Our network has people from various backgrounds such as homemakers, village elders, artists, craftsperson, journalists, writers, educationists, academics, activists, community leaders, government officials, entrepreneurs, learners, students and most of them who are from Bidar, Gulbarga, Channapatna, Kundapura and Chennai. Some of us share the responsibility to maintain and support our network. We are happy to present the people who are working continuously to foster and grow our network.
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I’m an art-based practitioner. I like working with people from different places to understand the place better and learn how people, places, and cultures offer varied lived experiences. My first engagement with LLN was in 2019. Since then, I have engaged with LLN as a learner for various engagements.
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I am a private collector from Bidar. I started collecting in the 1960s and spent an entire lifetime for the practice of collecting artefacts. My wish is to have a museum with the collection so that people can appreciate and learn from these rare and unique artefacts same as I
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A transdisciplinary researcher, keen to learn and work with people and communities, to mindfully co-create places and spaces that nurture care, well-being, empathy, and respect. My first engagement with LLN was as a learner in 2019. Currently, I’m an Institutional Fellow at Living Labs Network. Restoration and Conservation of
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I'm an architect, architectural historian, and interdisciplinary researcher. I am currently associated with CEPT University as a Teaching Associate. My engagement with LLNaF began in 2022 as a learner with my masters thesis. I am interested in the study of the built environment and how its architecture offers
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Hello! The best way to describe me would be as a curious being and an enthusiastic learner, looking for opportunities to participate, in transdisciplinary and collaborative platforms. I am also a creative and spiritual being and with the values, I hold most dear, I try to create beauty in all
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I engage with LLNaF through small makings, small conversations, and small observations. I write, design, test, illustrate, and study in different forms which have evolved through the years. Creativity and Generosity attract my attention for work and interests. I have been engaging with LLN since 2019 as a Network Coordinator,
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I am a design researcher, educator, and facilitator broadly working at the intersections of human-computer interaction (HCI) design, participatory design, science and technology studies (STS) and community-based care. My recent and ongoing work explores community owned network as an alternative infrastructure for localized, distributed and participatory design for community care
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I am a researcher who is invested in thinking about, designing, and realising alternative imaginations of the digital, in ways that allow people to have agency over the technologies that they use. I am also passionate about the politics and the ethics of archiving, and conceiving of methodologies that make
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I study internet memes and online behavior in India, to understand making behaviors and their relationship between making and sharing platforms, in the context of satire and dissent. I use illustration, digital ethnography and design processes as a way to do and make research accessible. I facilitate studios at Srishti
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My name is Sakshi Kanchan, I have a degree in architecture and due to my inclination toward history, I have pursued heritage design planning and management at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology. I got to know about Bidar from Shreyas who facilitated one of the modules in
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I am a Social Science Researcher with extensive experience in work with local, grassroots and rural communities. I was part of the household survey 2019 and field research with farming communities in rural Tamil Nadu when working with Foundation for the Agrarian Studies, Bengaluru. I have worked as a Research
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Struggling everyday to strike the right balance between the world of Academia, Activism and Journalism. I feel happy when I get to undertake translations of some important works from English to Kannada and vice-versa. I discovered my love for Bidar when I first landed here for my PhD fieldwork very