Is it possible to create Indian cities that put our holistic well-being at the heart of their imagination?
Join The Curio-city Collective as we begin to explore and re-connect the web of people, communities and eco-systems in cities!
Reading Circle
The Curio-city Collective’s Reading Circle explores readings on well-being and transformative change. Our book for February 2021: Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. This book makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Join RC here.
Articles
In the essay, The Hard Work Of Sharing The Housework, Dwithiya Raghavan writes about how the lockdown has made visible to a large extent the labour that it takes to keep a home running and the disproportionate burden that falls on women.
Community
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Why Well-being?
A well-being framework is increasingly being recognised as the new way of mapping and understanding long-term holistic and collective well-being of human societies. It shifts out of the narrow confines of economic growth and expansively lays out how improvements in multiple variables from various spheres such as the economic, social, environmental, democratic, civic and personal, independently and collectively interact to make a happier and healthier society. Read more.
Well-Being stats
Twenty-one
of the world’s 30 cities with the worst air pollution are in India
Only a quarter
of the total 1.43 lakh MT of garbage generated in Indian cities, undergoes processing every day
The 7th worst-hit country
in 2019 as per the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, was India
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About Us
The Curio-city Collective (TCC) is a learning ecosystem that hopes to build a path to present and future holistic well-being in cities by re-connecting people, communities and ecosystems through practices of reflection, education and action.