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Project PI – Dr. Chhavi Mathur

Lead Advisor – Dr. Sara Ahmed, Founder-Director, Living Water Museum

Other Advisors

1. Darab Nagarwalla, independent educator
2. Sanskriti Menon, Centre for Environment Education
3. Ashok Rupner, Science Activity Centre, IISER Pune
4. Prachi Pasalkar, Pune Knowledge Cluster
5. Bejoy Thomas, Centre for Water Research, IISER Pune
6. Shailaja Deshpande, Jeevitnadi-Living River Foundation
7. Poonam Batra, Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (India)
8. Amir Bazaz, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore
9. K. Subramaniam, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai

Content writers

1. Aakriti Parashar, BS-MS student, IISER Pune
2. Amit Tandon, expert-disaster management
3. Aparna Joshi, IISER Pune
4. Chhavi Mathur, Living Waters Museum/TESF India
5. Darab Nagarwalla, independent educator
6. Joy Merwin Monteiro, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune
7. Kalyani Thatte, PhD student, IISER Pune
8. Minket Lepcha, filmmaker
9. Radhika Mulay, IISER Pune
10. Rijyuta Kaabaadee, BS-MS student, IISER Pune
11. Sakshi Durge, BS-MS student, IISER Pune
12. Sanskriti Menon, Centre for Environment Education, Pune
13. Sara Ahmed, Living Waters Museum/IISER Pune
14. Sukrit Sen, Living Waters Museum

Content Editors

1. Chhavi Mathur, Living Waters Museum/TESF India
2. Darab Nagarwalla, independent educator
3. Sara Ahmed, Living Waters Museum/IISER Pune

Core group of educators

1. Anisa Shaikh, educator
2. Darab Nagarwalla, independent educator
3. Nidhi Jain, Vikhe Patil Memorial school, Pune
4. Shubhashree Madhavan, SNBP International school, Pune
5. Smita Mane, Jnana Prabodhini, Nigdi
6. Vaishali Kamat, Bal Shikshan Mandir English Medium School, Pune

Additional educators

1. Jyoti Shelke, Vikhe Patil Memorial school
2. Kunal Jaiswal, Centre for Environment Education, Pune
3. Nandita Kusurkar, Vikhe Patil Memorial school
4. Swati Kulkarni, Vikhe Patil Memorial school
5. Vikram Gupchup, Kalpavryksh academy

Workshop facilitators

1. Aakriti Parashar, BS-MS student, IISER Pune
2. Ankish Tripude, Science Activity Centre, IISER Pune
3. Avinash Dahakey, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune
4. Chhavi Mathur, Living Waters Museum/TESF India
5. Darab Nagarwalla, independent educator
6. Joy Merwin Monteiro, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune
7. Juliana D’Souza, St. Felix High School
8. Sanskriti Menon, Centre for Environment Education, Pune
9. Sara Ahmed, Living Waters Museum/IISER Pune
10. Sindoora P, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune
11. Smita Mane, Jnana Prabodhini
12. Vaishali Kamat, Bal Shikshan Mandir English Medium School, Pune
13. K.S. Venugopal, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune

Student interns

1. Aakriti Parashar – research, documentation, data and feedback collection and processing, content writing, workshop facilitation, workshop organisation
2. Bhageerath Swaraj – workshop photography/videography
3. Manav Sivaram – conceptualization, organisation and moderation of talk series-Unravelling Sustainability, workshop and exhibition organisation
4. Rifa Meddapil – social media and design, workshop organisation
5. Ritvee Talele – exhibition design and illustration
6. Yash Sunil Karampuri – (audio) feedback collection, workshop organisation
7. Sakshi Durge – scientific content writing, exhibition organisation

Administration and Website Development

• Chhavi Mathur, Living Waters Museum/TESF India

Acknowledgement

• Hearth Education, University of Cambridge – the template for the teaching plans are adapted from Pani, Pahar – The Water Curriculum
• Contributors of the exhibition on Pune’s waters – Punyache Paani
• Durba Biswas (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore) and Bejoy Thomas for suggestions on the Water Privilege game.

Special thanks to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Department of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune for their support.