SHICOL

Some of the people at Shikha Eco-Learning-Village and Shicol have recently become interested in agroforestry, where agriculture is combined with planting trees. We are trying to get to know different approaches like Fruit Forests (with several layers of lower and taller types of produce-yielding plants and trees) and Analogue Forests (an approach focused on biodiversity originating from Sri Lanka). The team led by Sibaji Panda has selected a site to start its first experiment in […]

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Work on multi-literacies skills with deaf people, led by the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies in the UK, continues with a newly funded sub-project on South-South Collaboration.  We are working with partners in Uganda, India, and Nepal to create a range of materials, including curricula, teachers’ handbook materials, teaching/learning materials, and best practice examples. The purpose of these materials is to underpin newly-arising profiles for deaf professionals in teaching roles. By creating […]

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Visiting the “Indo-German Dialogue on Green Urban Practices” in Pune was a welcome occasion for meeting like-minded people and being creative. As part of the public exhibition on the final day of this workshop, Prof. Ulrike Zeshan hosted a session featuring the first prototype of the “Ecosystems Game”. This game initially prompts the players to explore what they know about different types of ecosystems, such as land-based or water-based, natural or man-made. As the game […]

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Our work has recently been covered  by several TV channels and newspapers, mostly in Odiya language. In addition to the TV programmes being broadcast, there have been over half a million views so far on the various websites where the video clips were posted. This has generated a lot of interest, especially with respect to the eco-learning-village campus, and our site has been alive with many groups of visitors dropping in and wanting to see […]

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Jayesh Ganesh, architect and friend of the AlterNEXT family from Bangalore, visited in the last week of November to conduct a building workshop on sustainable building materials and construction techniques. This was the second workshop, and we took the first steps towards implementing the Campus Masterplan that was developed by friends and fellow architects Jayesh Ganesh and Uday Goswami through a participative approach involving the local community. This time we did hands-on work on building […]

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