Advancing the Heritage Conservation Discourse in India, one step at a time.

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CHC’s EMKP 2025 project ‘From Earth to Inhabited Space: Life Cycle of Mud Plastering in the Tribal Agricultural Landscape of Jharkhand’ has begun! Sharing some photos from Fieldwork Phase-1. Community consent and ethical representation of indigenous voices forms project's core.
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8: Pushpa Murmu and Jayashree Bardhan discussing abouts soil types with a practitioner. Photographer: Harshada Warrier
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Project funded and supported by: EMKP, British Museum @EMKP_BM and Arcadia Host organisation: CHC, CRDF Partner organisation: Tata Steel Foundation Team: Gauri Bharat, Jayashree Bardhan, AnkitaToppo, Pushpa Murmu, Babulal Goipai, Harshada Warrier, Aman Murmu, Srivishal
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Open Positions at Centre for Heritage Conservation (CHC) Internships , Fellow Architect and Research assist post are open. To Apply Send your Resume and Portfolio on : chc@cept.ac.in We are looking forward to receive your applications
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We have released Bhuj’s Watch Day Video screened at the special public event at Khengarji Park near Hamirsar Lake on 10th October 2025. The event was organised by World Monuments Fund India (WMFI), CHC-CRDF, Bhuj-based Homes in the City (HIC), and Bhuj Nagarpalika.
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Watch Full Video Here : youtu.be/GUGZWNzPhlI?si=DzYd… @CeptResearch @WorldMonuments @HIC_Bhuj Arid Communities and Technologies Jigna Desai Jayashree Bardhan Harshada Warrier Association for Appropriate Built Habitat and Technologies
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Center for Heritage Conservation, CRDF retweeted
The registrations are now open for the conference Reframing Vernacular Architecture for a Decolonised World, jointly hosted by Oxford Brookes University (UK) and CEPT University (India).   Register here: crdf.org.in/event/reframing-… Email: reframingvernaculararchitecture@cept.ac.in
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Sharing some snippets from the ‘Endangered Material Knowledge Programme’ (EMKP) training week at British Museum in September 2025. The training was for the new grantees to prepare them for material culture documentation and post-fieldwork components of their projects.
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Photographs: 1-Group photograph of the 2025 trainees. Photo Credit: Emily Tarry 2-Orientation by Lissant Bolton. Photo Credit: Paula Granados 3-Session by Paula Granados. Photo Credit: Jayashree Bardhan #EMKP #britishmuseum #endangeredmaterialknowledgeprogramme #culturalheritage
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Photographs: 4-One of the practical sessions on audio-visual documentation. Photo Credit: Paula Granados 5 & 6-At the ethnographic drawing workshop. Drawings: Jayashree Bardhan; Photo Credit: Paula Granados
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We are pleased to share some glimpses from the Watch Day at Bhuj!
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We thank all participants at the event and we look forward to collective positive actions to rejuvenate this ingenious historic water system of Bhuj!
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