Shreya Udupa KS Batch 2020
Schools and universities have always been the standard system of training, the existence of which is limited to the four walls of a modular classroom. These define a more serious and stressful learning environment. The study room in our homes, the slab we sit on and revise, the frontyard where a mother asks her kids questions from their text books are the spaces that are more at leisure, resulting in a more productive learning. There is no demarcated boundary to these spaces and thus are broadly categorised into informal leaming spaces. Now, can there be a system which included both?
Mattur, is the perfect example for a vilage that already has sets of both patterns of learning happening, except it is not connected with the settlement or with each other: This provides for an opportunity to intervene between the conventional and unconventional learning spaces. The entire settlement develops in such a way that it forms nooks and corners in the built fabric to accommodate the informal learning that has been the tradition since generations and the formal training required by decree. The streetscape, unbuilt spaces around the buit, jagal kattes along different spaces, backyards are all different forms of structure.