The Center for the Study of Knowledge, Materials and Materiality (KaMM Center) is a non-profit organization focused on research, public history, and digital humanities.

The KaMM Center seeks to understand how processes, skills, and technologies are organized across different places and periods. Our research focuses on the knowledge systems and materials that shape these processes, with an emphasis on how they are embedded in everyday life, memory, and social relations.

Grounded in Nepal, where many of us live and work, our questions and interests extend beyond national borders, following the movements of people, ideas, and materials across the region. We attend particularly to the region north of the Siwaliks hills. This landscape is central to our research, not as a marginal space, but as a distinct region with its own historical trajectories, geographical affordances, and forms of purposeful striving. While our approach is informed by a broader South Asian context, our starting point lies in the particular textures and experiences of this terrain. 

Committed to making scholarship accessible and widely available, we create exhibitions, develop digital content, and publish books for readers of different ages. 

KaMM is fiscally hosted in Nepal by Martin Chautari and KaMM USA is fiscally hosted by the Climate Justice Hive in Boulder.