Day 6: responsibility of continued care and documentation of the farms, plans for next time, sharing contact details, feedback, plans/ideas
We talked about how each child will care about his plants, tried to gather some feedback about the process and discussed…
Day 5: containers (all kinds… bought from a flea market), sow seeds, audio blog activities, work on the “public fruit map” @ googlemaps
From a nearby flea market I managed to get some petis (wooden cartons used for transporting and storing fruits…
Day 4: prepared more soil, invite a gardener to visit, sow seeds in baskets + pots, post the group’s experience on the audio blog, talk about the “public fruit map (delhi).”
From the nearby Qutub nursery, I requested the head gardener, Ram…
Day 2: a simple discussion on nutrition, diet and vegetables. in simple flower-pots we sowed chilli, radish and spinach seeds.
Day 3: get baskets, setup baskets, get containers made, talk to neighborhood gardeners, put audio recordings on the Internet
Read more about the workshop…
Rashmi Sirkar, a second year design student at Srishti has been working on a small (20-page) illustrated handbook on urban farming for CitySpinning. A draft is now ready and is available for download using the link below.
The handbook gives an overview,…
The graphic has been designed by Avinash Deshmukh (2nd year Srishti student)
Note (feb 25 08): Will add a text description here soon. Maybe a kind of interpretation of the mindmap?
Earlier this month I presented a paper titled, “Frameworks for a Collective Reinterpretation of the Ambient Possibilities of Public Spaces” at the Sensory Urbanism conference organized by Dr.Raymond Lucas at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK).
Will post summaries of presentations…
