Rutuja Mukesh Parakh

LA4015-2

Theatre of Survival

Tropical dry deciduous forest, Southern extension of Aravalli's, Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary. The study aims at imagining the forests as Theatre: a stage for fauna in terms of its favorable and unfavorable conditions for survival. The forest is looked at through the lens of diverse fauna via aspects of prospect and refuge theory. And also through spatial characteristics and conditions of various typologies. The journey takes one down the forest through the different conditions and pause points are the habitats: spaces from where species can see without being seen, the highest prospect and refuge.

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Drawing the Landscape | Dry Deciduous scrub and thorny forest (Thol wetlands) | Thol sketches

Reading and Recording the forest | Tropical Dry Deciduous forest, Southern extension of Aravallis (Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary | Forest sketches

Co-relating Systems | Tropical Dry Deciduous forest, Southern extension of Aravallis (Jaisamand wildlife sanctuary | Attributes of morphological units

Decoding the Forest | Introduction -Identifying and Developing the lens

Decoding the Forest | Studying Prospect and Refuge through various forest typologies of Jaisamand

Decoding the Forest | Studying Prospect and Refuge through various forest typologies of Jaisamand

Decoding the Forest | Studying Prospect and Refuge through various forest typologies of Jaisamand

Decoding the Forest | Mapping of Prospect and Refuge spaces

Re-presenting the forest | Pause points - Habitats: High Prospect and Refuge

Re-presenting the forest | Pause points - Habitats: High Prospect and Refuge