Áranya Design is a young women-led rural design, research and advocacy studio based in Western India, working at the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture, art and ecology. They are deeply invested in place, and research traditional socio-hydrological resilience systems, indigenous wild food and foraging networks, and indigenous ecological knowledge. They share this knowledge through educational, landscape architecture and public art projects.
Their knowledge into use project is an interactive educational zine designed specifically to create engagement with the lake ecosystems. The Zine will document, identify, and classify wild edible and medicinal herbs, and include harvesting methods and recipes from data and information collected from the indigenous community. It will contain pages for user observations, like calendars on which to mark sprouts / blooms / seeds / populations / locations of annual wild species. Additionally, the zine will include simple experiments to note factors like pollution and organic content and pockets to collect seeds for rewilding. It will also contain activities for children to explore the lake ecosystems.