articles and papers
Bamboo and Cane Training Workshop at Dimapur, Nagaland,2006
We conducted a Bamboo and Cane Training Workshop at Dimapur, Nagaland, after the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati, approached us in view of our earlier work in the region. The workshop, organized under a Cluster Development Programme, received encouraging participation and media coverage.
Over the years, we had lost our copy of the report submitted to IIE. Strangely, the report returned to us through Dr. Bisweswar Haorangbam, a design faculty associated with NID Jorhat, who received it from Mr. Handique of IIE.
The report is shared here in its original form, as a document belonging to that particular period and context. Revisiting the workshop after nearly two decades, however, opens up the possibility of seeing it differently through the framework of Arupa – The Implicate Order. What appeared then as a training programme now begins to reveal deeper systemic patterns involving power structures in decision-making, strategies of development, tools, tacit knowledge, trust networks, entrepreneurship, material engagement, and embodied learning.
This report does not attempt such a reflective reading. It is intended to follow this archival document with a subsequent article tentatively titled:
Neusearch at System Level: Reflections on the Dimapur Bamboo and Cane Workshop, Nagaland (2006)