The Hearth Stays

About

The Hearth Stays, a sustainable tourism outfit headed by Purnima Das, an architect by training and passionate traveler herself, has decided to confront reality and organize an up-cycled architecture camp, to bring together innovators in the field, to brainstorm and address the complex challenges of developing a sustainable tourism model for Leh. They have been operating for more than a decade in Leh and have studied the living patterns of both local and tourist. The discrepancy between the two is vast and here lies the crux of the matter. The only way to develop sustainability is to develop the consciousness of the tourist who is the end consumer in the entire system.

We at Hearth realize that there is a resource reality within which we exist, which cannot support the pampering that we have gotten so used to in the cities. There is an upper limit to the life bearing capacity of this region within which we must all exist. In order to confront reality Hearthstays is organizing an up-cycled architecture camp, to bring together innovators in the field, to brainstorm and address the complex challenges we face.