Khyati Saraf received her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2014 and is now a practising landscape architect from New Delhi, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Saraf and Ishita Sharma form an artistic collaborative team that investigates the impact of industrialization in coastal Gujarat, India.
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Throughout the Digital Earth fellowship 2018 - 2019, Saraf and Sharma seek to investigate, reveal and critique the two realities found in the development narrative of Coastal Gujarat. By merging geospatial technologies, empirical evidence and visual documentation they aim to spatially and visually represent the displacement protocols and financial logics impressed upon the region of Kutch. They have been aiming to bridge this gap between the ‘cloud’ space and the grounding landscape through deeply personal stories, on-site documentation and cartography to thread a cogent visual narrative.