People Place Palimpsest
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A special research and design studio brings to forefront, much ignored but highly valuable discourse of learning lessons from Indian rural contexts [while studying 11 Indian villages located across different geographical locations] in the realm of the idea of nature conservation through diverse set of cultural values. Palimpsest "palin" + "psaio" ["again I scrape"] "A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain." The traditions, cultures and identity of the indigenous landscapes of India are wrapped in many layers through time, place and people. It speaks in many voices, and this polyphony articulates the reciprocity which culture has to its native landscape. An evocative metaphor often employed to capture the spirit of the tradition and this sense of identity is that of a palimpsest, an ancient parchment upon which generation after generation inscribe their messages layer upon layer, and yet no succeeding layer completely erases or hides what was previously written becoming the part of a whole. In this study, we attempted to understand our rural landscapes as palimpsests created by indigenous people, cultures and their traces on land.
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Journal of Landscape Architecture (LA journal) , India