About
Mission
To provide transdisciplinary and transectoral workshops, consultations, institutes, and R&D in the humanities, arts, and science programs for universities, schools, arts and cultural organizations, NGOs, and corporations.
Our aim is to create new approaches to dialogue, creativity, collaboration, and responses to vexing problems in ways that embrace both the local and the global.
Vision
To co-create transformative synergies, partnerships, and innovations towards more hopeful practices and capacity building towards our shared futures in ways that advance diversity, equity, parity, and opportunity for all.
Directors
Founding Directors Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD, & Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD.
Kanta and Gray Kochhar-Lindgren are the Founding Directors of Wild Studios which focuses on transformative capacity-building in cross-cultural projects, the multisensory arts, transdisciplinary ecologies, and higher education.
Kanta, the Founding Director of Folded Paper Dance and Theatre (Hong Kong), is completing her second Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellowship, researching the ecologies of classical Indian and folk performance. as well as developing curated events with Kerala artists focused on mountains and climate change. She is also writing South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres.
Gray has recently retired from directing the Common Core at the University of Hong Kong—a required series of transdisciplinary courses for 17,000 students - and he continues to serve as an Honorary Professor of Humanities and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature. A Fulbright Scholar in Hong Kong and the Team-Lead for HKU and UGC teaching awards, Gray is currently collaborating on projects on Fast Geology and Dynamic Coastlines, the Liberal Arts in the Global South, and Mountain-Studios.
Both Kanta and Gray are experienced catalysts-of-change in both local and transnational settings.
Partners & Affiliations
Wild Studios builds, and depends upon, networks of partnerships and affiliations.
We partner with colleagues working across sectors, disciplines, methods, cultures, and geographies in order to shape the most precise, effective, and evocative team for each event, workshop, or Institute.