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Design for Learning Studio · DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad
Bring a problem from your school. Leave with a better way to run it.
Five days at DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad for teachers, school leaders and college faculty. You bring one real challenge from your own institution, and use design to understand it, rethink it and test a fix, with a plan to pilot it the week you're back.
Why a studio
Most problems in education are design problems.
A lesson that doesn't land. A lab nobody uses. Assessment that measures memory, not thinking. These aren't solved by another circular. They're solved by understanding the people involved, trying something small and learning from it. That's what the studio teaches, on your own problem.
Teachers
Redesign how you teach
A unit, a project week, a way of giving feedback, or a class that needs to work for every student.
School leaders
Redesign how your school runs
Timetables, assessment, parent communication, teacher onboarding, or how a new lab is actually used.
College faculty and administrators
Redesign a course or a system
Studio courses, juries, student support, internships or a department's first design programme.
What people bring
Real challenges, not case studies.
You choose the challenge before you arrive. A few examples:
- Project-based learning that stays shallowStudents finish projects, but don't think harder because of them.
- Screens and attentionHelping students manage devices, at school and at home.
- AssessmentMarking thinking and process, not just the final answer.
- The unused labAn Atal Tinkering Lab, robotics or makers' space that sits empty most of the week.
- Board-year pressureKeeping curiosity alive in Classes 10 and 12 without hurting results.
- Teacher timeFinding room for new ways of teaching inside a full timetable.
The five days
From your challenge to a pilot you can run.
Each day moves your own challenge forward, in a studio with educators from other schools and colleges.
| Day | Focus | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Frame | Map your challenge and everyone it touches: students, teachers, parents, leaders. Meet DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad and its labs. |
| Day 2 | Listen | Field research: interviews and observation on campus, and calls back to your own institution. Find out what's really going on. |
| Day 3 | Reframe and imagine | Turn what you heard into a sharper question, then generate many ways to answer it. |
| Day 4 | Prototype and test | Build rough versions of your idea, from a new class format to a timetable or a policy, and test them with real people. |
| Day 5 | Plan the pilot | Shape a 90-day pilot for your institution and present it to DIC Hub faculty and the studio for feedback. |
After the five days
The studio ends. The pilot begins.
01
90-day pilot
Run a small version of your idea where you work.
02
Faculty check-ins
Online reviews with DIC Hub faculty during the pilot.
03
Share what happened
Bring results, good or bad, back to the studio community.
04
Alumni community
Stay in touch with educators working on similar problems.
Come as a team
Two or three from one institution go further.
Change sticks when more than one person has seen why it matters. We encourage schools and colleges to send a small team: a leader with one or two teachers works best.
How it differs from the FTP
Studio or Faculty Training Programme?
The Faculty Training Programme trains you to teach design thinking to students. The Studio uses design to improve how your own institution teaches, assesses or runs. Many educators do both.
Faculty Training ProgrammeCertification
DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad, with HCD Institute
A certificate from the Design Innovation Centre, IIT Hyderabad, awarded with The Institute of Human-Centred Design once you complete the studio and present your pilot plan.
Who you'll learn with
The DIC Hub team.
Dr Deepak John Mathew
Professor, IIT Hyderabad · Head, DIC Hub · Founding Board Member, HCD Institute
Mathew Sebastian
Founding Board Member, HCD Institute · Fellow, DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad
Jacinta Bell
Interaction designer · Researcher, DIC Hub · Fellow, HCD Institute
Marsukola Kranthi Kiran
Member, DIC · Research Scholar, IIT Hyderabad
FAQ
Good questions.
Who is the studio for?
What do I need to bring?
Can we come as a team?
How is it different from the Faculty Training Programme?
When do applications close?
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Design for Learning Studio · DIC Hub, IIT Hyderabad