Flow India

What if entrepreneurship wasn’t all about business plans or startup ideas, but began with learning how to think?

At Udyam: Thinking in Action, the entrepreneurship thinking skills programme we designed for secondary school students at the Emami Legacy Centre, students explored entrepreneurship through a different lens - breaking it down into a set of foundational skills such as spotting opportunities, creative thinking, adaptability, and risk-taking.

Through the story of a 50-year legacy company, hands-on activities, games, and storytelling, students explored what it takes to become part of people’s everyday lives - and the thinking behind it.

Swipe through to see how we reimagined entrepreneurship for young learners!

What if we stopped viewing heritage edifices as passive structures and started seeing them as active witnesses?

For centuries, we’ve held the agency—observing, protecting, and interpreting monuments—while they stood silently as the “seen.” But the recently crafted Cultural Heritage Messengers programme, commissioned by the , flipped the lens, asking students to imagine the monument as the viewer rather than the object.

Through holographic videos and narrative shifts, they stepped out of the present and into the “mind” of the site. If these structures have been watching the rise and fall of empires for eons, what stories are they waiting to tell us?

It’s time to listen: What if the monument has been looking at you all along?

This creative thought experiment was unpacked by students of grades 7 & 8 at the , , , and

If you are a school in Bangalore keen to explore this programme for your learners, keep an eye out for the calendar notifications at MAP in the coming months.

It has been such a privilege to have been a part of the prestigious project, where Flow India was commissioned to develop their public engagement strand for school-going stakeholders in 2023-24. Last week at the project’s concluding conference in New Delhi, was invited to present the learning enquiry design and implementation programme we ran for 34 Civics educators and their students in grades 7 & 8 across 7 cities in India. It couldn’t have been more rewarding to have educators Tarunika Gupta and Ashu Bhardwaj from Nehru World School and Shweta Kathuria and Garima Shrivastava from SVIS, Dwarka who were a part of the programme, attend the session and to learn from them that learning experiences from the toolkit continue to be a part of their classrooms and have Dr. Biswajit Saha, Director, Skill Education and Training, CBSE, who was a discussant on the panel, engage with the teachers.

To pull the Social Sciences away from the margins of young people’s school experience into the heart of it needs bold innovations and continuous leaps of faith! Grateful that the Laws of Social Reproduction Project and Dr. gave us that opportunity to make nuanced ideas around gendered labour and social justice, accessible and relevant Civics educators and their learners.