The Water Seekers’ Fellowship 2021
Submit your application by August 29, 2021 – Midnight IST
The Living Waters Museum and the Social and Political Research Foundation invite young researchers interested in exploring urban waterscapes in India to apply for six short-term visual research-cum-policy-analysis fellowships.
India’s urban water landscape is as dynamic as the cultures and geographies that constitute what the country calls “urban”. Over the last few decades, as economic prosperity and new opportunities have grown across India, urbanisation and its associated impacts have gone from being mostly concentrated in premier metro cities, to now taking their own colour and shape across peri-urban areas, small towns and large village clusters. This dynamism is especially evident in the way water is accessed, supplied, consumed, disposed, and treated across cities.
By 2050, half of our population will be living in urban and peri-urban areas. This will put immense pressure on available water resources across our urban space, much of which has limited infrastructure for water management.
The Water Seekers Fellowship 2021 seeks to understand the diversity of this challenge and address it through visual narratives, case studies and policy research.
