Narendra Dengle Editor

Savyasaachi has worked in the fields of political ecology, indigenous people, development, social movements, and conservation architecture. He has taught social anthropology to students of ‘conservation architecture, at the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi. At National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he has taught weeklong SLA courses on Indian Society and culture and has been sharing with textile students’ ways of doing field work and Craft Documentation. He has published 2016 The Gift of Guru ki Maseet-Celebrating the Exemplary on the Frontiers of Social Sciences in Mahuya Bandopadhyay and Ritambhara Hebbar eds Towards a New Sociology in India. New Delhi, Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd ; Hand-Crafted: Foundational Value, Creativity and Work in Threads of Change-Textile Cultures of North East India (Symposium Papers) IGNCA Delhi and NID Ahmedabad; Five Aspects of epistemological trust in Jauhar Vol 06 Issue 01 July-September 2016; 2015 Craft Architecture and History: Labour, Time and the Future in History of Architecture-Towards Writing from an Indigenous Perspective Proceedings of workshop September 18-20 2015. Bhopal, School of Planning and Architecture.

Narendra Dengle is an architect, author, artist, and educator based in Pune. Over the last five decades, his projects have been executed in India, and the Sultanate of Oman. He has lectured in India and universities in USA, Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, and Norway. He is a faculty at the Building Beauty Program, at Sorrento, Italy. Exhibitions of his works were held in India and Europe. He is concerned about the wholeness of life, connections with ancient wisdom, and the processes of its manifestation in art and architecture.