Community Centered

About PLASMA (Previously PAPAD) and the Channapatna Health Library Documentation for PAPAD: https://open.janastu.org/projects/papad PLASMA is developed by Janastu used in the Channapatna Health Library (CHL). CHL is a joint venture between Design Beku, Janastu and MAYA. It is a digital repository of local health experiences and traditional knowledge about wellbeing practices in India. Collectively built by an informal collective of women community Health Navigators (HNs) on a local decentralized community network....

Documenting urbanization and land use in Gantiganahalli through participatory mapping and GIS Analysis Pixelation of village level data The project looks at Gantiganahalli as an example village to understand the transition of urbanization and land use in peri urban areas of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Available sources to data often under-represent or misrepresent peri urban areas. It was observed that popular open source data platforms like Openstreetmaps had very little to no data available on Gantiganahalli....

Geo tagging and visualizing sacred groves of Kodagu. View project at: https://kodagostudio.github.io/Kodago/daivanakshe/experiment.html Introduction Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world. This project attempts to document sacred groves in different villages of Kodagu and visualize the amount of area conserved in each village as a result of it. The concept of Devarakadu or the Sacred Grove is a very popular tradition in Kodagu....