Dear friends, We have opened applications for the first episode of “Making to Understand Panchayat” <https://livinglabs.institute/course/making-to-understand-panchayat/>, a series of place-based learning-through-making offered by School for Community Wellbeing <https://livinglabs.institute/school/school-of-community-wellbeing/> at the Living Labs Institute <https://livinglabs.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. <https://untold.town/fieldnotes/2025/12/beginning-to-map-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) [image: Making to Understand GP Insta 11.jpg] [image: Making to Understand GP Insta 13.jpg] By the end of the 3-day make-a-thon <https://livinglabs.institute/public-pedagogy/> (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/ Questions? Write to us at [email protected] <https://mailto:[email protected]/> 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. +91-9901069117 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/d02219d5-6500-4014-99eb-5abca874d3e0n%40googlegroups.com.
