About

The Kathmandu Valley Urban History Project (KVUHP) is a research and public knowledge initiative that works towards understanding, documenting and telling stories about the ways that Kathmandu is experiencing change. Through place-based research, archiving, and storytelling, the project seeks to contribute to the public discourse on urbanization, the commons, and imaginations for the future.  

The project was initiated in March 2020 with a cohort of seven research fellows. The group includes researchers, storytellers, artists and activists, and was advised by two experts: urban geographer Sabin Ninghlekhu, and environmental historian Tom Robertson. The project started off with a reading and discussion seminar in March 2020, which was followed by independent research. Fellows have collated archival and current photographs, videos, oral history interviews, maps, documents, and other material from diverse sources to create a repository of knowledge that is being made available to the public on this web platform.

KVUHP is a project under Nepal Picture Library and Photo Circle.