Traders of the Climate Data
Alternate Livelihood for fishery communities
The project presents a plausible future vision for the underprivileged female fishery communities of coastal India. It speculates the impact of climate change on their livelihoods and how it causes them to assert their agency; subverting traditional norms and hierarchically defined roles. Rather than being a passive receiver of change, women foresee an opportunity in the situation. They not only have expertise in fish trading, but also in their local ecosystem. They develop an initiative to collect this knowledge and become traders of ‘Climate action’ data, vending their generational understanding of dealing with the change. Collection of data packages from this world exhibits their interpretation of the data world interwoven with indigenous knowledge. It intends the plausibility of this data as a game changer in the dynamic arena of climate change and environmental science. The project interrogates the women’s participation in leadership, decision-making while climate policy making.