Podcast | Green Guide for India (Part 1)
Delve deeper into the insights gathered in the Green Guide for India with this podcast episode featuring three local arts and culture professionals, whose experiences and reflections highlight the ways in which arts and cultural organisations across the country are addressing its' environmental challenges through their practices.
In this episode, you will hear from:
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Dr Madhura Dutta: Development sector professional working in the area of culture and development, and the main researcher of Contact Base, the organisation who helped create the Green Guide for India.
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Raki Nikahetiya: Director and co-founder of the sā Ladakh Biennale, the world’s highest-altitude regenerative art biennale, focusing on site-specific installations and initiatives at the intersection of climate, culture, and community.
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Manjiri Dube: Associate Director at Khoj International Artists’ Association, a not-for-profit contemporary arts organisation based in Delhi, whose work bridges emerging, experimental and transdisciplinary creative practices and pedagogies.
Tune in to learn about the major trends in art and climate action shaping India today, how innovative models from organisations like sā and Khoj have evolved to continue meeting environmental needs, the ways in which collaboration drive sustainability initiatives and more!
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Episode show notes:
- Creative Responses to Sustainability | Green Guide for India
- Episode Transcript: Podcast | Green Guide for India (Part 1)
Since 2015, ASEF has been publishing the series Creative Responses to Sustainability through its arts & culture portal, culture360.ASEF.org. This series of country-specific guides looks at arts organisations that address issues of sustainability in their artistic practice in several countries of Asia and Europe. The previous guides focused on Singapore (2015), Korea (2016), Indonesia (2017), Australia (2018), Portugal (2019), Spain (2019), United Kingdom (2021), India (2025), Philippines (2025), New Zealand (2026), with the spin-off in the series on the city of Berlin (2017).