Real-world laboratories

Transdisciplinary experimentations of fisheries in ponds and canals (India)

Transdisciplinary experiments on the inland fishery are taking place in Kumir Mari, India.

Transdisciplinary experimentations in ponds

Through concerted planning and actions, the project first trained experimentations around ponds. The research team made an inclusive effort to verify and inform the best practices and principles laid out in the locally contingent and coproduced outputs by systematic transdisciplinary experimentation in ponds at the NGO (PRSJSM) premise in Kumir Mari, involving local fishers including women.

The experimentation initiative has been complemented with ancillary activities (research outputs), facilitating and up-scaling skillsets and entrepreneurial abilities of local communities including women.

Through these initiatives, we critique the ‘same size fits all’ disaster management and modelling and assert that a ‘social resilience’ framework, accommodating inputs from local communities can unleash possibilities through which sustained solution strategies for dealing with climate risks and ‘dwelling’ in the delta can be forged and fostered.

Transdisciplinary experimentations in canals

During the second year of the project, the transdisciplinary team decided to upscale the successful pond experimentation and explore the possibilities of developing collective fishing in canal commons. therefore our team explored the canals available on the Kumir Mari Island.