A FOREST OF LEARNING
Vanamu is an urban permaculture learning space taking root in North Bangalore, India, for those seeking to learn ecological building, craft, and regenerative living. We organise apprenticeships and learning gatherings where participants work closely with craftspeople, land, and natural materials. Acting as facilitators between masters and learners, we cultivate spaces of attentiveness where knowledge moves through practice and care.
WHAT WE DO
Design-Build with Craftspeople
Hands-on workshops and apprenticeships with natural materials.
Urban Permaculture Design
Research and Development of urban solutions for regenerative design futures
Experience Ecological Living
Be a part of a community living consciously and actively building Vanamu
WHY IT MATTERS
Traditional knowledge is disappearing — not because
materials are gone, but because transmission is breaking.
When craft is separated from land and learning from practice, continuity weakens.
Vanamu exists to keep that circle alive.
Here, masters teach.
Apprentices learn slowly.
Projects become classrooms.
Community becomes soil.
From soil, forest.
SEASIONAL INVITATIONS
Design-Build with Craftspeople
Hands-on workshops and apprenticeships with natural materials.
Urban Permaculture Design
Research and Development of urban solutions for regenerative design futures
Experience Ecological Living
Be a part of a community living consciously and actively building Vanamu
T H O U G H T H E P R O B L E M S O F T H E W O R L D A R E I N C R E A S I N G LY C O M P L E X ,
T H E S O L U T I O N S R E M A I N E M B A R R A S S I N G LY S I M P L E
— B I L L M O L L I S O N