Winter School in Oral History 2015 held by the Centre for Public History at the Sristhi School of Art, Design and Technology, organized many public lectures across the city.  As the graphic designer of the Centre for Public History,  I graphically record these public events.

The panel was titled 'Community, Memory and Landscapes'. The speakers were Anne Valk from Brown University, USA, Heather Goodall from the University of Technology, Sydney and Nitin D. Rai from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment.

Anne talked about her oral history project centred around a small pond in Providence, Rhode Island called Mashapaug pond. She talked about the different ways people have related to this water body over generations. What used to be a beloved pond, home to the memories of all the citizens is today a site of such massive pollution that nobody even knows it exists. Such has been the adverse effect of indiscriminate industrialization.

Many of Heather's projects have been situated along rivers. In her talk, she highlighted such themes and how immigrants and aboriginal residents interact with specific spaces. She talked about how immigrants often use knowledge they bring from their older homes the help them understand and interact with new spaces in a new land. Understanding that can help those responsible for public spaces better cater to them. This was all in context with a park based along the Murry river.

Nitin Rai has long worked in Gudulur to help the indigenous people like the Soligas, assert their rights to the forest. He is both a resercher and activist and talked about themes like oral history, subjective cartography, understanding what 'territory' means and labour.