studio
a small studio, working slowly, in aizawl.
the mau is run by Lalrinngheti Sangsiama — researcher, advocate, and designer. the studio is the smallest possible institution that takes mizo bamboo seriously as material, culture, and economy.
what the studio is.
the mau is a studio for research, objects, and archive — three strands that sit on one material. the research is acoustic characterisation of Melocanna baccifera. the objects are small-volume, careful, documented. the archive is a record of mizo material culture that was never going to keep itself.
why.
mizoram holds ninety-eight percent of its bamboo in one species and has no systematic record of how that species behaves — structurally, acoustically, or materially. that is a gap in a thing the state is economically defined by. the studio exists because that gap is not going to close by itself.
the work sits downstream of heritage and upstream of commerce. the journal is where the thinking lives in public; the research section is where the evidence does. the shop will come when there's something honest to put in it.
affiliations.
- 2025 bambooU — eleven-day course in bamboo design and construction, bali.
- jan 2026 the bamboo school, nagaland — greenhub — consulting engagement.
- 2026 — bio design lab, in association with goethe-institut — acoustic characterisation of melocanna baccifera.
- ongoing mizo artisans, aizawl and champhai — making and material knowledge. specific credits appear on each project.
“remembering differently means treating bamboo as what it has always been: a living economy, not a raw input.”
— from the reckoning