The IIHS Urban Fellows Programme (UFP) | 2024-25
India’s urban transition is unprecedented in scale and complexity. Within it lie both, the opportunities of economic development and greater employment as well as the challenges of persistent inequality, extreme deprivation and environmental degradation. The UFP offers the chance to be a part of shaping this transition.
UFP is scholarship-based, nine-month, full-time, residential, interdisciplinary and based at the IIHS City Campus in Bengaluru. It combines classroom teaching, site-based applied learning, work in live projects, and external internships to introduce Fellows to diverse forms of urban practice. The Programme is open to recent graduates and young professionals from varied educational backgrounds or practice domains. The eighth batch of UFP will graduate in 2024.
Why be an Urban Fellow?
Click the videos below to learn about why you should be an Urban Fellow, the interdisciplinary journeys that Fellows take, and understand the structure of the academic programme.
Why be an Urban Fellow?
Interdisciplinarity
Structure of the UFP
Our Fellows
Click next on the images below for a detailed look at the interdisciplinary transitions that Fellows take across disciplines and sectors, and to see where our Fellows have gone on to work and study, both in India and globally.
Interdisciplinary curriculum
The IIHS Urban Fellows Programme combines classroom teaching, site-based applied learning as well as work in live projects, and external internships to introduce Fellows to diverse forms of urban practice.
Acquire interdisciplinary knowledge
Develop skills for real-life problems
Experience cities anew
Learning by doing
The IIHS Core curriculum is a set of learning experiences, interactions and credit courses, grounded in experiential, local and traditional knowledge.
These help build a set of capacities and sensibilities in the learner, that help them take responsibility for their own personal as well as professional development beyond the classroom.
