Living Labs Institute

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Archit Dhiman

I am an interdependent and anti-disciplinary learner. My work revolves around making environments, technologies or mediums for information, experiences and often, dreams.

archit@livinglabs.institute

I am an interdependent and anti-disciplinary learner. My work revolves around making environments, technologies or mediums for information, experiences and often, dreams. My practice is currently situated in Bidar, where I learn alternative worldmaking with communities and find some ground-ing for imagining otherwise.

On learning

There is no distinction between learning and living. It is my intent to facilitate learning spaces where knowledge is not acquired but situated within the lived experiences of the learners. The process will be led by embodied experimentation, critical making and sometimes aimlessly walking together. The learning space will be fostered as a network of care - for people, places and practices.

Situated Practice

My practice is situated in the city of Bidar where I am not only encouraged to learn by sensing and listening to the rhythms of the place but also to bring my own sounds to it. It is a world where many worlds exist. Entangled in these many worlds, my work emerges out of the following long-term engagements in the place -

Dakkhan Ke, Local Techno Futures, Living Labs Institute

Courses

  • 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

    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