Cultural Map
A fun and creative aesthetic that highlights the waterscapes of the city.
Know your Water
To inform, to engage and to develop a more nuanced and richer understanding of Chennai’s waterscapes.
Spatial understanding
GIS layers allow users to interact with different layers such as waterbodies and urbanisation and help understand different sets of information.
Water Data
Stories from each of the sites to provide not just a richer understanding of different stakeholders and forces at play but how they constitute different types of uses (instrumental, symbolic, sentimental, territorial, etc.).
Collaborative Ideation
This project has tried to leverage learnings and methods used in other ongoing projects of IGCS such as the ‘Pericene’ and coastal adaptation projects.
Outreach
Intended to be a fun, creative map that seeks to engage, inform and challenge the user with new stories and perspectives from the ground.
Research
To explore different kinds of interactivity by creating an album of images and recordings from three distinct water ecosystems (we call them ‘watersites’) and demonstrate the complex interactions and contestations between different entities.
Let's Go Outside
Adyar Estuary / Photoresearch
NAMMANEER
Bringing together tools from both the ‘scientific’, objective side and the qualitative, subjective side which are intended to complement each other to inform, to engage and to develop a more nuanced and richer understanding of Chennai’s waterscapes.
OUR BLOG
Read through some of the blogs that narattes the stories around water and Waterscapes of Chennai.
Where is my Water
As part of the project work in Sriperumbudur peri-urban interface, we conducted a few pilot surveys on basic amenities in Irungattukottai village in Sriperumbudur Taluk.
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COLLABORATION
Namma-neer would not have been possible without the support of
