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Climate-Adaptive Design: Building up Ladakh's Ice Stupas

Climate-Adaptive Design: Building up Ladakh's Ice Stupas <p>abstract:</p><p>This article chronicles the development of a climate-adaptive water management project, called the ice stupa, in Ladakh, a region in northern India. The ice stupa intertwines ambitious goals for environmental management and economic development with social, cultural, and religious values and practices. Early design prototypes appeared to offer a host of social, economic, and environmental benefits to the community of Phyang. Additional contextual considerations and unexpected challenges surfaced later, providing a more nuanced evaluation of the ice stupa as a design strategy. Today, ice stupa adherents aspire to harness a constellation of integrative co-benefits in project prototypes and to demonstrate the broader value of the design to other communities. Beyond simply addressing a discrete environmental adaptation in Ladakh, the ice stupa project highlights the tensions and possibilities in novel design partnerships and the challenge of producing integrated climate adaptive projects.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

Climate-Adaptive Design: Building up Ladakh&apos;s Ice Stupas

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<p>abstract:</p><p>This article chronicles the development of a climate-adaptive water management project, called the ice stupa, in Ladakh, a region in northern India. The ice stupa intertwines ambitious goals for environmental management and economic development with social, cultural, and religious values and practices. Early design prototypes appeared to offer a host of social, economic, and environmental benefits to the community of Phyang. Additional contextual considerations and unexpected challenges surfaced later, providing a more nuanced evaluation of the ice stupa as a design strategy. Today, ice stupa adherents aspire to harness a constellation of integrative co-benefits in project prototypes and to demonstrate the broader value of the design to other communities. Beyond simply addressing a discrete environmental adaptation in Ladakh, the ice stupa project highlights the tensions and possibilities in novel design partnerships and the challenge of producing integrated climate adaptive projects.</p>

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Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press

Published: Jul 18, 2020

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