All the courses in the offering in the learning year 2025-26 are published. Start curating your Learning Journey with us. Each course is structured as a specific learning module, which are designed to offer multiple entry points, intentionally flexible in a way that the learner can find their tempo along the way and choose the modules and the courses that works for them and their learning intent.
6 Jan – 19 Feb 2027
A course to learn about listening as a practice to understand open natural ecosystems through museums
Delving into the historical inter-linkages of community sacred sites and the surrounding ecologies. A look into myths, legends, and how locally rooted rituals-practices help us understand the micro social and ecological relationships.
How communities are interdependent and are co-existing? Also how some are disappearing and what future can be imagined?
Public maps and knowledge of places may often be centralised and made with intents not from the people: What tools and technologies can we use to subvert and reimagine maps and the representation of knowledge of places. Learners will work with community collaborators and technologies.
Course will be available soon! Our courses are collaboratively designed in the field, that takes time. Fellows are currently weaving their practices to carefully think and articulate the purpose of the course and meaningful learning outcomes. Many a times these happen to be our learning interests too in a place. We invite learners who share similar curiosities as us irrespective of their practice-research interests or backgrounds. Our course design draws from never-ending learning possibilities
Learning Module: Primers Abstract / Short description: Understanding data practices and how it affects communities? How is data/knowledge/media/archives built and maintained in communities? Tangible media/data as ownership? Ethics, governance and ownership. Concentration: Reimagining Technology Learning Mode: Baithak, Learning with Materials (from the place), Public Engagement Micro-Context: Ancient Stone Inscriptions of Bidar, Citizen Curators (Local Collectors), Dakkhani Art & Literature, Khat
Explores how to weave tightly the critical and the creative in early design process through drawing from Speculative & Critical design methods.
Studio brings together STS, Anti-Caste visions and actions, and Speculative and Service-System design together to develop a critical-creative practice of service / experience design.
A travel based learning of Pastoral migration, and it’s unique knowledge and exchanges shared with the local land, migratory routes and places.
Jatre are a moment for large public gatherings that intertwines cultural practices, religious festivals and local economy. In this travelling studio series we will learn from culturally rooted practice of Jatre in Bidar region
Mapping & Understanding the living practices of Visual Cultures in Bidar and their production. And collaboratively exploring possible alternative presents (and futures) of the practices.
A collective inquiry to understand the nexus the social factors, politics and policies framework behind green energy projects affecting commons & wildlife habitat, shrinking grasslands and Patoralism.
An inquiry into syncretic cultures of Deccan Sultanate through the legacy of the architectural heritage and history of the region.
A place is a cradle for memories, songs, material of these crafts. We look at already existing poetry and songs, and understand from these place-writers
In this practicum we will reimagine the idea of an archive as something that's alive and evolving. This module will directly learn from and contribute to Bidar Heritage Centre Archives, our long-term infrastructuring engagement.
A Geo-spatial mapping of formal & informal systems of community health and wellbeing, annotated with stories of lived experiences that highlight the practices of negotiation & navigation
Introduces the formal & informal health systems that exist in Kundapura and Bidar (as specific cases), and how people navigate across these systems to manage their health and wellbeing
Learning the Nastaliq script from local calligraphers
23 – 26 Mar 2026
Learn to develop a glossary that will communicate the diversity of life, conditions, and uses it holds for both humans and other ecology.
12 – 15 Mar 2026
By learning closely with community practitioners, we co-create archives that foreground community voices while reflecting on their own food memories, positioning archiving as a practice of care and responsibility.
9 – 13 Mar 2026
This workshop focuses on learning about women’s role and labour in Sanjeevini Sanghas, Panchayats, Krishi Kendras, Grama Panchayat and other PRIs that have been crucial to the development and wellbeing of people and places.
8 – 11 Mar 2026
How does a Gram Panchayat - the fundamental unit of democratic self-governance, and closest to the people - plan, build, maintain and sustain infrastructures of and for its public?
3 Mar – 11 Apr 2026
What imaginations of citizens do governance technologies centre, and intend to operationalise at scale? If and how are these imaginations are rooted in a place?
9 Feb – 4 Apr 2026
We will investigate the resilience of these craft practices, tracking its evolution in the region, where it relied on place-based practices and natural resources, to its necessary adaptation.
18 – 21 Dec 2025
How does a Gram Panchayat - the fundamental unit of democratic self-governance, and closest to the people - plan, build, maintain and sustain infrastructures of and for its public?
2 – 5 Dec 2025
This course will be about listening to a place, recording it and sampling it. Students will engage with different modes of listening — from embodied to contextual listening, i.e., listening and sensing with their bodies to listening as a way to learn about a place, its history and politics.
3 – 14 Nov 2025
Artefacts embedded in a place are containers of shared experiences among communities. In this unit we will assemble narratives through cultural artefacts to initiate a public dialogue.
26 Oct – 1 Nov 2025
This workshop will explore the socioecological system of this transect in with maps as a tool, guide and an artefact that documents observations, and communicates the entangled nature of these systems.
11 – 16 Oct 2025
Cooking is more than taste, it is everyday knowledge of care, health, and sustenance shaped by place, culture, and community. In this travelling studio, we learn by tasting, listening, and moving through kitchens.
6 – 14 Oct 2025
Learn with the community to document birth practices, lullabies, remedies, taboos, and learn how to produce narratives
6 – 31 Oct 2025
Learning to intently engage to understand the relational changes occuring in a place using artefact as a method to question, critique, imagine alternates and learn.