Upcoming Courses
Drawing as Cognition (World in terms of two dimensional space)
Children respond biologically to their context if not interfered with and they learn to adapt to any new cognitive environment. Naturally, children turn drawing into a cognitive activity to understand the real world in terms of two-dimensional cognitive space typical to the modern lifestyle
Beauty as Communion (Art – not as self expression)
Beauty is a dynamic configuration of appropriateness inherent in nature. We are born aligned to this configuration. For people in indigenous communities keep up this alignment organically as there is no TEACHING. But for the educated, this is totally killed and replaced by intellectual notions about art.
Play as cognition (Understanding the real world)
Play and playfulness are a complete nature given cognitive system in order to build the foundation for the creation of knowledge of the world. Playfulness ensures creativity and freedom, play enables a form of reflection by a recreation of experience and experience as the content ensures autonomy.
Past Courses
Being in Beauty
Awakening of our aesthetic awareness.
Reimagining ART.
Decolonization of our sense of beauty.
Stop Disabling Children
Relooking at Learning disorders- ADHD, ODD, OCD etc. and why most of this is a result of the conditions that adults provide for children
Drawing as cognitive tool
Drawing as a means to root oneself in the real world as well as to make the connection between the real world and the two dimensional space of books and screens
About EKF (Existential Knowledge Foundation)
Existential knowledge foundation has been set up to understand why learning is central to life, what knowledge is required to sustain life and how human beings learn naturally. The foundation has been set up naturally in response to dealing with the various damages that modern schooling has been inflicting on almost all aspects of life including the very process of learning.
The Initiative has been holding dialogues, retreats, workshops to create awareness about the true nature of learning, the need for authenticity and originality, need for creating conducive environment for the real development of children.
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Existential knowledge foundation has been set up to understand why learning is central to life, what knowledge is required to sustain life and how human beings learn naturally. The foundation has been set up naturally in response to dealing with the various damages that modern schooling has been inflicting on almost all aspects of life including the very process of learning.