Media Lab
Engaging with urban questions through digital media practices.
About
The IIHS Media Lab anchors digital media research, production, teaching, and capacity development at IIHS.
The Lab engages with urban questions in India and the Global South through films, photography, podcasts, and other digital media forms. Through these practices, it creates new ways of capturing and communicating tacit knowledge of urban cultures and everyday experiences. Over the years, the Lab has collaborated with academics and urban practitioners to build an audiovisual archive documenting interdisciplinary perspectives on urban transformation.
Impact
Areas of Work
The Lab explores urban questions through digital audiovisual media, photography, and sound. It produces films for IIHS’ projects and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), generating new ways of understanding diverse urban themes.
Audiovisual Production
The Lab produces films and other audiovisual content that communicates IIHS' work to varied audiences. This includes institutional and project-based films, MOOCs developed with the IIHS Digital Blended Learning programme, as well as documentaries, promotional videos, learning materials, podcasts, and photo exhibitions and essays.
Documentation and Archiving
The Lab documents and archives events, projects, and institutional activities at IIHS. It also contributes to a series of books on the IIHS, Kengeri Campus, and regularly records the Campus’s development and biodiversity through photography and film. Visit our archive of videos on our YouTube channel.
EVENTS
Urban Lens Film Festival
The IIHS Urban Lens film festival explores diverse ways in which filmmakers and artists engage with the urban through multiple media practices. A curated selection of fiction, non-fiction and animation films brings out the granularity of the urban experience and teases out individual and collective stories and experiences of people from around the world.
The festival creates a space for reflection and dialogue on cinema and urban life through screenings and discussions with filmmakers, researchers, students, and the public.
Screens
The Lab hosts monthly film screenings at IIHS, Sadashivanagar, each followed by conversations with the filmmakers. The series features independent, award-winning, regional, and popular films exploring themes of urban life, opening up discussions on cinema and the city, as well as the craft of filmmaking.
IIHS SCREENS
The Lab hosts monthly film screenings at IIHS, Sadashivanagar, each followed by conversations with the filmmakers. The series features independent, award-winning, regional, and popular films exploring themes of urban life, opening up discussions on cinema and the city, as well as the craft of filmmaking.