Courses

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.

Critical Making ✕

  • Past

    Interaction between craft communities

    How communities are interdependent and are co-existing? Also how some are disappearing and what future can be imagined?

    • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
    • Micro-Context: Weavers In Chittaguppa
    • Micro-Context: Bamboo Weavers
    • +8 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Trimester: 02
  • Past

    Participatory Mapping with People, Bidar and the internet: Tools and Technologies

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Ecology In Urban Spaces
    • Micro-Context: Old Residences
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
  • Past

    Micro Histories and Alternative Presents of Visual Cultures of Bidar

    Mapping & Understanding the living practices of Visual Cultures in Bidar and their production. And collaboratively exploring possible alternative presents (and futures) of the practices.

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Ceramic Tile Works Local Influence
    • Micro-Context: Ancient Stone Inscriptions Of Bidar
    • +3 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Core Pathway
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Place as Archive - Syncretic Cultures

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Practices
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Festivals
    • +2 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Mapping Community Systems of Wellbeing

    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

    • Schools For Concentration: Community Wellbeing
    • Micro-Context: Tribal Settlements
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Practices
    • Learning Module: Workshop
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Flavors of Memory: Archiving food stories and recipes’

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
    • Micro-Context: Communities With Rhc
    • Learning Module: Make-a-thon
    • Trimester: 03
  • Past

    Panchayats & Participatory Futures: Local Self-Governance & Water in Aluru

    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?

    • Schools For Concentration: Community Wellbeing
    • Micro-Context: Tribal Settlements
    • Learning Module: Make-a-thon
    • Trimester: 03
  • Past

    Making to understand Panchayat

    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?

    • Schools For Concentration: Community Wellbeing
    • Micro-Context: Tribal Settlements
    • Learning Module: Make-a-thon
  • Past

    Assembling the plural world

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Community Histories Practices Dhors
    • Micro-Context: Community Histories Practices Gowli
    • +2 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
    • Trimester: 02
  • Past

    Artefact as Method

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Yelahanka
    • Learning Module: Primer
    • Trimester: 02