These are the essays the practice is built on. They are working documents rather than finished positions, and several of them argue with earlier versions of themselves.
The core argument, in five parts: art as ally rather than intervention, the making as the learning, the performer and the teacher as one craft, play before product, and measurement as translation.
Essay. Publication pending.
Skill training ignores state. Clinical care reaches the unwell. Around 56 percent of adults are neither ill nor flourishing, and almost nothing is built for them. This essay argues that the gap is a category rather than a market segment.
Essay. Publication pending.
What NEP 2020 actually asks for, what the CBSE fifty hour requirement makes possible, and why Tagore, Gandhi and Aurobindo were making this case a century before the circular.
Essay. Publication pending.
The full citation trail, including the claims that have been retired and the reasons for retiring them. Published in summary on the evidence page.
The research behind the six needs, gathered from founders, HR heads and learning heads, and extended into schools, colleges, healthcare and funding bodies.
Essay. Publication pending.
A studio already assumes that making is how people learn. This essay names the cycle the studio inherited, and what a faculty gets back by making it explicit again.
Essay. Publication pending.
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Eight people, one room, no preparation.