Living Labs Institute

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.

Learning With Local Materials ✕

  • Past

    Data Politics

    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

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Ancient Stone Inscriptions Of Bidar
    • Micro-Context: Citizen Curators Local Collectors
    • +4 More Micro-Context
  • Past

    Jatre as a communal practice

    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

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Allamma Prabhu Jathre
    • Micro-Context: Jatre
    • +1 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
    • Trimester: 02
  • 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

    Mapping to understand socio-ecological phenomena in the place

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Sensitive Ecologies
    • Micro-Context: Ecology In Urban Spaces
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Practices
    • +11 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Workshop
    • Trimester: 02
  • Past

    Maternal archives of songs

    6 – 14 Oct 2025

    Learn with the community to document birth practices, lullabies, remedies, taboos, and learn how to produce narratives

    • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
    • Micro-Context: Beesugallu
    • Micro-Context: Cradle Songs
    • +2 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Primer
    • Trimester: 02