Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) is a global non-profit organisation which generates interdisciplinary knowledge to inform policy and practice towards conservation and sustainability.
For over two decades, ATREE has worked on social-environmental issues from local to global policy levels. ATREE envisions a society committed to environmental conservation and sustainable and socially just development.
Their mission is to generate rigorous interdisciplinary knowledge for achieving environmental conservation and sustainable development, to enable the use of this knowledge by policy makers and society, and to train the next generation of environmental leaders. They work across issues like biodiversity and conservation, climate change mitigation and development, land and water resources, forests and governance and ecosystem services and human well-being.
As part of the Citizen Science Project, I was approached to create a signboard for Kasavanahalli Lake in Bangalore, Karnataka. This board focused on communicating statistics and data about the lake, underground water connectivity to other lakes in Bangalore, details of the catchment are and general information about the lake in both Kannada and English.
CLIENT
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment
FUNDED BY
CSR Grant through Oracle
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Biome Environmental Trust
• White-throated Kingfisher • Grey-headed Swamphen • Spot-billed Duck • Grey Heron •
The components of the signboard included:
1. Top view of Kasavanahalli Lake Map
2. Key/Legend
3. Lake Series and Catchment Area Map
4. Data and statistics about the Lake
5. Illustrations of 4 birds found at the Lake
Process:
1. All Lake Maps were hand-painted and digitally scanned to scale.
2. All icons of the key/legend were digitally created as vectors.
3. All text was digitally inserted in Kannada and English.
4. The layout of the board was decided based on information-hierarchy.
5. The birds were hand-painted and digitally scanned. They were placed in relative proportion to each other on the board.
(L) Kasavanahalli Lake Map
watercolour, colour-pencil and gouache on paper
A4
(R) Kasavanahalli Lake Series Map
watercolour, colour-pencil and gouache on paper
A4
The final board was 4 ft by 3 ft in size, printed on vinyl sticker and pasted on an ACP sheet.
The signboard was then mounted on site.
