The City as Museum

Between the dialectic of nature and human intervention, we often discover ourselves being stuck between extremes. To see human intervention as either completely good or bad is a reductionist view which the author challenges through her work. She accepts that concepts like climate change are slow processes, invisible in short time spans, hence difficult to grasp by humans. Her work strives to bring observation of change through positive reinforcement of small human actions which can have a beneficial ecological impact. Using this method to encourage seeing as a tool to believing, the author has developed a relatability model which has proved effective in her work, so far. In this article, she presents the model in the context of a pilot project conducted in Guwahati, Assam. The project documents a few endangered and common animal species in the city, hoping to highlight the coexistence of these as a form of natural heritage

Archaeology · Biodiversity · Biology · Cultural heritage · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Epistemology · Geography · GRASP · Reductionism · Sociology · Engineering · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology