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.

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Past courses 6

  • 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

    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

    Syncretic cultures in Dakkhani Architectural Heritage

    An inquiry into syncretic cultures of Deccan Sultanate through the legacy of the architectural heritage and history of the region.

    • Micro-Context: Bawdi
    • Micro-Context: Gulbarga Fort
    • +4 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Place: Bijapur
    • Place: Gulbarga
    • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Alternative Glossaries: Water systems in ONEs

    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.

    • Schools For Concentration: Sensitive Ecologies
    • Micro-Context: Water Systems
    • Micro-Context: Restoration And Conservation Of Karez
    • Trimester: 03
  • 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