Hosted at Serendipity Arts Festival 2024
Project by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi and Srinivas Mangipudi

How do communities quietly, intuitively adapt to a changing climate through their daily rituals and food practices? Make Your Own Climate Recipes was an intimate, participatory workshop that introduced audiences to the idea of climate recipes — everyday, intergenerational instructions that help people adapt to shifting environments, seasons, and resources.

Drawing from a rich, evolving archive of oral knowledge and traditional practices gathered across Goa, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, the facilitators shared examples of how communities have historically responded to climate challenges through simple, thoughtful adjustments in their kitchens, homes, and rituals.

Key highlights included:

• An introduction to the methodology of climate recipes — personal, adaptive instructions that emerge from lived experiences with changing weather, crop patterns, and resource availability.

• Storytelling sessions featuring recipes, remedies, and customs passed down across generations that help navigate monsoons, droughts, heatwaves, and seasonal scarcity.

• An interactive segment where participants were invited to create their own climate recipes, reflecting on their memories, households, and communities’ practices for dealing with environmental shifts.

This workshop encouraged participants to see adaptation not as a top-down intervention, but as a layered, intimate knowledge system carried in food, habits, and memory — offering new ways to think about climate resilience through the lens of everyday life.

About the Project Creators:
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art, ecology, and public histories.
Srinivas Mangipudi is a researcher, artist, and community practitioner whose work focuses on food systems, migration, and environmental memory.