Workshops
Creation and Reflection: Visualising Climate’s Quiet Crisis Sensitively
Bhumika Saraswati
This workshop facilitated by Bhumika Saraswati, invites participants to creatively document the subtle but urgent impacts of extreme heat, especially its invisible effects indoors and outdoors. Through visuals and text, we will explore how heat intersects with gender, caste, and identity in our everyday life. We will also reflect on the gendered nature of certain crises and how they exacerbate existing inequalities.
In Phase 1, we’ll explore the challenge of visually capturing heat, a crisis that lacks visible markers yet shapes lives deeply. Using examples from her work, Bhumika will discuss how to approach sensitive storytelling, whether capturing one’s own experiences or those of others.
In Phase 2, we’ll move to hands-on creative engagement. Participants will be prompted to represent their personal experiences of heat—whether through photography, drawing, video, or writing. This phase emphasises honest expression and encourages careful, thoughtful observation.
Finally, in Phase 3, we’ll share and reflect on the pieces created. This is an open space for participants to present their work and discuss the diverse ways we perceive and document heat. The workshop will conclude with a discussion on making invisible climate impacts visible, particularly within the contexts of gender and social identity.
Limited spots available. Register to secure your place!
Image Courtesy: Bhumika Saraswati
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Bhumika Saraswati
Bhumika Saraswati is a multiple award-winning Indian journalist, photographer and filmmaker whose work documents lives and landscapes often overlooked or erased. Raised in a Dalit household by her resilient single mother, Gita, her storytelling is both deeply personal and globally resonant. Her projects, such as Heat.southasia, examines the unequal nature of the climate crisis, and its impact on marginalised communities, especially rural women in South Asia. Published in The Associated Press, Outlook Magazine, SCMP Films, and others, Bhumika’s storytelling brings dignity and depth to lives of those whose histories are often overlooked.
Bhumika believes there is no climate justice without social justice.
