Viveca Mellegård: Senses - The Embodied Practice of Indigo Dyeing

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In our latest installment of our 'Senses' series, Isabel chats to Viveca Mellegård about her fascinating research into the practice of indigo dyeing in West Bengal.Viveca is a researcher and filmmaker and started her career making science and arts programmes at the BBC. She integrates film and photography as research methods with a particular interest in making the embodied aspects of craftsmanship visible.She’s doing a collaborative PhD with Royal Holloway and the Economic Botany Department at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Her research links Kew’s colonial era collections of Indigofera tinctoria from India to contemporary indigo production and dyeing in West Bengal. Her work aims to communicate the value of the knowledge and skills embedded in the craft of dyeing with natural indigo and to show how embodied practices can cultivate human-plant relationships.---Viveca is interesting in collecting feedback on the affective power of listening to the indigo dyeing process. If you would like to share anything about your experience of listening to Viveca's talk, perhaps something you felt in response, or a particular moment that chimed with you, please email us at [e-mail].---Image: Viveca Mellegård---Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/144GbprFj00aOLIaF2JdFgnvmCC6p0iKZ/view?usp=sharing ---Technecast is supported by techne DTPTechnecast team: Julien Clin, Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Isabel Sykes