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LILA Call for Collaborations - 2015

LILA draws from the In­dian word for ‘play’, and un­der­stands human hap­pi­ness as a lu­mi­nous con­tin­uum of cre­ativ­ity; a translo­cal en­gage­ment with one’s con­text. To­wards such ap­pre­ci­a­tion of life ac­ces­si­ble to every in­di­vid­ual and com­mu­nity, we, at LILA Foun­da­tion for Translo­cal Ini­tia­tives, en­vi­sion, ex­pe­ri­ence, share and con­serve our en­ter­prise as:

  1. An ideation space for mak­ing hap­pi­ness ac­ces­si­ble to all
  2. A pub­lic in­ter­face and trans­for­ma­c­tion plat­form
  3. An or­gan­i­sa­tion founded on hu­mane translo­cal­ity
  4. A re­search cen­tre en­gaged with the in­for­ma­tion-knowl­edge-wis­dom con­tin­uum
  5. An in­sti­tu­tion of cre­ative en­ter­prises fa­cil­i­tat­ing con­tin­u­ous cul­tural pro­duc­tion
  6. A sanc­tu­ary of life ap­pre­ci­a­tion to cre­ate a hor­i­zon­tal con­nec­tive of eq­uity
  7. A multi-cen­tred con­ser­va­tory for com­mu­nity mak­ing.

Invit­ing Part­ner­ships for Ex­ist­ing Pro­jects

LILA’s di­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are ori­ented to­wards the ac­tu­al­i­sa­tion of a vi­sion for a world­wide thought-trans­for­ma­c­tion-con­ser­va­tion pro­ject. Since Au­gust 2013, we have been or­gan­is­ing pro­grammes and brin­ing out reg­u­lar on­line pub­li­ca­tions with a view to en­gage a va­ri­ety of peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions in this en­deav­our. Through two years of work in ideation, re­search, pub­li­ca­tion and pro­gram­ming, LILA has carved a space for it­self in the coun­try’s knowl­edgescape. Now, as we enter our sec­ond phase of ‘trans­for­ma­c­tion’, we in­vite mean­ing­ful col­lab­o­ra­tions from in­di­vid­u­als, or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­sti­tu­tions to con­tribute to our al­ready ex­ist­ing work, as well as to im­ple­ment our newly de­signed pro­jects for eq­uity.

Pro­grammes

1. LILA PRISM An­nual the­matic Lec­ture Se­ries:

Every year from Au­gust to De­cem­ber we or­gan­ise a the­matic lec­ture se­ries that fea­tures sem­i­nal thinkers from a va­ri­ety of dis­ci­plines in col­lab­o­ra­tion with major cul­tural stake­hold­ers. LILA PRISM 2015 will be on the theme ‘Gov­er­nance as Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion’.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Re­source peo­ple and Spe­cial­ists for ‘Gov­er­nance’ in var­i­ous fields; In­sti­tu­tions as Venue and Event part­ners; Media Part­ners; Vol­un­teers who can help in pub­lic­ity and so­cial media, print and elec­tronic press cov­er­age; Book Pub­lish­ers.

2. LILA Spe­cial Lec­tures

We or­gan­ise reg­u­lar spe­cial lec­tures on var­i­ous top­ics, by em­i­nent in­ter­na­tional ex­perts whose work would con­tribute to our un­der­stand­ing of gov­er­nance and hu­mane translo­cal­ity.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: In­no­v­a­tive thinkers in var­i­ous fields; In­sti­tu­tions as Venue and Event part­ners; Media Part­ners; Vol­un­teers who can help in pub­lic­ity and so­cial media, and print and elec­tronic press cov­er­age; Book Pub­lish­ers.

3. LILA Lu­mieres

Ini­tially con­cep­tu­alised as our plat­form for film screen­ing, dis­cus­sion and re­lated events, LILA Lu­mieres has now be­come LILA’s video pro­duc­tion ban­ner.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: In­sti­tu­tions and in­di­vid­ual vol­un­teers who can help in var­i­ous stages of video pro­duc­tion.

4. LILA Bear­ing Wit­ness

This cul­tural ban­ner of LILA is the tes­ta­ment of our faith in the power of cul­tural ex­pres­sions to be­come peace-mak­ing func­tionar­ies. We bring to­gether var­i­ous cul­tural prac­ti­tion­ers—mu­si­cians, dancers, film­mak­ers, writ­ers, philoso­phers, vi­sual artists—under this ban­ner so that the func­tion and role of the arts be­yond the aes­thetic may be ex­plored.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Artists and writ­ers to sub­mit new themes and de­signs for pro­grammes; In­sti­tu­tions as Venue and Event part­ners; Media Part­ners; Vol­un­teers who can help in pub­lic­ity and so­cial media, and print and elec­tronic press cov­er­age.

Pub­li­ca­tions

1. LILA In­ter-ac­tions

LILA In­ter-ac­tions is our weekly on­line medium for translo­cal di­a­logues. Every Fri­day, two field lead­ers bridge dis­ci­plines and com­mu­ni­ties in a tex­tual re­flec­tion on cur­rent af­fairs and cul­ture.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Re­flec­tive writ­ers and ex­perts on var­i­ous top­i­cal is­sues, media spaces in­ter­ested in re-pub­lish­ing the ar­ti­cles, vol­un­teers for pub­lic­ity and so­cial media.

2. LILA Para­pluie

LILA Para­pluie is an um­brella blog, mul­ti­cul­tural and mul­ti­lin­gual in its ex­pres­sion. LILA writ­ers, guests, in­terns and com­mit­ted friends write here to­wards es­tab­lish­ing the re­flec­tive and philo­soph­i­cal moor­ings of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Vol­un­teers for pub­lic­ity & so­cial media; Vol­un­teers for trans­la­tion.

Invit­ing Part­ner­ships for New Pro­jects (2015-16)

To­wards our trans­for­ma­c­tion ini­tia­tives in 2015, LILA has de­signed a new plat­form to cre­ate a world-wide gov­er­nance con­nec­tive en­abling in­di­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties to spon­ta­neously ac­cess their hap­pi­ness by find­ing a sus­tain­able means for eq­ui­table liv­ing. This has stemmed from our un­der­stand­ing of the cul­tural as the most sig­nif­i­cant marker of the hu­man­ity’s civil­i­sa­tional shift to­wards set­tle­ment (be­com­ing ‘urban’). Thus, in a cre­ative re­sponse to the dis­as­trous im­pact of the many mind­less de­vel­op­ment nar­ra­tives and city plan­ning pro­jects of our times, LILA Terra-Su­tra pro­poses a mode of or­ganic ur­ban­i­sa­tion, which in­vests it­self in dis­cov­er­ing, nur­tur­ing, cel­e­brat­ing, dis­trib­ut­ing, re­new­ing and con­serv­ing re­sources in var­i­ous fields of knowl­edge and cre­ativ­ity, so that the pos­si­bil­ity of eq­ui­table and eco­log­i­cal liv­ing be­comes ap­par­ent and in­te­gral to every human being. It ap­proaches the im­mense task at hand in a phased out man­ner, choos­ing to de­velop three sites man­i­fest­ing the Lu­mi­nous Idea of Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion in each phase, and grad­u­ally scal­ing up to cre­ate a world-wide con­nec­tive.

1. LILA Terra-Su­tra Sanc­tu­ar­ies of Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion

LILA Terra-Su­tra will be worked out through a set of Sanc­tu­ar­ies of Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion built in var­i­ous parts of the world in col­lab­o­ra­tion with local cul­tural stake­hold­ers. The Sanc­tu­ar­ies in a par­tic­u­lar coun­try func­tion as in­ter­con­nected local hubs of cre­ativ­ity, mak­ing op­ti­mum use of com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy to­wards ini­ti­at­ing in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary pro­jects for eq­uity.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from:

  1. Like-minded in­sti­tu­tions and co­or­di­na­tors from var­i­ous parts of the world to set up the Sanc­tu­ar­ies of Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion
  2. In India, Terra-Su­tra will be op­er­a­tionalised through the re­gional wing, LILA In­dia-Su­tra, which be­gins work in Jan 2-15 in the field of the Arts. We are con­sid­er­ing col­lab­o­ra­tions with artists, de­sign­ers, cul­tural and ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions, com­mu­nity cen­tres and local gov­er­nance bod­ies, tech­ni­cal ex­perts, var­i­ous media, pri­vate homes and other spaces as ex­hi­bi­tion sites, in order to
  • Or­gan­ise men­tor­ing pro­grammes for artists, young as well as in­dige­nous/folk, to evolve under ex­pert guid­ance
  • Pro­duce, cu­rate, ex­hibit, mar­ket, auc­tion, sell and archive works of art
  • De­velop a sus­tained au­di­ence for her­itage arts to fos­ter sen­si­ti­sa­tion about the mul­ti­plic­ity of cul­tural forms and prac­tices of India.
  • Build an ac­ces­si­ble data­base of ref­er­ence works, glos­saries, dic­tio­nar­ies, doc­u­men­taries, en­cy­clopae­dia, craft lex­i­cons, etc.
  • Doc­u­ment art prac­tices in India, and the his­tor­i­cal move­ments in art and per­for­mance, to fa­cil­i­tate the de­vel­op­ment of a new aes­thet­ics.
  • Pub­lish on the­o­ret­i­cal as well as prac­ti­cal as­pects of art.
  • Cre­ate or­ganic and vi­brant archive of the arts in the Sanc­tu­ar­ies
  • Pro­duce func­tional col­lat­er­als and brand and mar­ket them
  1. As we en­gage more deeply in knowl­edge pro­duc­tion dur­ing 2015-16, we in­vite aca­d­e­mic and cul­tural in­si­ti­tu­tions, pub­lish­ers, re­searchers, writ­ers, and tech­ni­cal ex­perts to­wards
  • The de­vel­op­ment of our phi­los­o­phy forum LILA Menso through reg­u­lar work­shops, sym­posia, and other events fa­cil­i­at­ing the de­moc­ra­ti­sa­tion of phi­los­o­phy and re­flec­tive think­ing
  • The cre­ation of an on­line knowl­edge media ded­i­cated to the pur­suit of knowl­edge, fea­tur­ing in­sight­ful acts and ac­tors from var­i­ous fields
  • To co-pub­lish and dis­trib­ute the ed­i­to­r­ial con­tent of our re­flec­tive and cul­tural en­gage­ments and so­cio-po­lit­i­cal find­ings to­wards evolv­ing a rel­e­vant and adapt­able gov­er­nance method­ol­ogy.

2. LILA Terra-Su­tra Cam­pus-Links

LILA Terra-Su­tra Cam­pus-Links is our ef­fort to de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cally link learn­ing spaces across the world. At LILA, we be­lieve that learn­ing can­not hap­pen through tab­u­lar or­gan­i­sa­tions. Cam­puses should there­fore be open spaces where learn­ers could apply their knowl­edge in trans­for­ma­tive ways, and be­come change agents. The Sanc­tu­ar­ies for Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion would grad­u­ally be­come the or­gan­i­sa­tional cen­tres for the Cam­pus-Links chap­ters in a lo­cal­ity.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Stu­dent and fac­ulty co­or­di­na­tors in var­i­ous in­sti­tu­tions, re­searchers and so­cial ac­tivists who are work­ing in var­i­ous areas of com­mu­nity de­vel­op­ment to set up Cam­pus-Links chap­ters in var­i­ous parts of India and abroad.

3. LILA Terra-Su­tra Or­ganic Cities

LILA Terra-Su­tra has un­der­taken to ideate, re­search, and act on the ‘city’ to re­dis­cover ur­ban­ity as hap­pi­ness. This has re­sulted in the con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tion of the Terra-Su­tra Or­ganic Cities.

Invit­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tions from: Like-minded in­sti­tu­tions, re­searchers, thinkers, gov­ern­men­tal bod­ies from var­i­ous parts of the world to ac­tu­alise a set of grad­u­ally evolv­ing, cre­atively in­ter-con­nected Or­ganic Cities priv­i­leg­ing Life Ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

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