aruvu
collaboratory
Aruvu. A Kannada word, “ಅರುವು” Aruvu, is the “act of observing; attention; regard; heed; cognisance; notice. all that has been perceived or grasped by the mind; learning; enlightenment; knowledge.”
What we do
- 1. Facilitate community-led research projects through participatory creative approaches
- 2. Incubation of local enterprises
- 3. Establishing and maintenance of community owned digital infrastructures and networks
- 4. Digital learning products and curriculum design
- 5. Research and development of products and services that enable community-led development
Engagements
Axioms
Our axioms guide and direct us to operate in a place-based manner. These axioms are adopted from our allied collective Living Labs Network-Team YUVAA
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Knowledge production from Living Practice
Everyday living and practice is a space for knowledge production. Our endeavor is to bring these multi-modal ways of knowledge production into processes of co-creation in our network.
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Place-based actions
The idea of a place encompasses many things, where the process of knowledge production is a result of 'living'. We have found value in repeatedly engaging long-term in a place-based manner.
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Learning from below
Disciplines and practices have reached a stage where problems and issues only find partial responses. We believe communities have a tacit understanding of problems, challenges and constraints that are experiential. We see our platform as a space for co-learning and learning from below.
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Support over Solve
Our world has several problem solvers who focus on isolating a problem and finding an opportunity to 'solve' it through various means. We want to instead build support systems, (infra)structures or objects.
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Culture as a catalyst
Communities and their micro-contexts are sites for cultural production. We want to use culture as a catalyst to build relationships within our network.
Collaborators
