Our Living Knowledge bridging ancient and modern science
Our Approach
Daily Life, Living Infrastructure
Our team lives and works alongside local custodians, documenting traditional land stewardship. This includes meticulous mapping of ancient irrigation channels, herding paths, seasonal migration patterns, local biodiversity conservation techniques and observation of how communities negotiate with, and adapt to extreme climate changes and modern governance frameworks
Every observation contributes to an understanding of ecological custodianship in extreme environments. Our ethnographic work prioritises FPIC and place-based local protocols.
Pangling village, Mustang, Nepal. October, 2026
Our Expeditions
Our expeditions began in 2011 with immersive lived experiences with Indingeous and local communities in East and South Africa, and South Asia. Below is a look at some of our expeditions
Masaai Mara, Kenya & Tanzania
Expedition: A-golok of the Maasai, 2011
A-golok means changing directions in Maa. Our expedition in the Maasai Mara worked with local leaders as they negotiated with multilateral and national agencies to introduce new drought-resistant agriculture
Semonkong, Lesotho & Cederberg South Africa
Expedition: Following the transitions from San People to the Basotho, 2021-2022
We followed the migratory routes of the San People across South Africa and Lesotho. We observed and documented transitions of the Basotho people in Semonkong highlands of Lesotho.
Omu Valley, Ethiopia
Expedition: Livelihoods, rituals and adaptations of the Hamar People, 2022
Our expedition involves a series of lived-ethnography documentation efforts among different communities across the world's deepest Gorge, the Kali Gandaki Gorge. We are working with local communities and their 18,000-year-old traditions to document and preserve their Living Knowledge. Our particular emphasis is on observing adaptations and negotiations in the face of extreme weather conditions in a high-altitude arid desert environment and recent climate catastrophes in the region.
Sreemongol, Bangladesh
Expedition: Lives and adaptations of displaced Indigenous People in Southern Bangladesh, 2015-2022
We conducted a series of lived expeditions among many displaced Indigenous communities across the Hill Tracts and Coastal areas in the southern tip of Bangladesh. Including documenting the lives of Garo people who were forced into labour in colonial tea plantations in Sreemongol, and the Rohingya people escaping prosecutions in Myanmar.
In the remote Omu Valley of Ethiopia we immersed into the lives of the Hamar people known for their "Jumping bull" initiation. We observed these nomadic people's adaptations to the new economy.
Meghalaya, India
Expedition: Observing Khasis spiritual and human-nature kinship worldview, 2023
Mustang, Nepal
Expedition: Ancient Himalayan Bön Living Knowledge, 2026-2027
Our expedition spent 3 months in the remote Khasi Hills, including the very remote village of Kongthong where people still communicate using songs and hymns. We immersed into Khasis spiritual and human-nature kinship worldview, where locals communicate with trees and guide their roots to build bridges.
Knowledge in the trans-Himalayan valleys lives in daily land stewardship.
It is not stored in static archives, but actively maintained through adaptive ecological protocols developed over millennia in extreme environments.
Access our detailed field reports, data archives, and participatory research findings.