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 November 2022 is ‘The Island Of Missing Trees’ by Elif Shafak. Through this moving, beautifully written and delicately constructed novel, we explore love, division, transcendence, history and eco-consciousness. Join RC here.
Articles
In ‘A Rendezvous With Birds’, Arpita Joshi writes why it’s important to protect and help birds thrive within cities as she speaks with Deepa Mohan an urban nature guide and describes the joys of city birding. In Befriending Trees, Srinidhi Raghavan and Arpita Joshi write about the nature of green cover in Hyderabad and report on the conversation with Sadhana Ramchander and Kobita Dass Kolli, the curators of the Hyderabad Tree Enthusiasts group.
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.