Courses

Past courses 17

• 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

  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

  Seeking Begumpura

  Studio brings together STS, Anti-Caste visions and actions, and Speculative and Service-System design together to develop a critical-creative practice of service / experience design.

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

  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

  Calligraphy and Correspondence

  Learning the Nastaliq script from local calligraphers

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

  Living Crafts: Craft, Community & Wellbeing

  9 Feb – 4 Apr 2026

  We will investigate the resilience of these craft practices, tracking its evolution in the region, where it relied on place-based practices and natural resources, to its necessary adaptation.

  • Schools For Concentration: Art & Craft Practices
  • Place: Bidar
  • Learning Module: Practicum
  • Trimester: 03
• Past

  Listening to a place

  2 – 5 Dec 2025

  This course will be about listening to a place, recording it and sampling it. Students will engage with different modes of listening — from embodied to contextual listening, i.e., listening and sensing with their bodies to listening as a way to learn about a place, its history and politics.

  • Schools For Concentration: Sensitive Ecologies
  • Place: Bidar
  • Learning Module: Make-a-thon
  • Trimester: 02
• 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

  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