The Masters of Urban Practice: Curriculum Framework Version 4.0
Krishnachandran Balakrishnan, Gautam Bhan, Anokhi Parikh, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Jayaraj Sundaresan, Aromar Revi, Kavita Wankhade | 2010
Introduction:
The primary objectives of the IIHS curriculum are to create for human settlements professionals, practitioners and researchers from India and other parts of the world:
- An interdisciplinary innovation-oriented knowledge base appropriate to the transformatory opportunities and challenges of South Asian and international settlements in the 21st century.
- A quality application-oriented and experiential learning environment that reaches out through and beyond an open campus to across India and other parts of the world.
- A set of opportunities for inclusion, integrated human development and an engagement with Indian Constitutional values
- Opportunities to develop the technical, integrative and epistemological capacities to:
- Design, develop and help deploy the appropriate technologies, infrastructure and management systems from across the globe
- Incubate and catalyse technical, institutional and social innovation, sustainability and enable good governance
- Effectively respond to contemporary and emerging challenges drawing on both disciplinary and indigenous knowledge
- Serve as a platform for dialogue between the state, private and civil society sectors and citizens, especially the most vulnerable
- Be rooted in South Asian culture, arts, and craft, language and scholarship and thereby set global standards for praxis, education and research.
- Avenues for the deepening of the pedagogical and reflective capacities of the faculty to transact an integrated, interdisciplinary programme to meet these transformatory goals.
This is version 4.0
A copy of the curriculum is available at the IIHS Library for reference.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24943/MUPV4.2010