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.

Trimester 02 · 2025-2026 ✕

  • 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

    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

    Local culinary practices, nutrition and wellbeing

    11 – 16 Oct 2025

    Cooking is more than taste, it is everyday knowledge of care, health, and sustenance shaped by place, culture, and community. In this travelling studio, we learn by tasting, listening, and moving through kitchens.

    • Schools For Concentration: Community Wellbeing
    • Micro-Context: Fishmarkets
    • Micro-Context: Food Habits In Sa Cluster
    • +1 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Gangolli
    • Place: Kundapura
    • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
    • 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
  • 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