Sourabh Phadke

About Sourabh’s Research:

This practice-based research explores how earth-work engages with nonhuman collaborators—including materials, tools, landscapes, and critters—to propose a material and ethical framework for the Anthropocene grounded in care and shared authorship. Through hands-on collaboration with earthen practitioners, the creation of illustrated bilingual booklets, and the facilitation of immersive retreats, the research positions practice as a mode of experiential inquiry, synthesis, and reflection. By bringing contemporary material scholarship into dialogue with Indigenous ways of knowing, it advances an alternative politics of knowledge production—one rooted in embodied, multisensory, and collective forms of making and thinking.