Ecology, Community and Risk Storytelling

This program situates documentary inquiry within ecological and conservation landscapes. Beginning in Bengaluru with seminars on environmental communication, conflict-sensitive reporting, and safeguarding, participants build structured documentation protocols before entering field contexts.

In Mysore and the Bandipur landscape, participants engage with conservation narratives, rural livelihoods, and stakeholder tensions surrounding ecology, tourism, and development. Interviews and observational work are conducted under strict consent and confidentiality frameworks.

Daily debriefs examine narrative risk, power asymmetries, and representation ethics in environmentally sensitive contexts. The program concludes with structured editing studios and peer-review clinics to ensure contextual accuracy and harm minimization.