In the Practice Term, Fellows have an option to work on live IIHS projects across IIHS research, practice and capacity building programmes as well as in IIHS Labs for two months, enabling real-time application of theories and skills learnt during UFP. It is envisaged that specific project-related tasks would enable knowledge and skill building in specific area(s), in addition to classroom sessions. Fellows are also able to develop and hone several soft skills during their project work including teamwork, time management and presentation skills. If they join live IIHS projects, Fellows work under the supervision of IIHS Faculty and teams.
For Fellows interested in independent work, there is an option to take on an Independent Project under IIHS Faculty mentorship. Here, the Fellow uses the two months of the Practice Term to do independent research work with an approved project plan, including primary fieldwork and writing towards publication.
The 2022-23 Fellows worked on the following live projects within IIHS:
| A critical examination of a pilot project for housing solutions for the unorganised industrial workers | Justice implications of large-scale Renewable Energy deployment: A case of Pavagada solar park |
| Archiving Planning for Activists (KNOW website) | Mapping KR Puram: Analysing Economy, Ecology, Housing and Built Environment in KR Puram |
| Atlas of solid waste processing/ disposal sites in Karnataka/ India | Mapping the existing ecosystem of creche(s) for informal women workers |
| Building Curriculum | Rethinking off-grid cities |
| Cinema in the City: Understanding cinema exhibition ecosystems | Role of Flood Preparedness Assessment Scorecard in improving flood preparedness and actual response – A review of effectiveness |
| Drivers and Delivery Workers: Matching Occupational Hazards with Health Insurance | Sustainability Assessment of Experimental Building at Kengeri |
| Exploring Caste dimensions in Urban: A Literature Review | Scoping literature review on intersections of climate change and health in India |
| Housing and living conditions of women migrant blue-collar workers in garment and textile industries | State of the Field: Social Protection |
| Imagining an Urban NREGA | Understanding marginalisation from the intersection of health in the urban – a scoping review |
| Industrial Estates and their impact on Employment and Ecology |
The 2022-23 Fellows worked on the following independent projects
| Evolvement of Religious Identity in the University Setting |
| Non-normative Gender, Desire, and Domesticity |
| Revisiting Caste in Urban University |
Fellows of the 2016-2020 batches have worked on the following independent projects:
| Assessment of Shelter Arrangements: Rohingya Refugees in Bengaluru | How are Cultural Practices reproduced in the City?: The site of the Drishti Gombe |
| Bodh Gaya’s Rural Urban Dilemma | Space, Belonging and Everyday Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) |
| Lakes Beyond Barriers: A Case Study of Jakkur Lake | Story of a Street |
Fellows of the 2016 – 2020 batches have worked on the following live Projects:
| A City of Migrants: Understand Precarity Through Livelihood Lens in Siliguri | Metropolitan Development and Land-based Financing |
| A Morphology of Delhi Through its Property Records | Metropolitan Land-based Financing for Bangalore International |
| Aggregators: A Tale of Regulations | PEAK Urban Project: Manufacturing Cities |
| Calcutta Citi(es): Planning and Variations | PEAK Urban Land: Analysis of Land Based Financing at the Bangalore Airport |
| Development and Performance Indicators for 12 Urban Local Bodies in Karnataka | PEAK Urban Land: Making of an Economic Hub |
| Ecological Farming In The Urban | PEAK Urban Land: Understanding the Economic and Financial value of Land in Jolly Mohalla |
| Enabling Inclusive Conversations Around Exclusive Breastfeeding | Rental Housing Arrangements and Domestic Workers in Jaipur |
| Exploratory Study On Governance: A Spatial Story Perspective Governing Land | To Develop a Digital Module to Facilitate Monitoring of Accounting Activities as part of the Management of Community Toilets in Trichy |
| Healthy Vizag: Interventions in Sanitation and Solid Waste. | UNICEF Programming 101 – Urban Informality and Childcare |
| Living with Floods: How Rural Volunteers Centre in Assam is Building Community Resilience | UNICEF – Urban Informality and Childcare |
| Masculinities and Micro-entrepreneurship: The Experience of App Work. | Accessibility of Urban Spaces for Differently Abled People |
| Moving towards a Gender-Sensitive Pedagogy | Affordable Comfort for All: Analysis of Thermal Comfort at the Experimental Building, Kengeri Campus |
| Planning ‘Violations’ and Urban Inclusion | Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) A Survey on Rental Housing – Program Review |
| Peri-Urban Transformation and Adaptation Strategies in Bengaluru’s Periphery | Changing Landlord and Tenant Relationship Post-Covid |
| Refurbishment of District Hospitals in Lucknow | Cities of What-ifs |
| Resilient Strategy for Cuttack’s Health Woes (with a focus on Jaundice) | Covid 19 and Lockdown Impact on Domestic Workers of Jaipur |
| State of the Field report on Urban Health in India | Household Risk and Insurance |
| Secondary Research on Rental Housing | Innovative Land-based Financing Mechanisms used by the BBMP |
| Tales From Cochin | Impact of Covid 19 and Lockdown on RHAs of Domestic Workers. Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU), Jaipur |
| The Hungry Cities | Landlord Tenant Relationships (LTR) in Rental Housing Arrangements of Jaipur, in Association with Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU) |
| Toolkit on Housing and Planning for Housing Rights Activists in Jharkhand | (Im)possibilities of Cosmopiltan Potentialities and Negation of the Urban Conditions |
| Understanding the Landscape of Institutions and Collaborative Action in Bangalore’s Water Sector | Making Industrial Corridors work for Agriculture in India: An Op Ed |
| Why the “Why vs Micro-entrepreneur” Debate is Reductive – Seeing Through the Eyes of Uber/ Ola Driver Partners | Main Bhi Dilli – Research and Advocacy |
| Across Policy and Practice: Exploring the Land Pooling Story | Mapping Economic Clusters in Bangalore Neighbourhoods: Moving Beyond the Cities Embellished Growth Story |
| Building Capacity for the Future City in Developing Countries (PEAK) | Mega Infrastructure: Mapping the Industrial Landscape of Tumkur |
| Social, Built Form and Land Audit, Indore | Niligiri Biosphere and the Communication Archive of the Pandemic |
| Financial Modeling of Baby Box Project (Maa Tere Doodh Ka Haq) | PEAK Project (Research area: Urban Health) |
| PEAK Land – Jolly Mohalla | Skin Net Zero Building in Solar Decathlon India (SDI) |
| PEAK Economy | Survey on Rental Housing Program Review: Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHCs) Ease of Living |
| PEAK Land Based Financing | Tracing Impact and Recovery of Domestic Workers in jaipur |
| Latthe Di Chaddar (Municipal Schools in Chandigarh) | Urban Flood (+ Drought): Vulnerability Assessment |
| PEAK Infrastructure and Planning | When the Levee Breaks: Sharpening India’s Climate Reportage in the Age of Anthropocene |
| Peri-Urban Village and Caste | An exploration of public transport in Bangalore |
| Localising the SDGs | Assessment of quantity and quality of historic waste disposed in one of the ULBs of Karnataka |
| Tempos, Trucks and Tech | Assessment of vulnerabilities and risk to critical infrastructure systems in Cuttack and Surat |
| Low Income Rental Housing | Chief Minister’s Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMETAC) |
| Sulikere Forest, Bengaluru | Community Perception of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS): An exploratory study in Bangalore |
| Podcast (Urban Health) | Government housing schemes in Jharkhand |
| Warehousing Project | Lakes Beyond Barriers: A Case Study of Jakkur Lake |
| PEAK Spatial Modeling and Water | Livelihoods and Nurturing Care for Women in Informal Work/Paid Domestic Work |
| Call me by my name (Karnataka Goonda Act) | Mapping the social equity effects of energy transition – A Case of BESCOM, Bengaluru |
| Across Policy and Practice: Exploring the Land Pooling Story | Memory, Identity and Deindustrialisation : Reflections from the Post-industrial Mill-scapes of Bangalore |
| PEAK Health | PEAK Project: Urban Health research stream |
| Assessing the Feasibility of the School Complex/ Consolidation Model in Urban Areas | Pedagogic resource tools and archive: Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) |
| A Study of Caste Dimensions of Peri-Urban Village Transformations in Bangalore | Portability and the accessibility of the BOCW scheme among the migrant workers |
| Digital Accounting Module for Management of Community | Rental housing for blue-collar workers |
| How do People Build their Houses in a Refugee Colony in the City of Siliguri | Rethinking off-grid cities: neighbourhood registers of food retail |
| Hungry Cities – Exploring Questions on Mobility and Governance through the Street | Rethinking off-grid cities: neighbourhood registers of infrastructure |
| Vending Act | Space, Belonging and Everyday Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) |
| Hungry Cities Project on Urban Food System and Food Security | Study of paid and unpaid care work in urban homes in the cities of Bangalore and Chennai for the International Labour Organisation. |
| Inclusive Cities Course: Planning for Activists | The Moving Museum of the City: Industrial Narratives of Bengaluru |
| Inclusive Cities Project – Urban KNOW Team | Mapping Urban Missions to Sustainable Development Goals |
