The nineteenth century saw the emergence of the ‘Company School of Paintings’. The term refers to a body of artworks produced during the days of the Raj, capturing the ‘strange and exotic’ flora and fauna encountered by British officials in India. Post-independence, the tasks and roles of documentarians moved on to scientists, biologists, zoologists and…
Studies indicate that Mumbai has lost about 40% of its urban green cover in the last 30 years. Another article calls it out for being one of the cities with the least green cover (1.8 square metres per capita of green space) in the world while both Government of India guidelines and the World Health…
Harita – The Green Footprint Fellowship is a project spearheaded by Project Mumbai in collaboration with the Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic with the support of MCGM. The objective for the fellowship is to build capacity and skills among citizens to build a green community of youth caretakers. To engage the young Mumbaikar and create green ambassadors…
Harita – The Green Footprint Fellowship is a project spearheaded by Project Mumbai in collaboration with the Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic with the support of MCGM. The objective for the fellowship is to build capacity and skills among citizens to build a green community of youth caretakers. To engage the young Mumbaikar and create green ambassadors…
The Bhandup Pumping Station (BPS) is one of Mumbai’s main sewage treatment plants. To think of such a place as a biodiversity hotspot can be a bit mind boggling. But when you talk to conservationists, photographers and those most patient of nature lovers – the bird watchers – they’ll all confirm that Bhandup is indeed…
Towards the end of February, MMM partnered with No Footprints (who organise heritage walks in our city) to innovate a one-of-a-kind curated walk experience! The walk combined storytelling around Mumbai’s rich cultural heritage to invite participants on a journey to imagine a Mumbai 2.0 – a new vision that stands for a resilient city in…
On a lazy Sunday morning in November, we are out watching birds, our fellow residents on the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) campus. We lock our eyes on a few Yellow-footed Green-Pigeons feeding on a ficus tree next to the Staff Hostel. The fruits, bright red, are dotted all over the tree. The green-pigeons…
With the ever-increasing destruction of wetlands in Navi Mumbai, we ask the residents to put on their running shoes on every World Wetlands Day to create awareness about wetlands, mangroves, and the visiting flamingos. Mumbai has lost a lot of its mangroves due to reclamation, encroachment, and garbage dumping, among other causes. The International Union…
On September 4th, Waatavaran invited three visionary architects and urban planners of Mumbai – Rahul Kadri of IMK Architects, Pranav Naik of Studio Pomegranate, and Shilpa Chandawarkar, a professor at the Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture – to initiate a dialogue on Mumbai’s Green Recovery. With them, we invited young architecture and planning students to share…
On September 4th, Waatavaran invited three visionary architects and urban planners of Mumbai – Rahul Kadri of IMK Architects, Pranav Naik of Studio Pomegranate, and Shilpa Chandawarkar, a professor at the Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture – to initiate a dialogue on Mumbai’s Green Recovery. With them, we invited young architecture and planning students to share…