PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Clouse, Carey
TI  - Climate-Adaptive Design: Building up Ladakh’s Ice Stupas
AID  - 10.3368/lj.38.1-2.25
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 25--41
VI  - 38
IP  - 1-2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/38/1-2/25.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/38/1-2/25.full
AB  - This article chronicles the development of a climate-adaptive water management project, called the ice stupa, in Ladakh, a region in northern India. The ice stupa intertwines ambitious goals for environmental management and economic development with social, cultural, and religious values and practices. Early design prototypes appeared to offer a host of social, economic, and environmental benefits to the community of Phyang. Additional contextual considerations and unexpected challenges surfaced later, providing a more nuanced evaluation of the ice stupa as a design strategy. Today, ice stupa adherents aspire to harness a constellation of integrative co-benefits in project prototypes and to demonstrate the broader value of the design to other communities. Beyond simply addressing a discrete environmental adaptation in Ladakh, the ice stupa project highlights the tensions and possibilities in novel design partnerships and the challenge of producing integrated climate adaptive projects.