An ongoing exploration into the living relevance of Kashmiri craft and building traditions. These projects investigate how heritage forms, materials, and visual languages can evolve, be recontextualised and find new expression in contemporary contexts. Through design-led inquiry, they create new narratives that connect cultural memory with present day design practices, ensuring that traditional knowledge remains meaningful, relevant, and capable of evolving into the future.

Long before Kashmir was written into histories, its landscape was remembered through stories of lakes and mountains, Nāgas and sages, kings and monks. Here, history and legend have travelled together for centuries, flowing through many voices and taking shape in chronicles, sacred places, manuscripts, journeys, and memory, passed from one generation to the next. Each generation has added another wave to the river of its remembrance.

Traam and Beyond explores and documents these stories through research into Kashmir's histories, traditions, objects, places, and cultural memory. The stories gathered here are part of an ongoing attempt to trace the many narratives that have shaped the valley and to bring them into conversation with the present.