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.

Reimagining Technology ✕

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

    Experimenting With Interactivity

    Course will be available soon! Our courses are collaboratively designed in the field, that takes time. Fellows are currently weaving their practices to carefully think and articulate the purpose of the course and meaningful learning outcomes. Many a times these happen to be our learning interests too in a place. We invite learners who share similar curiosities as us irrespective of their practice-research interests or backgrounds. Our course design draws from never-ending learning possibilities

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Learning Module: Primer
  • 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

    Speculative Design: Anticipating Consequences

    Explores how to weave tightly the critical and the creative in early design process through drawing from Speculative & Critical design methods.

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Yelahanka
    • Place: Yelahanka
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
    • Trimester: 01
  • 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

    Artefact as Method

    6 – 31 Oct 2025

    Learning to intently engage to understand the relational changes occuring in a place using artefact as a method to question, critique, imagine alternates and learn.

    • Schools For Concentration: Reimagining Technology
    • Micro-Context: Yelahanka
    • Learning Module: Primer
    • Trimester: 02