The Srishti Manipal Institute (SMI) Creative Peer Program is a semester-long fellowship for emerging creative practitioners who want to develop their practice at the intersection of learning, making and facilitating the same for others. As a Creative Peer, you engage with studios, workshops and collaborative spaces while developing your own project within a vibrant learning environment. You become part of an evolving community where practice and pedagogy actively shape one another.
SMI CREATIVE PEER
A PEER PROGRAM FOR EMERGING ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, RESEARCHERS AND CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS WHO WANT TO LOCATE THEIR PRACTICE WITHIN A DYNAMIC
COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS.
WHAT IS THE SMI CREATIVE PEER PROGRAM
WHAT DO I DO IN THE PEER PROGRAM
The fellowship is designed to support you to develop your practice through multiple forms of engagement:
Project Development
Use SMI’s studios, labs and campus resources to explore ideas, prototype work or deepen research in an environment that values experimentation and discovery.
Facilitating Creativity
Engage with learners through studios and workshops as a way of reflecting on your methods, articulating your thinking and expanding your creative enquiry. Learning becomes a two-way process that influences your own practice.
Interdisciplinary Exchange
Collaborate with faculty and peers through open studios and practice-sharing sessions that expose you to new perspectives and ways of working.
Public Engagement
Conclude the semester with a public presentation and a publication that documents your process-helping you shape a clear professional voice and strengthen your portfolio.
A Creative Learning Network
Join a community where practitioners, educators and learners continuously influence one another, creating relationships that often extend beyond the fellowship itself.
WHO SHOULD APPLY
- Recent (2-5 years) graduates in art, design, technology, architecture,
or related fields. - Indian Citizens
- Individuals only.
WHAT SUPPORT DOES SMICP PROVIDE
- A monthly remuneration of INR 60,000 per month for a duration of 3
months. - Studio usage and access in campus.
- Does not support travel to/in Bengaluru or accommodation.
WHY SMI
For over 30 years, SMI has nurtured experimental creative practices and innovative approaches to education. Many of its graduates and collaborators move fluidly between creative practice and pedagogy-shaping new ways of learning and making. SMI is one of the few institutions in India that actively experiments with creative pedagogy as a practice, viewing learning itself as a core skill for future creative practitioners.
By temporarily locating your practice in a creative institution of learning you give yourself an opportunity to pause, learn and grow. SMI will host a project that you want to develop over the course of a semester (3 months). With state of the art studios and makers spaces peppered across the campus, you can ideate, conceptualise and prototype around a diverse range of media.
Campus studios include:
Metal Workshop, Wood Workshop, Fabrication Lab, Weaving Studio, Dyeing & Textile Printing Lab, Natural Fibres Lab, Sewing Lab, Earth Lab, Clay &, Plaster Studio, Garden Studio, Screen Printing & Book Making Studio, Letterpress Studio, Printmaking Studio, Photography Studio, Sound Studio , AR/VR Lab, Stop Motion Studio, Film Shooting Studio