Paid course (Dec 18–20, Kundapura) | Call for Applications — “Making to Understand Panchayat”
Naveen Bagalkot
We have opened applications for the first episode of “Making to Understand Panchayat”, a series of place-based learning-through-making offered by School for Community Wellbeing at the Living Labs Institute. In the first episode of the series we will focus on learning about local self-governance of public water infrastructures of Aluru gram panchayat through making public speculative dashboards. For this course we build on our ongoing work of Mapping Public Water Infrastructures of Aluru Gram Panchayat.
Course Name: Making to Understand Panchayat.
Facilitators: Vidya HP, Sangeetha Rajapandian, and Naveen Bagalkot with Rajesh Devadiga, Prashant Kulal and other members of the Village Water & Sanitation Committee of Aluru & Harkuru.
Expected NLH: 28 Hours
Start Date:18 December 2025
End Date: 20 December 2025
Trimester: 02
Cohort size: 15
Place: Aluru, Kundapura Taluk, Udupi District
Concentration: School for Community Wellbeing
Course Fee: ₹19,824 (includes accommodation, meals, local commute, materials & learning support)
By the end of the 3-day make-a-thon (an intense mode of learning through collaborative making as a way to inquire, explore, and experiment), the learners will have developed ways to understand local self-governance through making & mapping, learned making public dashboards with different materials & media, and contributed to ongoing collective efforts of mapping to support participatory self-governance of water in Aluru GP.
About Aluru.
Aluru is a gram panchayat in Kundapura Taluk, part of the region located between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, with dense forests and red laterite rocky terrain. It has two actively working Village Water & Sanitation Committees, negotiating across forest department and irrigation department to get access to water to feed the farms that are cut into gentle terraces across the hilly landscapes. Aluru offers a rich opportunity to learn the diverse water infrastructure, the practices of multi-stakeholder negotiations, processes of public participation in local decision-making, the role of data and information, and the links between water and health & wellbeing.
Apply now: https://livinglabs.institute/course/making-to-understand-panchayat/
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Warm regards
Naveen Bagalkot
Fellow, Living Labs Institute
Senior Fellow & Partner, Aruvu Collaboratory
Translator-Weaver-Facilitator, Living Labs Network & Forum
Member of Board of Directors, Movement for Youth Awareness & Alternatives
Professor, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.
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