Guided Walks
Nature Walkthroughs|Travelling Plants
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Strollology with Suresh Jayaram
Step into the green heart of Bangalore with a guided botanical walk through Cubbon Park. Beneath its towering rain trees and sprawling bamboo groves, the park shelters a living archive of the city’s horticultural history. From colonial plantings to indigenous species, each tree here tells a story of migration, adaptation, and resilience.Led by Curator and Writer Suresh Jayaram, who will be sharing glimpses of his Upcoming book on Cubbon Park, this walk invites you to slow down, observe, and rediscover the extraordinary diversity hidden in plain sight. Learn to identify native and exotic trees, trace the park’s layered past.
Network Walk
Network Walk is a gentle exploration of Bengaluru’s hidden infrastructures, where telegraph buildings, internet cables, trees, fungi, and lichens appear as interconnected webs. Beginning at the Central Telegraph Office and moving into Cubbon Park, the walk invites participants to trace signals, measure hotspots, and notice the quiet work of mycelium. Guided by fungi culturist Biplab Mahato and curated by media artist from Germany Iz Paehr, the walk offers glimpses into histories and encounters with ecologies. Join in to touch networks that carry stories and to sing with lichens.Schedule:
12.10.2025 - 3 pm to 5 pm
19.10.2025 - 3 pm to 5 pm
Limited spaces, Register here.
Biplab Mahato is an interdisciplinary explorer of ecology who works with fungi — from cultivation to creating food, art, and immersive experiences — while documenting their ecological stories. As the founder of Shroomin’, he builds communities around learning from fungal networks and their connections to human systems. Based in Bengaluru, Biplab blends ecology, art, and digital culture to reveal hidden connections between fungi, trees, and communication infrastructures, encouraging people to sense the invisible threads that weave together urban and natural systems.
Iz Paehr works as an artist-designer touching access, criptastic hacking and trans*feminist world building. Their experiences as a disabled person inform their work and drive their desire for furthering Disability Justice through critical technological practice. Currently, they are designing haptic virtual interfaces. Paehr lives and works in Berlin. Iz can be found online via izpaehr.xyz
Iz Paehr was a bangaloREsident @ The Archives at NCBS in 2024.
Nature Walks at AF
The nature walk by The Naturalist School at Alliance Française de Bangalore in collaboration with Goethe Institute will reveal the fascinating web of life thriving in an urban setting. Within just 200 metres and a short period of time, participants will witness diverse trees, insects, and hidden interconnections—an unforgettable experience showcasing how wildlife from around the world adapts beautifully to city lifeThe Naturalist School (TNS) is a pioneering effort towards offering certifications and short/long term courses on Wildlife and Nature Interpretation. The ‘Centre Of Excellence’ a first of its kind in India has been created as a key human resource development initiative to cater to multiple stakeholders: locals whose livelihoods are dependent on ecotourism, visitors engaged in travel to protected areas (PA), employers who are facing a shortage of skilled staff, PA managers who are trying to spread awareness on conservation.
Schedule:
11.10.2025 - 2 pm to 3:30 pm led by Suchi Govindarajan
18.10.2025 - 9:30 am to 11 am led by Ulhas Anand
Limited spaces, Register here.
Suchi Govindarajan is a writer, poet and photographer. She’s the author of three picture-books for children. Her work has appeared in publications like The Bombay Literary Magazine and the Yearbook of Indian Poetry. After a long career as a technical writer, Suchi now enjoys leading nature walks.
Ulhas Anand is the co-founder of EcoEdu, an initiative that works to deliver high-quality environment education through activities and publications. EcoEdu has published a series of books on urban flora, including Avenue Trees and Garden Climbers. Ulhas is a resource person with The Naturalist School and has delivered sessions on Nature Inspired Design Thinking to budding Naturalists.