What are Climate Recipes?
They are concise, intimate, everyday instructions from architects, journalists, scientists, activists, artists, and farmers that suggest different ways of reorienting our vision for a flourishing planet. They are entry points for an adaptable life suggesting diverse ways of farming, foresting, sharing, listening, living and loving.

How do we gather them and present them?
We meet with different people dedicated in their own areas of interest and have conversations about their work. These conversations are synthesized into short recipes and presented through text, illustrative drawings, exhibitions, and public programs.

What topics and areas have we covered so far?
We have interacted with twenty-five experts in Goa whose work encompasses foraging, sustainable architecture, immunology, urban planning, and food histories among others. Our ongoing Andhra Pradesh & Telangana edition brings together experts on natural farming - food systems, water conservation, and biodiversity restoration.

Which editions are upcoming?
We are currently in the process of research for the Bengaluru edition that focuses on neighborhood actions and sustainable cities. Our research in Bhitarkanika National Park is unpacking ways to address the area’s ecological, and economic realities. In addition, we are working on an international artist’s edition of Climate Recipes where artists present speculative proposals about the future of our collective ecosystem.

About
Twenty-five experts from Goa in various fields – environmentalists, foragers, academics, urban planners, eco-architects, chefs, farmers, poets and others offer life recipes from their lived experiences of the environment. They collectively call to realign with the ‘flow of our existing planetary system and find sites of refuge’ in the wake of climate adversity.

Contributors
Edible Archives, Rajeev Kumar Chaturvedi, Salil Chaturvedi, Anita Dudhane, Tallulah D’Silva, Vikram Doctor, Fatima Gracias, Kalpit Gaonkar, Alok Hisarwala, Rajendra Kerkar, Nirmal Kulkarni, Assavri Kulkarni, Maryanne Lobo, Nilima Kamat Menezes, Damodar Mauzo, Enit Maria, Sushant Naik, Parag Rangnekar, Arminio Ribeiro, Paresh Shetgaonkar, Sachin Shetye, Divya Singhal, Miriam Koshy-Sukhija, Mamata Verlekar, Musharraf Hebballi & Praveen Yarramilli.

Climate Recipes premiered as part of this.generation exhibition at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts (2023).

About
Presented by Dhi Contemporary (Hyderabad), the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh edition of the Climate Recipes project focuses on conversations around natural farming and agroecological practices, restoration of biodiversity, and community well-being. The climate recipes in this edition are gathered from conversations with experts in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and are represented within the gallery space as drawings and spatial installations.

Contributors
Prudhviraj Rupavath, Pranay Juvvadi, Kavitha Kuruganti, Bruno Dorin, Sikhamani, Yeshwant Ramamurthy, Harsha Durugadda, Teja Shilpa, Madhu Reddy, Chirag Dhara, Kalpana Ramesh, Susie Tharu, Rahul M, Ramanjaneyulu GV, Sreeharsha Thanneru, Pouldas Nagendra Satish, Vijay Kumar Thallam

Namma Ward, Namma Dhwani
In Bengaluru, Climate Recipes takes on the approach of listening to neighbourhoods as a way of understanding the city’s ecosystem at a micro level. The project aims to expand and spatialize the scope of what would living sustainably mean to the rapidly transforming urban ecosystem like Bengaluru.

The Bhitarkanika ecosystem today is caught between the wellbeing of the National park’s wildlife and the people who live on its land. There are ecological and economic challenges the national park area faces today that need to be surfaced and addressed. This edition focuses on the potential activation of the local economy and a balanced relationship between humans and wildlife. We will work with the Odisha Government and other organizations in the state in envisioning it.