Courses

Past courses 9

• Past

  Bioregional Cultures: Sacred Sites, Ecology and Syncretism

  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.

  • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
  • Micro-Context: Muhharam Padagalu
  • Micro-Context: Local History
  • +4 More Micro-Context
  • Place: Bidar
  • Place: Gulbarga
  • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
• 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

  Rural Series: Pastoralism and land

  A travel based learning of Pastoral migration, and it’s unique knowledge and exchanges shared with the local land, migratory routes and places.

  • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
  • Place: Gulbarga
  • Place: Bidar
  • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
  • Trimester: 01
• 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

  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

  Whose Land and Whose Development?

  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.

  • Schools For Concentration: Sensitive Ecologies
  • Micro-Context: Solar Farms
  • Micro-Context: Unsustainable Urbanisation
  • +1 More Micro-Context
  • Place: Bidar
  • 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

  Calligraphy and Correspondence

  Learning the Nastaliq script from local calligraphers

  • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
  • Place: Bidar
  • Learning Module: Workshop
  • Trimester: 01
• 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