Romain Simenel

Romain Simenel studies the relationships between societies and environments, or more simply between humans and other beings, from two perspectives: otherness and learning, which he considers to be the two pillars of human transmission. Based at the Paloc laboratory of the IRD and the Natural History Museum in Paris, his latest research focuses on forms of cultural transmission between children that occur through contact with the environment. His approach focuses on children's ability to learn from each other based on their experience of other living beings, plants, or animals. His fieldwork in Morocco and India enables him to explain how the social, cognitive, and linguistic dimensions of the human mind are articulated in the sensory experience of the environment. Adjunct faculty member at TDU, NIAS and CWS in Bangalore, he is now PI of the Nature based Education program at TDU.