written by Aathira Perinchery tited 'The Complex Life of Banni' which was published in Mongabay. Professor Lyla Mehta and Dr Shilpi Srivastava's article on pastoralism in Kutch (Nomadic Peoples 2019) was cited in this article. The journalist also interviewed Lyla by email and used some quotes in the article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://india.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-complex-of-life-of-banni-gujarat/
 
Description Blog 'A Tale of Crab Farming in Satkhira: Navigating Uncertainties 'from below' in the Sundarbans' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog was written by Shababa Haque and Mahmuda Mity who are part of the TAPESTRY research team in Bangladesh. This blog titled 'A Tale of Crab Farming in Satkhira: Navigating Uncertainties 'from below' in the Sundarbans' aimed to share the story of people living on the 'front line' of drastic environmental changes in the Sundarbans. This blog engaged with the overarching theme of the TAPESTRY research project of how transformations may occur 'from below in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Blog Post 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post written by Nathan Oxley, communication and impacts manager at the STEPS centre, titled 'Views from the Coast: Uncertainty Beyone Climate Change' . This blog post intended to draw on a visit undertaken as part of the TAPESTRY, project to Versova, Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/views-coast-uncertainty-beyond-climate-change/
 
Description Blog Post 'Cities, Uncertainty and Systems Change' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post written by Becky Ayre, project support and communications officer at the STEPS centre. This blog titled 'Cities, Uncertainty and Systems Change' examined a talk given by project lead Lyla Mehta on the TAPESTRY project. This blog acts as an overview of some of the themes of TAPESTRY, specifically in relation to the Koliwada community in Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/cities-uncertainty-and-systems-change/
 
Description Blog Why sustainability sciences must be decolonised 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog by Professor Lyla Mehta arguing that the social sciences must be decolonisted.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2022/04/25/why-sustainability-sciences-must-be-decolonised/
 
Description Blog on Ideation Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog post was written by Jai and Kataki Bhadgaonkar of Bombay 61, based in Mumbai. This blog post aimed to outline the process and results of an ideation workshop that they facilitated in 2019 with the Koli community in Versova Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/a-participatory-approach-to-initiating-transformative-actions-from-the...
 
Description Blog post: 'A 'Natural Disaster' on Top of a Pandemic - Preparedness in the Face of Cascading Uncertainties' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Shibaji Bose titled 'A 'Natural Disaster' on Top of a Pandemic - Preparedness in the Face of Cascading Uncertainties'. The blog generated interest among Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) communities in India. Our partner, AIDMI, used the concept in five planning meetings of DRR civil society and made three presentations where this concept was introduced:
a. When Disasters Collide: Managing Disasters in the context of Covid-19 in South Asia, by Duryog Nivaran and Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka, June 30th 2020.
b. Women and Work in Pandemics: Resilience and Recovery by Duryog Nivaran and Dhaka University, July 28th 2020.
c. City and Risk: Achievements and Opportunities by Habitat Forum (INHAF), Duryog Nivaran and All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, August 21st 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/a-natural-disaster-on-top-of-a-pandemic-preparedness-in-the-face-of-ca...
 
Description Blog post: Local Knowledge and Ideas are Key to Action on Climate Disruption' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post written by Nathan Oxley, communication and impacts manager at the STEPS centre, titled 'Local Knowledge and Ideas are Key to Action on Climate Disruption'. This blog acts to outline the research of the TAPESTRY project with a focus on each of the projects geographical areas: the Sundarbans, Mumbai and Kutch. The blog also provides contact details for editors and gives an overview of the TAPESTRY project, including funder information and institutions involved.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/news/local-knowledge-and-ideas-are-key-to-action-on-climate-disruption/
 
Description Blog: A Big-Picture View on the Climate Negotiations: How Can Transformation(s) Happen in Practice? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Synne Movik and Hans Nicolai Adams titled 'A Big-Picture View on the Climate Negotiations: How Can Transformation(s) Happen in Practice?'. The blog takes a historical perspective to argue that the transformations needed to combat climate change will not be the result of an orchestrated endeavour, but a complex combination of many factors over a long time span.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.steps-centre.org/blog/a-big-picture-view-on-the-climate-negotiations-how-can-transformati...
 
Description Blog: Claiming Space: Infrastructure, Uncertainty and Fisherfolks' Livelihoods in Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Synne Movik and Hans Nicolai Adams titled 'Claiming Space: Infrastructure, Uncertainty and Fisherfolks' Livelihoods in Mumbai'. The blog examines the Koli Fisherfolk in Mumbai, their practices, livelihoods and the uncertainty that surrounds these due to climate change, commercialization, pollution and urbanisation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.steps-centre.org/blog/claiming-space-infrastructure-uncertainty-and-fisherfolks-livelihoo...
 
Description Blog: Co-production of Knowledge through Collaborative Learning 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog written by Lalatendu Keshari Das titled 'Co-production of Knowledge through Collaborative Learning' which was published on the Transformations to Sustainability website. The blog outlines Lalatendu's reflections on the POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) 2020 conference, which took place virtually in September 2020 and in which the TAPESTRY project led two sessions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://t2sresearch.org/output/co-production-of-knowledge-through-collaborative-learning/
 
Description Blog: How Pastoralists in Kutch Respond to Social and Environmental Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog by Lyla Mehta, Mihir Bhatt and Pankaj Joshi titled 'How Pastoralists in Kutch Respond to Social and Environmental Uncertainty'. This blog introduce the research that TAPESTRY is undertaking together with the Kutch camel breeder association Kutch Unt Ucherak Maldhari Sangathan (KUUMS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-pastoralists-in-kutch-respond-to-social-and-environmental-un...
 
Description Blog: How do we Study Mangrove Ecology with Pastoralists in Kachchh? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Ranit Chaterjee, Pankaj Joshi, Mahendra Bhanani, Mahesh Garva and Nobuhito Ohte titled 'How do we Study Mangrove Ecology with Pastoralists in Kachchh?'. This blog post describes how members of the TAPESTRY project have been working together with pastoralists to set up a research protocol that explores questions relating to the effects of camel grazing and cutting on mangroves and how pastoralists and camels interact with the mangroves, as well as the seasonal effects on mangroves and how mangrove cover has changed over time.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-we-study-mangrove-ecology-with-pastoralists-in-kachchh/
 
Description Blog: New Online Exhibition: 'Extracting Us' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Nathan Oxley titled 'New Online Exhibition: 'Extracting Us'. The blog provides information on the 'Extracting Us' exhibition, one of the exhibits is a series of photos from the TAPESTRY project, which explores work with fishing communities in Mumbai, and draws on a Photovoice conducted there.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/news/new-online-exhibition-extracting-us/
 
Description Blog: Pollinating Knowledge through the POLLEN Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Ranit Chatterjee titled 'Pollinating Knowledge through the POLLEN Conference' which is published on the Transformations to Sustainability website. This blog post reflects on the two TAPESTRY-led sessions that took place as part of the virtual POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) 2020 conference, in September 2020. Ranit reflects on the sessions that were conducted by TAPESTRY and the lessons learnt through his attendance at the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://t2sresearch.org/output/pollinating-knowledge-through-the-pollen-conference/
 
Description Blog: Rebuilding Same or Rebuilding Different? Critical Questions in the Aftermath of Cyclone Amphan 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Blog post by Upasona Ghosh, Shibaji Bose and Debdatta Chakraborty titled 'Rebuilding Same or Rebuilding Different? Critic\al Questions in the Aftermath of Cyclone Amphan' examining the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan in the Sundarbans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/rebuilding-same-or-rebuilding-different-critical-questions-in-the-afte...
 
Description Blog: Sharing Knowledge instead of Food: TAPESTRY at the Versova Koli seafood festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog by Lalatendu Keshari Das titled 'Sharing Knowledge instead of Food: TAPESTRY at the Versova Koli seafood festival'. In the blog he shares news from the project's Mumbai team, which is conducting research that examines the ways in which fishing communities adapt to uncertainties in the city. It outlined the work presented by the Mumbai team at the Versova Koli seafood festival in January 2020. The blog shows that over 350 people engaged with the stall over the period of the festival, it also shares the feedback and reflections from the TAPESTRY team.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.steps-centre.org/blog/sharing-knowledge-instead-of-food-tapestry-at-the-versova-koli-seaf...
 
Description Blog: Should Sustainability Sciences be Decolonised 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog by Professor Lyla Mehtadiscussing the decolonisation of the social sciences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://lidc.ac.uk/should-sustainability-sciences-be-decolonised/
 
Description Blog: Transformation in a Crisis: Reflections on Research and Action 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Lyla Mehta titled 'Transformation in a Crisis: Reflections on Research and Action'. The blog is a personal reflection by Lyla on the Transformations to Sustainability mid-term workshop, which took place virtually in June 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/transformation-in-a-crisis-reflections-on-research-and-action/
 
Description Book Launch Webinar/ Sussex Development Lecture: The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India.

Speakers

Professor Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow, IDS and Visiting Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Research Fellow, IDS
Dr Hans Nicolai Adam, Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Dr Upasona Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health
Dr Synne Movik, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Dr Subir Dey, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, India

Chair: Dr Lars Otto Naess, Research Fellow,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHURMsWIHhM
 
Description Cities Webinar organized by the India Habitat Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact D. Parthasarathy, Panel Speaker at the Rethinking Cities Webinar organized by the India Habitat Forum on "Climate Emergency: How Safe or Vulnerable are Indian Coastal Cities?", 18 Oct 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Civil Servant Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The team members represented the project in a meeting with a civil servant - on COP26 - associated with the International Development Committee, the UK Parliament.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Climate Change and Climate Justice: Webinar: Alternative Futures for Inseparable Challenges, Climate change, climate solutions and climate colonialism, University of Cambridge (panellist) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Shilpi Srivastava participated as a panellist in this session which sought to provide space for thought leaders from the Global South to weigh in on what it means to dismantle inherent structures of 'climate colonialism'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGog_l3wsfs
 
Description Co-creation and transformative change for adaptation: Lessons from the transboundary TAPESTRY project (2018-2022). Online Roundtable on Co-Creating Transformative Knowledge and Action. AIDMI, Ahmedabad, Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 03:00 to 04:00 pm (IST) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact AIDMI organised a roundtable to highlight links between co-creating knowledge, societal transformations and sustainability. Lars Otto Naess participated as a panellist.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Conference Presentation: "Mapping changes in indigenous pastoral ecology in West India: Impact evaluation of climate change and socio-economic changes using participatory mapping and geographical information system" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact American Geophysical Union conference session on Native Science to Action: How Indigenous Perspectives Inform, Diversify, and Build Capacity in Environmental Science and Policy. The presentation was titled 'Mapping changes in indigenous pastoral ecology in West India: Impact evaluation of climate change and socio-economic changes using participatory mapping and geographical information system' and was given by Nobuhito Ohte.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=97-0E-3E-44-B3-72-26-95-7C-03-1B-B...
 
Description Conference Presentation: ''When the boat is sinking': Tales of uncertainty, resilience and transformation through visual stories and narratives' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY session at the Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) in September 2020. This story telling session aimed to sketch issues of vivencia (lived experiences) representing climate change, uncertainty and transformative actions in South Asia through visual media. The following presentations were given:

- 'Reversing the Gaze: A photovoice exploration of how 'change' is perceived by the Jat herders in Kutch, India' presented by Dr Shilpi Srivastava.
- 'Memory, history and place; the Puthi and Dalit literature of the Sundarbans' presented by Dr Deboiyoti Das.
- 'On marginalization, extraction and resistance - A case from Uran Koliwada (village), Mumbai, India' presented by Dr Hans Adam.
- 'From vulnerability to transformation of gender role: Photo voice experience of Sundarbans' women amidst climate change' presented by Dr Upasona Ghosh.
- 'Experiencing climate change: Voices of Children from the Indian Sundarbans' presented by Dr Anindita Saha.

This session facilitated feedback and networking opportunities with other researchers working in similar areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://event.pollen2020.exordo.com/session/140/when-the-boat-is-sinking-tales-of-uncertainty-resili...
 
Description Conference Presentation: 'Transformations in Marginal Environments: Reframing Natures, Knowledges, and Livelihoods' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference presentation at the The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) in September 2020. Within this session the following talks were given by members of the TAPESTRY team which introduced the insights and reflections from the TAPESTRY project so far:

- Transformations from 'below': Praxis, patches and politics' presented by Professor Lyla Mehta
- 'Co-producing the linked futures of fisherfolk and the city: Transforming in and with Mumbai' presented by Professor D. Parthasarathy
- 'Claiming space: Environmental law and Koli fisherfolk's claims to coastal commons in Mumbai' presented by Dr Synne Movik
- 'Landscape in transition: Milk, Maldharis and mangroves in the 'marketised' landscape of Kutch' presented by Dr Shilpi Srivastava
- 'Transformation, co-production and uncertainty in the Sundarbans' presented by Dr Upasona Ghosh.
- 'Floods, Earthquakes and Famines: Normalising "uncertain" coastal environments in the long nineteenth century in Colonial India' presented by Professor Vinita Damodaran.

The session facilitated feedback and networking opportunities with other researchers working in similar areas.




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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://event.pollen2020.exordo.com/session/160/transformations-in-marginal-environments-reframing-n...
 
Description Conference Session: Transforming Environments from the Bottom-up - Examples from Marginal Environments in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY conference session titled 'Transforming Environments from the Bottom-up - Examples from Marginal Environments in India' that was given as part of the virtual Gobeshona Conference in January 2021. This talk focused on the Mumbai and Kutch field sites with the following presentations given:

- 'Transformation from 'below': Praxis, patches and politics', by Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava , Lars Otto Naess (IDS), Synne Movik (NMBU), D. Parthasarathy and Lalatendu Kesari Das (IITB) , Hans Adam (NIVA), Nobu Ohte (Kyoto University).

- 'Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai', by Ketaki Bhadgaonkar, Jai Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61); D. Parthasarathy and Lalatendu Kesari Das (IITB) , Hans Nicolai Adam (NIVA), Synne Movik (NMBU).

- 'Co-production to facilitate bottom-up adaptation: insights from co-learning with the Jat herders in Kutch', by Ranit Chatterjee and Rohit Jha (Kyoto University); Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta (IDS); Pankaj Joshi and Mahendra Bhanani (Sahjeevan).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/transforming-environments-from-the-bottom-up-examples-from-marginal-e...
 
Description Conference Session:Beyond scarcity & control: Embracing uncertainty, care & plural ways of knowing & doing in water 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This conference engages with the transformations needed to deal with - adapt to, learn to live with, help solve, remedy or prevent - problems caused by climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressure as they become manifest in/through water. Professor Lyla Mehta gave a keynote speech on "Beyond scarcity & control: Embracing uncertainty, care & plural ways of knowing & doing in water"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://muse.edu.umontpellier.fr/en/2022/05/30/margreet-zwarteveens-event-caring-matters-in-knowing-...
 
Description Conference on Achieving Net Zero 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Shilpi Srivastava looking at the need to integrate bottom-up perspectives, co-produce ideas with stakeholders in order to achieve a transformative Net Zero scenario
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Conference session: 'Sundarbans without Boundaries' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY conference session titled 'Sundarbans without Boundaries' that was given as part of the virtual Gobeshona Conference in January 2021. This session focused on the Sundarbans area in West Bengal and Bangladesh, where islanders are battling sea level rise, salinity intrusion and cyclones. The session discusses the work being done by the TAPESTRY project in both West Bengal and Bangladesh among people and organizations on the edges of the Sundarbans forest, where livelihoods are challenged by existing problems and magnified by climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/sundarbans-without-boundaries/
 
Description Confernce Session: Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK ICCCAD: Unpacking uncertainty and transformation through participatory visual methods from transboundary Sundarbans: 'lived experiences and stories of change from 'below' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The story telling session aimed at sketching the issues of vivencia (lived experiences) representing climate change, uncertainty and transformative actions in transboundary Sundarbans through visual media. Through photos, narratives and children the stories of history and sense of place was told from the vantage point of women, youth and children of the marginalized communities (Strathern, 2013) that are at the forefront of climate change. And the resultant uncertainty through their everyday experiences.



Aimed to facilitate an engaged process of building knowledge thus supporting robust public and civil society engagement that can eventually foster positive social change from below. It enables various marginal communities of practice to contribute experiential knowledge, thus providing an embedded understanding of a phenomenon and thereby facilitating a shared responsibility for taking action. As a part of broader agenda of community participation, stories through visual methods seek to build critical consciousness within a community to construct and forge knowledge and take action (Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970).

Speakers
Shibaji Bose(Speaker)Independent Consultant
Adiba Kamal(Speaker)ICCCAD
Anindita Saha(Speaker)
Vinita Damodaran(Speaker)
Mihir Bhatt(Speaker)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://conference.gobeshona.net/ggc2/programme/
 
Description Consortium Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hybrid workshop organised by the TAPESTRY team which took place over 4 days from the 7th-10th March 2022. TAPESTRY members attended either in person in Mumbai or online via Zoom. The purpose of the meeting was to allow for each patch to present their findings from the project so far as well as to present their future plans for their work until the end of the project in September 2022. The workshop also provided a space for the team to discuss cross-patch themes and the final outputs they planned for the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Engagement Session: Mangrove Schools Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact First introductory engagement session of the Mangrove Schools Project organised remotely by Professor Vinita Damodaran and Dr Anindita Saha. This was organised to document and observe the experiences and anxieties of the students in the 12-18 years age group on the context of uncertainty they regularly experience in their locality in the Sundarbans. Participating students shared their experiences and anxieties through painted and written narratives.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Gobeshona Conference closing session 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation by Professor Lyla Mehta in a roundtable with session organizers which was part of the closing session of the Gobeshona conference on 24th January 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Gobeshona Confernce: From 'bridges' to 'flows' - bringing together plural understandings of climate change and uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact There is a 'globalising instinct' in climate change science that tends to favour global-scale models and measurements, and that often neglects the lived realities, experiences, and knowledges of people living in the localities where the effects of climate change manifest themselves. National policies on adaptation are informed by such global assessments, and there is often a limited understanding - and appreciation - of local experiences and knowledges of climate change and its related uncertainties, leading to policies and strategies that are not conducive to local people's adaptation strategies. Efforts to 'bridge' such gaps have taken the form of focusing on knowledge co-creation and bringing together stakeholders in settings that can facilitate conversations across diverse epistemologies and disciplinary fields, in attempts to foster greater appreciation and understanding of plural perspectives. Recognising that language and the terms we use, matter, this paper argues for a shift from talking about 'bridging' gaps in knowledge - which suggests a two-way connection between two bodies of knowledge - to instead thinking about ways in which polysemic epistemologies can be brought together in 'flows' of knowledge, that fuse, mingle and mix to create new currents of understanding of uncertainty and climate change.

Speakers
Lyla Mehta(Speaker)IDS
Adiba Kamal(Speaker)ICCCAD
D.Parthasarathy(Speaker)Professor, IIT Bombay
Synne Movik(Speaker)NMBU, Norway
Upasona Ghosh(Speaker)IIPH, Bhubaneswar
Mahmuda Akter(Speaker)SAJIDA Foundation , Senior Research Officer
Shilpi Srivastava(Speaker)
Hans Adam(Speaker)NIVA, Norway
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://conference.gobeshona.net/ggc2/programme/
 
Description Gobeshona Global Conference 3 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Tapestry project session titled "Pathways to Transformation: Coastal and Delta Communities" at the Gobeshona Global Conference 3. This session will bring together a panel of experts to discuss rapidly unfolding opportunities and possible collaborations. The session and related discussion will look at transformative alliances between actors-local communities, NGOs, scientists, and state agencies-that seek socially just, and ecologically sound alternatives based on local people's plural understandings of what transformation entails.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description History should not be repeated-The untold stories of the present-day youth' - Hidden History Conference, CWEH, Brighton 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation by Dr Anindita Saha at the Hidden History Conference, CWEH, Brighton. Presenting on the
Mangrove school project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Ideation Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A workshop was organised by Jai and Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) in the village of Versova Koliwade. This aimed to initiate a dialogue regarding the TAPESTRY project with the local Koli organisations and the community. It brought together people from different social layers in the community, resulting in an enriching environment to brainstorm ideas that can assist adaptation, well-being, transformation and preservation of the area's identity. Participation, interaction and ideation were primary motives for the ideation workshop, to help formulate transformative interventions and form a core group of local fishers, young professional Kolis and members of the Bombay 61 team. This group will be central to the implementation process of TAPESTRY in Mumbai, as well as the post-implementation assessment following the course of the research project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/a-participatory-approach-to-initiating-transformative-actions-from-the...
 
Description Indo-German Cooperation and Global Environmental Risks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact D. Parthasarathy, Panel Speaker at the TUM Global Dialogue on "Indo-German Cooperation and Global Environmental Risks", Technische Universität München, 25 Nov 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Industries, Infrastructures and Blue Economy: Coastal Transformation and Contested Development in the context of Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact "Conference presentation - Parthasarathy, D. ""Industries, Infrastructures and Blue Economy: Coastal Transformation and Contested
Development in the context of Climate Change"" paper presented at the 3rd Knowledge Summit, organized by the
French Institute in India, 24-26 Nov 2021"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Inhabited Sea Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by D.Parthasarathy (co-investigator) at the Inhabited Sea Workshop held at the University of Pennsylvania on the 12th and 13th January 2019. This talk was titled 'Floods and Coastal Vulnerability'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Introducing TAPESTRY: A Trans Disciplinary Project Exploring Seeds of Transformation to Reduce Disaster and Climate Change Induced Uncertainties in Marginal Environments 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a presentation given by Ranit Chatterjee, postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University, at the The Fourth Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction, sponsored by the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes. This talk aimed to introduce the TAPESTRY project to the audience. This took place at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Introduction to TAPESTRY project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Nobuhito Ohte at Annual Meeting of the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU). This poster presentation titled Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY) aimed at introducing the TAPESTRY project to the audience mainly at the earth science communities. Their fields included climate change, human dimensions of climate change such as disaster effects on society.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote: Mistra Urban Futures Annual Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lyla Mehta gave a keynote at the Mistra Urban Futures annual conference on Realising Just Cities at the University of Sheffield in October 2019. She presented emerging empirical work from the Mumbai component of the project and also discussed the conceptual framework linking uncertainty, transformation and co production.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Keynote: Political Ecology in Asia Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lyla Mehta gave a keynote address at this first ever conference on Political Ecology in Asia in Bangkok on October 11, 2019. It provided an opportunity to introduce, discuss and get feedback on the overall conceptual underpinnings of the project linking climate change, uncertainty and transformation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Local exhibition and roundtable at Sundarbans in April, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Local exhibition in the Sundarbans showcasing student artwork from the mangroves school project. The artwork was produced
in a series of workshops by the TAPESTRY project in two vernacular co-education schools, children aged between 12 to 18
years. The art was aimed at showing lived experiences of children living in climate change induced uncertainty.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Local student Roundtable Kultali 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In the roundtable discussion session students were asking multiple questions to the local stakeholders regarding improvement of
education, health and transportation system, asking about secured livelihoods, concretization of the embankments, preserving
bio-diversity and indigenous knowledge, plantation of mangrove along the riverside etc. Such a kind of discussion helped to coproduce capacity building knowledge. Local policymakers had assured students that they would help them to amplify their
unheard voices to the higher authority of the state. The stakeholders also suggested to provide training for the development of
artistic and creative skills as they referred them nothing less than artists
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Mangrove School Project: Second Introductory Engagement Session 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Second engagement session organised as part of the Mangrove Schools project. Our purpose was to document the students anxieties, experiences, ideas etc. regarding uncertainties and climate change.

Outcomes from the workshop-
i. Oral narratives (audio-visually documented)
ii. Written narratives (translated in English)
iii. Painting narratives (including poster and 3-D paintings using naturally available materials such as algae, mustard seeds, wooden sticks, twigs of plants, cotton, paddy seeds etc.)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Mid Term Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Three day consortium-wide meeting with involved all project members. The meeting was held online and brought together people from the UK, India and Japan. Information was shared from each patch as well as thematic discussions, communications plans and conversations around project plans and the need for adaptation during COVID-19.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description National Roundtable on Pathways to Transformation: Coastal, Delta, and Desert Communities, Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders to discuss rapidly unfolding opportunities and possible collaborations. The objectives of the roundtable were: Review and assess the current pathways in the marginal environments and how can they become transformative. To explore how coastal areas in India and South Asia, with the metro cities such as Mumbai, can develop "from below" with local voices and insights leading the alternative sustainable processes. To showcase the work of local communities in the Sundarbans delta in India and Bangladesh with an eye on climate justice, transboundary opportunities, and multiple collaborations based on plural understanding of transformation. To expand and build on participatory visual methods co-created by local communities and researchers. To consolidate what we know about coastal wetlands, with a focus on mangroves, and desert pastoralism from the point of view of local to global alliances aiming at social justice and ecologically sound alternatives, especially for the pastoral youth. To plan strategies to make the transformative pathways more effective, efficient, coherent, just, and impactful
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Online Stakeholder Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Online stakeholder workshop hosted by the TAPESTRY Indian Sundarbans Team (Dr Upasona Ghosh, Shibaji Bose, Dr PallabDey, Anshuman Das, Amitava Roy, Debdatta Chakraborty) and moderated by TAPESTRY member Mihir Bhatt.

The workshop aimed to initiate a discussion with practitioners, academics and activists involved in development efforts in Sundarbans on the kind of bottom up, people led transformation needed to improve the lives and livelihoods of the local communities in the delta.

The discussions in the workshop drew attention to the multifaceted nature of vulnerabilities in the Sundarbans and revealed newer dimensions of transformative change. While proximity to the city increases the risk of diseases like COVID-19, distance from the urban centres keeps the interior islands of the delta away from developmental initiatives, adding to their socio-economic vulnerabilities. The repeated risks posed by frequent disasters, people's experiences of climate change, the uniqueness of coastal agriculture and fishing practices, the need for terrain specific disaster resistant coastal architecture and climate resilient dwellings based on rural resources and technology were important takeaways from the workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Online Workshop: The Effects of Using Saline Water 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Online workshop in which journalists were provided with perspectives about the on-going salinity impacts on women's health. This was a supportive activity for the journalists in order for them to write their news pieces with scientific evidence.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Panel on 'Climate Migration in the Indian Subcontinent' at India Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance by TAPESTRY project member Mihir Bhatt at a panel on 'Climate Migration in the Indian Subcontinent'. Mihir raised the challenges of arid area, coastal, metropolitan and delta areas related migration in India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Photo Voice Interface: 'ma er mukhe matir kotha' (hear the stories of the soil from the mothers). 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Two community level interfaces with the grassroots panchayat leaders who had spoken about the uniqueness of this visual research initiative to their colleagues at the block level. The block administration led by the BDO, block panchayat led by the Sabhapati and two standing committee leads of the local self government (women and child welfare and health) travelled to the TAPESTRY villages to hear from the mothers communicating through their pictures and narratives. Instead of the mothers traveling to the block headquarters the venue of the meeting was the local flood shelter. The local women farmers titled the initiative 'ma er mukhe matir kotha' (hear the stories of the soil from the mothers).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://twitter.com/LRRMission/status/1523603726392385536
 
Description Possibilities of participatory visual research methods A commentary from Bangladesh and Indian Sundarbans 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Commentary on the visual methods embedded in the Bangladesh and Indian Sundarbans, whihc seek to sketch issues of
vivencia (lived experiences) representing climate change, uncertainty, and transformative actions in South Asia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.dhakatribune.com/tribune-climate/2022/08/04/possibilities-of-participatory-visual-resear...
 
Description Presentation at 10th MARE Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by D. Parthasarathy (co-investigator) at the '10th MARE Conference on People and the Sea: Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future' held at the University of Amsterdam in June 2019. This talk was titled 'Anthropo-Sea: Reassessing Ocean Grab and Coastal Squeeze in the context of Climate Change Perspectives from Asia'. This talk aimed to re-assess and take stock of the current status of the usage and deployment of the concepts of "ocean grab" and "coastal squeeze", as a preliminary to outlining a framework to study the historically unprecedented scale of shifts and transformations that are affecting our coasts and oceans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.marecentre.nl/2019-people-the-sea-conference/
 
Description Presentation at 4th World Congress on Disaster Management 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of a paper titled 'Study the changes in Coastal Regulation Zone rules and spatially analyze the effects on coastal areas with the help of Remote Sensing and GIS: A case study from the East coast of India' was made by Sindhuja Kasthala (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Inamdar A (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Parthasarathy D (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) at the 4th World Congress on Disaster Management held in Mumbai in January 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.wcdm.info/program-agenda.php
 
Description Presentation at Kyoto Climate Science Dialogue 2019: Production Landscapes and SDGs 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Nobuhito Ohte at Kyoto Climate Science Dialogue 2019: Production Landscapes and SDGs. This talk titled 'Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY)' aimed at introducing the TAPESTRY project to the audience at this international networking workshop that was made up on international organizations, research institutes, development institutions, and practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.cifor.org/event/kyoto-climate-change-science-dialogue-2019-production-landscapes-and-sdg...
 
Description Presentation: Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference presentation by Shilpi Srivastava and Synne Movik at the Transformations to Sustainability Virtual Workshop: The Politics of Transformative Research, in June 2020. The talk drew on the findings from the Kutch patch. The presentation allowed for feedback and networking opportunities with other researchers working in similar areas. Professor Lyla Mehta was also a panelist at this workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Press Release: Exhibition shows threats to Mumbai's artisanal fishers by large construction projects 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release on the TAPESTRY contribution to the 'Extracting us' exhibition that focused on how two major construction projects in Mumbai are threatening the livelihoods of artisanal Koli fishers. In India the following story was written as a result of the press release: https://aakerunews.com/the-story-is-a-microcosm-of-the-conflicts-threats-and-opportunities-from-infrastructure-and-urban-growth-habitat-loss-demographic-transition-and-climate-change/.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Press Release: Local knowledge and ideas are key to action on climate disruption 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release titled 'Local knowledge and ideas are key to action on climate disruption'. This was circulated to wire services and media outlets in India,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Quotation in Eastern Eye interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lyla Mehta quoted in Eastern Eye article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.easterneye.biz/help-vulnerable-people-in-asia-deal-with-climate-change/
 
Description Quotation in National News Article: India and Pakistans Extreme Heatwaves a Warning Sign for the Future 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Professor Lyla Mehta quoted in national news article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/environment/2022/05/08/india-and-pakistans-extreme-heatwaves-a-w...
 
Description Quotation in the Wire Article: India Is Working Hard To Fight Climate Change - But Is It Working Right? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Quote in the Wire by Professor Lyla Mehta on India's approach to climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://science.thewire.in/environment/india-climate-change-ipcc-assessment-maladaptation/
 
Description Quotation is Wire article 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY researchers quoted in article by the Wire.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://science.thewire.in/environment/india-climate-change-ipcc-assessment-maladaptation/
 
Description Report National Roundtable Roundtable: Pastoral Futures, Youth Aspirations and Transformations, Kutch India 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Report National Roundtable Roundtable: Pastoral Futures, Youth Aspirations and Transformations, Kutch India.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.aidmi.org/sub-images/reports/Roundtable%20on%20TAPESTRY%20Naliya.pdf
 
Description Report National Roundtable on Pathways to Transformation: Coastal, Delta, and Desert Communities, Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Report National Roundtable on Pathways to Transformation: Coastal, Delta, and Desert Communities, Mumbai
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.aidmi.org/sub-images/reports/National%20Roundtable%20on%20TAPESTRY_Mumbai.pdf
 
Description Report on Roundtable on Transboundary Discussions in Kolkata 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Report on Roundtable on Transboundary Discussions in Kolkata.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.aidmi.org/sub-images/reports/Roundtable%20on%20TAPESTRY%20Kolkata.pdf
 
Description Report on Roundtable on Transboundary Opportunities and Collaborations for Sundarbans Delta Transformation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Report on Roundtable on Transboundary Opportunities and Collaborations for Sundarbans Delta Transformation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.aidmi.org/sub-images/reports/Roundtable%20on%20TAPESTRY%20Bangladesh.pdf
 
Description Revamping community space in Versova Koliwada 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Artcle discussing place-making project in Versova koliwada.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://origin.mid-day.com/amp/mumbai-guide/things-to-do/article/revamping-community-space-in-versov...
 
Description Round table report Transforming Coastal Communities: Present and Future, Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Round table report Transforming Coastal Communities: Present and Future, Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.aidmi.org/sub-images/reports/Roundtable%20on%20TAPESTRY%20Mumbai.pdf
 
Description Roundtable Transforming Coastal Communities: Present and Future, Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders and Koli leaders to discuss rapidly unfolding present and future. TThe objectives of the roundtable were: ? To understand the trends and uncertainties faced by the youth in pastoral. The objectives of the roundtable were: To review the nature, extent, and direction of transformation of coastal communities. To learn from the voices and insights of the coastal communities,such as Kolis in Versova Koliwada in Mumbai, India. To review ongoing efforts by and with these communities to shape their livelihood opportunities, access to sea, and impact of new coastal infrastructure and climate hazards. To explore the potential of collaboration between state agenciesand the local communities, NGOs, scientists, and researchers soas to find a way ahead for sustainable interventions. To discover what more can be done so that the benefits of ongoing development can be transformed in favor of the affected marginalised and vulnerable Koli communities across the coast.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Roundtable on Transboundary Discussions in Kolkata 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders to discuss rapidly unfolding opportunities and possible collaborations for learning and action, both. The objectives of the roundtable were: Learning of climate sensitive initiatives and feasibilities of their implementation. Community and civil society engagements such initiatives. Possibility of creating a formal civil society platform to discuss trans-boundary way forward across India and Bangladesh.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Roundtable on Transboundary Opportunities and Collaborations for Sundarbans Delta Transformation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders to discuss rapidly unfolding opportunities and possible collaborations. The objectives of the roundtable were: To understand multiple ways of understanding what is called ""transboundary"" in the context of the Sundarbans delta in India and Bangladesh. To spot and explore the opportunities for transboundary work of local communities, NGOs, scientists, and state agencies that are transformative and inclusive. To enlist, review, and plan collaborations ""from below that lead to transformative transboundary alliances between local actors for day-to-day uncertainty facing their lives. To understand, from many points of view, a wide range of local and community based opportunities in the context of just transformation. To discuss areas for further research and action to make transformation work for the affected communities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Roundtable: Pastoral Futures, Youth Aspirations and Transformations, Kutch India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact "This Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders and Koli leaders to discuss rapidly unfolding present and future. TThe objectives of the roundtable were: ? To understand the trends and uncertainties faced by the youth in pastoral
communities in India, with a focus on Kutch. To consolidate a wide range of work on pastoralists and explore possibilities of
leading to socially and environmentally just transformations. To find ways to mobilise NGOs, community youth leaders,
authorities, academics, and scientists to find transformative paths for the youth and other vulnerable groups.To scope further
the role of natural and social sciences to support each other in collaborating for transformative opportunities from below.
To start enlisting future action and research agenda for pastoral youth and coastal community"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Shilpi Srivastava quote in New Statesman: Doesn't Liz Truss know climate change isn't gender neutral? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Quote from Shilpi Srivastava a New Statesman in article reagrding the gendered dimensions of climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/climate/2022/03/doesnt-liz-truss-know-climate-change-isnt-g...
 
Description Social Life of Plastic Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Lalatendu Keshari Das on the issues of plastics in the lifeworld of Koli fishers in Mumbai. He also talked about positionality of fishers stranded between an ever expanding metropolitan city like Mumbai on the one side, and rising Arabian Sea on the other.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Talk at Emerging Challenges for Urban Sustainability in India Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by D. Parasarathy at the Emerging Challenges for Urban Sustainability in India workshop which was organised by the Centre for Urban Ecological Sustainability. The talk was titled 'Privatizing the commons, commoning disasters: Perilous urbanization in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region'. This took place in January 2019 at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Talk: 'The Politics of Climate Change, Uncertainty and Transformation in Marginal Environments' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk given by Professor Lyla Mehta titled 'The Politics of Climate Change, Uncertainty and Transformation in Marginal Environments' . The talk was given online as part of the Social Life of Climate Change Seminar Series at London School of Economics and Political Science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The 'forgotten' water ecosystems of Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The article was published after the outreach of the Net filter installation initiative was implemented in Versova creek. The article focused on the perceptions of the water bodies in the city of Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/environment/the-forgotten-water-ecosystems-of-mumbai-84732
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in
Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://theconversation.com/facing-the-dual-threat-of-climate-change-and-human-disturbance-mumbai-an...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on Foreign affairs website. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, post on Foreign Affairs website,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2022/10/20/mil-osi-global-facing-the-dual-threat-of-climate-change-and-...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on Free-mail website 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on Free-mail website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://free-mail.co.za/facing-the-dual-threat-of-climate-change-and-human-disturbance-mumbai-and-th...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on Yahoo news. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur. posted on Yahoo news.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://uk.news.yahoo.com/facing-dual-threat-climate-change-165255511.html
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the Mauritius Times website 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the Mauritius Times website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.mauritiustimes.com/mt/facing-the-dual-threat-of-climate-change-and-human-disturbance/
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the dailyhunt website 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the dailyhunt website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/scroll-epaper-scrol/the+koli+fishing+community+has+lessons...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the geogrpahy directions blog website 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the geogrpahy directions blog website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://blog.geographydirections.com/2022/10/22/facing-the-dual-threat-of-climate-change-and-human-d...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the Scroll website. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the Scroll website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://scroll.in/article/1035626/the-koli-fishing-community-has-lessons-on-climate-resilience-for-m...
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the qrius website 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the qrius website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://qrius.com/what-the-kolis-of-mumbai-can-teach-the-world-about-climate-change/
 
Description The Converstaion Article: Facing the dual threat of climate change, posted on the teacher idea exchange website. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Article on the the climate threat posed to coastal communities by D Parthasarathy, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, and Shibaji Bose, PhD Student in Community Voices, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, posted on the teacher idea exchange website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://teacherideaexchange.com/what-the-kolis-of-mumbai-can-teach-the-world-about-climate-change/
 
Description The Mangroves are not being affected by the grazing of Kharai camels 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Newspaper articles published in: 1) the Kutchmitra, a Gujarati language daily published from Bhuj, Kutch district, Gujarat, India.
2) Sandesh, a leading Gujarati Newspaper 3)Divya Bhaskar, one of the highest circulation Gujarati newspapers Translated title
The Mangroves are not being affected by the grazing of Kharai camels
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Training module IITB Transdisciplinary Training Collaboratory: Building Common Ground 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Development of training module and pedagogy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Transformations 2019 Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Shilpi Srivastava on the conceptual framework underlining the TAPESTRY project at the Transformations 2019 Conference held at the University of Santiago, Chile. She also talked about methodological approaches for co-production.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India: Climate and Development Seminar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Seminar held at the Institue of Development Studies (IDS) presenting key ideas from the project to IDS and University of Sussex students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unpacking Uncertainty from Above 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Lyla Mehta and Shilpi Srivastava looking at how uncertainty is conceptualised by modellers and experts and how these can miss out on local level perspectives and experiences. Lyla Mehta also spoke in the final session (fishbowl) about how uncertainty can be an opportunity for transformation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-uncertainty-practical-challenges-for-transformative-a...
 
Description Unpacking Uncertainty in Times of Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post focusing on how a more inclusive and holistic understanding of uncertainty can help in fostering more care-based, people-centric and socially just strategies for adaptation and societal transformation. This was written by Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Hans Nicolai Adam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/unpacking-uncertainty-in-times-of-climate-change/
 
Description Unpacking transformation in marginal landscapes in South Asia: 'lived experiences' and stories of change from 'below' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact POLLEN 2022 Visual Methods Panel
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Using Local Vernacular Media to Share Knoweldge and Engage Policy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Commentary titled 'Using Local Vernacular Media to Share Knowledge and Engage Policy' written by Shibaji Bose. This was published online on the Health Systems Global webpage. It examines the engagement of mainstream Indian media at the national and regional levels in relation to the Sundarbans Health Watch report.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.healthsystemsglobal.org/blog/355/Using-local-vernacular-media-to-share-knowledge-and-eng...
 
Description Versova Seafood Festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Bombay 61, our Mumbai based partners, organised a stall at the popular Versova seafood festival, held in Versova, Mumbai. A video of the project was screened and informal conversations and discussions took place with visitors on some of the possible initiatives that the Bombay group will work on with the local fishers. Visitors also provided written feedback on the different options and initatives presented.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Versova Seafood Festival Talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Nobuhito Ohte, Ranit Chatterjee and Lyla Mehta participated in Versova Seafood Festival. They presented the poster entitled "Mangrove Forest: Ecosystem Services, Conservation and Management" at the booth of Bombay 61, introducing the importances of ecosystem services of mangrove forests and its conservation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Video and Report publication - 'New Catch in Town' - Net filter installation pilot project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The video was created to create a wider outreach and better understanding of the community-led initiative of installing net filters to clean the creek systems. It was published along with a comprehensive technical report about the project. The report presented the studies relevant to creek ecosystems and development of the net filter module along with the community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tapestry-project.org/2022/08/08/catching-plastic-mumbais-koli-community-uses-fishing-nets-to...
 
Description Water Adaptation Community Webniar: Putting Water at the Center of Adaptation: An Urgent Need for a Strategy for Transformative Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The purpose of this webinar is to stimulate discussion and increase understanding of how to put water at the centre of adaptation and accelerate a system-wide coherence on water across multiple agendas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjDEhCYqnk&feature=youtu.be
 
Description Webinar Participation: '"Soil Conservation & Land Use Planning" - Geospatial Solutions?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation by Dr Nobuhito Ohte in the UGIT's International Webinar "Soil Conservation & Land Use Planning" - Geospatial Solutions?' in December 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Webinar Participation: "Resilient and Sustainable Development of Historic Precincts and Areas: Resilience to Disaster, Pandemic, Climate Change in Historic Areas And Precincts- Focus West Bengal" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation by Ranit Chatterjee, Upasona Ghosh, Debdatta Chakraborty and Nobuhito Ohte in the ICOMOS India organised webinar 'Resilient and Sustainable Development of Historic Precincts and Areas: Resilience to Disaster, Pandemic, Climate Change in Historic Areas And Precincts- Focus West Bengal'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Webinar on 'Strengthening Humanitarian Systems In India' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Attendance by TAPESTRY member Mihir Bhatt at a webinar on Strengthening Humanitarian Systems In India. Mihir suggested the need for the system to be oriented to transformative actions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Webinar: Addressing Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lyla Mehta invited as a panellist to the International Webinar 'Addressing Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change' organised by Miranda House, New Delhi on the 26 April 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Webinar: Climate risk and uncertainty in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Lyla Mehta invited as a panellist to a webinar organised by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Hindu Kush Himalaya under ICIMOD's Himalayan University Consortium's (HUC). The webinar wastargeted at an interdisciplinary audience including scientists, social scientists, policymakers, and activists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.huc-hkh.org/events/climate-risk-and-uncertainty-in-india
 
Description Webinar: Transformations in and Beyond COVID-19 in India and Bangladesh 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This webinar was organised and hosted by the TAPESTRY team. It explored the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for bottom-up transformations to sustainability in India and Bangladesh. It drew on responses in Kachchh, the Sundarbans delta (India and Bangladesh) and Mumbai, based on the research in the TAPESTRY project.

In particular the following questions were asked:

• What are the immediate challenges of Covid-19 for alliances working to ensure livelihoods for people in marginal environments?

• How is Covid-19 intersecting with other unpredictable changes and uncertainties, and how can alliances 'from below' develop more effective responses to them? What can researchers, local authorities and civil society do to enable these responses to flourish?

• What questions does the pandemic raise for the way we think about the relationships between humans and nature?

• What can be learned from local forms of mutual aid and solidarity in response to Covid-19, for long-term efforts towards sustainability?

• What has been the changing relationship with state agencies, and whether governments failed, been passive, or supported communities in dealing with Covid-19 related losses and uncertainties?

• What are the implications of the 'double disaster' of Covid-19 and Cyclone Amphan for the governance of disaster preparedness and response?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/webinar-transformations-in-and-beyond-covid-19-in-india-and-banglades...
 
Description Webpage 'TAPESTRY' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Creation of the TAPESTRY project webpage hosted by the STEPS Centre. The webpage outlines the project, including providing information on the background to the project and the partners involved in the consortium. Additionally, the page contains links to all the TAPESTRY blog posts and information on any TAPESTRY events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/project/tapestry/
 
Description Why Fishermen in Suburban Mumbai Find Their Catch Shrinking Steadily 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quote by Professor D.Parthasarathy concerning the affect of storms on fishing communities in Mumbai. The article titled 'Why Fishermen in Suburban Mumbai find their Catch Shrinking Steadily' was published online at Citizen Matters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://mumbai.citizenmatters.in/pollution-and-global-warming-lead-to-dwindling-catch-for-mumbais-fi...
 
Description Workshop on 'Climate Resilience' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TAPESTRY PI Professor D. Parthasarathy was a Co-Convener for this workshop on Climate Resilience, co-organized by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, Japan and India, and the Inter-disciplinary Program in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. Participants included persons from media, government, NGOS and civil society, students and academics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021