Anant Fellowship Programmes

UNESCO Chair Modules

UNESCO Chair offers two flagship modules entitled Safeguarding Intangible Heritage and Sustainable Heritage Development through the Anant Fellowship programme. These modules introduce the Fellows to new perspectives on UNESCO standard-setting instruments. They are interdisciplinary and delivered with capacity building/professional development approaches, given the diverse disciplinary backgrounds of the Fellows.

Societal & Cultural

Learn about the aspects of the built environment through the lens of other established domains of knowledge such as history, anthropology, ecology and finance.

• Art and Historical Perspectives
• Art in Everyday Spaces
• Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
• Sustainable Heritage Development

Fundamentals of Built Environment

Essential concepts in architecture, urban design and urban planning.

• Introduction to the Built Environment
• Urban Design Theory
• Writing for Built Environment
• Unbuilding Architecture

Language and Methodology

Techniques of mapping, analysis & communication in the built environment studies

• Design Thinking
• Media and Visual Communication
• Biomimicry: Learning from Nature
• Netflix and Art of Design Writing

Design for Development

Understanding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) within the domain of the built environment

• SDGs and Built Environment
• Women Society and Changing India
• Sustainable Farming
• Cultural Tourism

Self-Growth

Exploring values and strengths in leadership, empathy and critical thinking

• Interpersonal Dynamics
• Emerging Leader Programme
• Exploration in Life Space, Roles and Identity
• Building Habits, Careers and Environments

Live-Action Project

The ‘action’ part of the curriculum, LAP offers hands-on learning to the Fellows by working on live projects on the ground. Working in teams and with help of stakeholders, the Fellows apply their classroom learnings to tackle challenges to the built environment by devising innovative solutions.

Objectives

Timeline

Project Diversity

Biomimicry Frontiers is award-winning sustainability and strategic planning firm based in Guelph, Ontario.

This joint project is part sustainable design, part community building. There is an opportunity to support a one of its kind, “biomimetic house” in Bengaluru, India. At the same time, we will be building a biomimicry online community called, the Biomimicry Commons. The goal is to push the boundaries of residential design and to create a powerful space for people to build their own biomimetic business, respectively.

The objective of the campaign is to ensure we work with partners and schools to ensure that the child’s voice is heard by collecting their inputs, compiling the same and producing it to the local government for their action.

The Fellows will research any unexplored culture area and present an impact assessment study on its significance to the tourism economy, the society and the environment. The report shall imperatively include history of the place, narratives of the cultural assets, value of architecture in the tourism product, its marketing attributes, conservation policies and post-pandemic management strategies.

Conventional methods in agriculture are not sustainable as it is deleterious to environment and natural resources. There are alternate ways in agriculture which promises to be more sustainable. It is important to explore and integrate processes in food production system which is sustainable and thus beneficial to both, people and the planet. To understand different implications of agriculture and explore processes and methods in agriculture which is beneficial to both, people and the environment.

Aranyika Masterplan Competition Launch & Conclusion (an international competition that’s being conducted to collect the thoughts from all across the planet to conceptualize the physical form of Aranyika, Setting up the Volunteer System Setting up of a Transitional Facility. This facility should be based on a NET ZERO theme, along primarily 3 axis; Net-Zero WASTE, Net-Zero Carbon Footprint, Net-Zero Finance. 6 months

The team will create fabric from waste materials and promote them as a sustainable alternative for chemically produced harmful materials whose fabrication results in lot of chemical emissions ‘Crazy idea’- To create a fabric out of Agriculture waste, Cow dung and want this fabric to replace the materials which cause lot of damage to the environment in various ways.