On a Wednesday afternoon, cars honking through the boulevards of Fort paint the very picture Dr Ajanta Sen evokes when she speaks of the relationship of urban India with nature. "We are inspired by it, and yet, treat it so harshly," she confides. At one such verdant junction stands the National Gallery of Modern Art, which is exhibiting the result of 18 months of research that she undertook with Prof Ravi Poovaiah of the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. Called Nature Embedded: A Design Technology Experience, the exhibition curated by Dr Sen, founder of Design in India, a resource site for the design community in India, uses 15 different media that pay tribute to nature through design.