We realized that there is very little by way of text, for landscape design studies, as also for architecture in India. There is even less, by way of a body of knowledge with which to theorize.Then we have forgotten how to see. And when we do know how to see, we know very few ways to do so.
LEAF studies were born out of these concerns; and through many research projects we look at things that no one often cares to; how birds fly? Can we show sound graphically? Or smell? How does a cow in a city move differently from one in the village?
What really happens in the small cracks and pores of the ground on which we walk? Can we find a structure in natural landscape? The research is always primary; always things we can sit and observe - the ways of representing being greatly debated and experimented.
Seeing The City
(2009; Parin Shah)
Observations along the Sabarmati
(2009, Ritesh Kamdar)
Understanding the idea of Nature in the City
(2010; Ritu Rawat)
Observing the Ground in the City
(2010; Mrunmayee Pande)
Art & Landscape
(2010; Background Notes)
City Sounds
(2011; Kauseen Motiwala)
Birds in the City
(2011; Jobin Varughese)
Cow Day & Slum Ventures
(2011; Rebecca Hui)
Summer Smells
(2012; Swati Noble)
Open Spaces in Mumbai
(2012; Sushmita Paul)
A Million Gardens
(2014)
Beyond the Manifest
(2018; Shalini Prakash)
Intramurals Of Ark
(2018)
The Heat Story
(2019; Anahita Rajesh)
Life of a Sparrow
(2019; Rutuja Badve)
A Balloon Test
(2019; Samarth Vyas)
Landscape of Waste
(2019; Kaustabh Banarjee)
Forest for the Trees,Trees for the Forest
(2015)
The Gardens of Harmandir Sahib
(2018)
Thol: Process Document
(2020)
Transgressing Wilderness
Rushika Khanna (2020)
Outgrow
Dhara Mittal, Nishant Mittal, Parita Jani
Design in the Times of COVID - 19
(2020)