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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.

Bidar ✕Public Engagement ✕

Past courses 7

  • 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

    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

    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

    Sheheroshayiri

    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

    • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
    • Micro-Context: Creative Writing
    • Micro-Context: Linguistic Works Dhakkhani Urdu Writings
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Primer
    • 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

    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