From outside our environment the driving forces of change-be it for our curriculum, our pedagogy or ways of learning or in terms of defining competences-come from the edge; the edge is where new knowledge and new areas of focus emerge in the complex, ever changing world we live in! These bubbles of new ideas, new ways of engaging with our aspiring practitioners help us create a dynamic ecosystem of learning. As the aspirants move and navigate their own personal journeys within Srishti Manipal they emerge into the external world as independent, thoughtful, artistic and caring members of the community, sure of themselves and of their positions as creative practitioners.
Upstream is the source of our ideas and is located in the everyday, the universal, the enduring and the timeless.
Downstream is the confluence of the individual with the universe, of the practitioner with the world outside of practice and of the freedom to be.
Experience tells us that, each aspirant comes with hopes and fears and we work with each one on an individual scale enabling the painful process of “letting go” in order to let new practice, newer or more refined or nuanced ideas emerge- “letting come”
The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.
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Fields of Practice represent the nature of the knowledge and its practical manifestation. Each Field of Practice defines clearly ways of learning as research or inquiry; experimental or intuitive; hands-on and skill based. Our Fields of Practice include:
Advanced Studies and Research
Continuing Professional Practice
Skill-based Vocational Education
New Learner Pedagogies and Processes
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While Fields of Practice sets the backdrop for our academic endeavors, the actual knowledge creation and development of practice are located under four clusters of intersection or domains. They are
Media, Arts and Science (MAS)
Design Business and Technology (DBT)
New Humanities (NH)
Law Environment and Planning (LEP)
These clusters allow us at Srishti Manipal to have a perspective that in today’s world understanding connections, interstices and spaces between domains of knowledge is as important as expertise in one domain. These interdisciplinary and in some cases transdisciplinary clusters need nuanced and carefully constructed knowledge development that is contextual to our society and our times, yet universal and perhaps timeless in scope. All academic programs at Srishti Manipal are located within these four clusters of inter or transdisciplinary studies and practice.
The Srishti Manipal Learning Ecosystem is supported by practitioners from a wide range of professional and academic backgrounds. These professionals help each aspiring practitioner navigate the Fields of Practice and the Interdisciplinary Domains located within them.
The result of our ecosystem manifests itself in a rich interdisciplinary world of programs and courses, each one of which translate our promise into memorable and meaningful learning experiences. The diagram below reflects the breadth and scope of this and illustrates both its scope and its inter-connectedness.