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The Chennai Lab

A home base for fieldwork on culture and money.

The Chennai Lab is the space where we explore the cultural significance behind financial behavior — does Chennai buy more gold during a recession? How is money actually handled inside the home? This is where those questions get asked, recorded, and studied.

PHOTO — The Chennai Lab workspace

How we work here

Fieldwork

Visiting homes, markets, and jewellers to hear how money decisions actually get made.

Interviews

Structured but conversational — recorded on voice and video, in Tamil and English.

Data review

Transcripts get coded into spreadsheets and reviewed for patterns across households.

From the field

PHOTO — interview in a Chennai home
PHOTO — local gold market
PHOTO — transcription session

Have a story to share with the Lab?

We're always looking for households and individuals willing to talk about money.

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