Aditi Mangla

Aditi’s Bonderman travels will take her through Morocco, Tunisia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to explore a single question: how do environments communicate strain and resilience, and how do communities respond while preserving their relationship with the land? In each country, she plans to attune herself to a different register of ecological listening: tracing water through ancient irrigation channels in Morocco, letting food seasonality reveal soil health in Tunisia, sitting in stillness in Malaysian rainforests, and reading absence across desertified landscapes in Central Asia. She hopes to return not with answers, but with a deeper capacity to listen to the air, water, land, and the lives entwined with them.