Mansi Shah is an urban designer and landscape practitioner based in Ahmedabad, currently an Adjunct Professor at CEPT University. She pursues collaborative research on ecology and food urbanism through the Productive Urbanism Collective. The team also includes Saloni Gajjar, a permaculturist who runs The rooted circle farm project; Soha Gandhi, a landscape designer who creates handmade paper embedded with botanical specimens through her artistic practice, Kali Papers; and Nithin Kumar J, an architect and urban designer specializing in sustainable urban design.

The artwork “Wild Fragment” is a temporal installation that seeks to reawaken attention. It is a collaborative piece bringing together vegetation and sculptural forms in a sensorial experience, where trees, grasses, rocks and earthen forms ask us to slow down and notice. Plants and natural elements interspersed with terracotta forms act as both artistic and functional presences—gathering rainwater, inviting birds and holding seed pods that sustain quiet exchanges of life.

The takeaway is the creation of a pause—allowing these subtle connections to unfold and be sensed once again, where art becomes a vessel for life itself and makes visible hidden interactions that often go unnoticed.