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Delta Lives \ বজীবন

Sundarbans, India + Bangladesh \ সুন্দরবন, ভারত এবং  বাংলাদেশ

2022

Clients / Investors: Delta Lives, Goethe Institut, BeFantastic Bengaluru, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe

Collaborators/ Team: Barnamala Roy, Shailika Reeves, Jones John, Shreyas Iyer

Location: Sundarbans - Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
Type: Virtual Biosphere / Non-Linear Storyboarding / UI/UX /

Creative Commons, Speculative Cartography

Tags: data, craft, innovation, indigenous, forest, wetland, alternate, media, culture, ruralism, public arena

How does life unfold in the Sundarbans Delta region?

When the waters from the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna meander into the Bay of Bengal, they inundate the delta with fertile alluvial soil critical to the rich floral biodiversity which houses the Royal Bengal Tiger, several species of migratory birds and a whole tapestry of other socio-ecological relations.​

Designed as an interactive non-game around the stories of people, flora and fauna in the Sundarbans, this project intends to generate talk about such coastal ecosystems already rendered vulnerable due to climate change, without being alarmist.

Landscapes like these embody the simplicity of rural life - the colloquial practices and socio-cultural minutiae which populate a landscape that doubles up as a pulsating boundary, very much alive and moving - that between built and nature, humanity and brutal wilderness, river and sea.  On the fringes of wilderness, a centuries old mythic tale of evolutionary tensions and co-habitation plays out daily - between its people and its tigers.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mode 1: Story Zone

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Mode 2: Free Play

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Open House

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