A school without walls

Study is something
we do together.

School of Instituting Otherwise is a space for learning, production and partnership in the arts, culture, media, and education. We organize syllabi, workshops, and conversations in collaboration with cultural practitioners, teachers, academics, journalists, and writers, for the fragile yet enduring practices of knowledge creation are central to memory and history-making, while truth faces relentless assault. School of IO is both a site of preservation and a platform for exchange. We treat memory, cultural production, and documentation as active tools for shaping futures, bridging past and present through study, history-making, and storytelling. Working with communities fighting for liberation, living in exile, or denied spaces of teaching under scholasticide, we activate and reinterpret histories so they continue to speak to the urgencies of our time.

Collective study✦Situated knowledge✦Critical practice✦Instituting otherwise

01 / Why we gather

Knowledge is not a commodity.
It is a relationship.

We bring together artists, writers, educators, scholars, and cultural workers to ask difficult questions and build forms of learning grounded in shared inquiry.

Across borders and disciplines, our programmes connect historical memory, contemporary culture, and political practice—making room for experiment, refusal, and new institutional imaginaries.

02 / Study now

Current programmes

Before Consent workshop artwork

Course offering

Before Consent, There Was the Kitchen

Food, body, home, and power as sites of memory and struggle.

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Visual Culture Curriculum

How is seeing organised—and how might it be reconfigured?

A flexible curriculum of clusters, workshops, reading groups, and collective projects across images, archives, spaces, and systems.

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03 / Thinking with

Conversation as a
collective practice

Thinking together in the midst of constraint and struggle—holding open ways of instituting otherwise.

04 / The school is its people

Learning across
borders and generations.

Meenakshi Thirukode
Meenakshi ThirukodeWriter, artist, founder
Poorvi Gupta
Poorvi GuptaJournalist, embroidery artist

Our community includes artists, educators, writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners.

Meet the people

Notes from the school

Stay with the questions.

New conversations, programmes, reading lists, and writing—delivered without noise.