The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.
India’s urbanisation is the second largest rural to urban transition in human history. By the middle of the century, at least 800 million Indians will live in cities and they will constitute more than half of India’s population.
In an urban century, this is a timely realisation for India and the world. Yet, two core challenges stand in the way of this urban transformation.
- A new generation of interdisciplinary urban practitioners, innovators and scholars and who have the right knowledge, skills and perspectives to tackle the problems of 21st century urbanisation, via cutting-edge practice, teaching and globally benchmarked research; and
- New knowledge that they can use to find solutions to these apparently intractable challenges; and adapt, scale and replicate them across a nation of over 1.4 billion people, transforming the everyday lives of people and the economy, society and the environment, as we know it today.
IIHS will establish a national level institution of international eminence to address the above issues. IIHS began with a three-year-long process that brought together global and international partners to create a globally-benchmarked, future-oriented, interdisciplinary curriculum for this proposed new degree. This Curriculum sits across IIHS’ five interdisciplinary schools, its proposed Doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes, as well as the current nine-month, full-time, taught certificate fellowship, the Urban Fellows Programme.
The proposed IIHS Institution of Eminence (IOE) is premised on this need to transform the current nature of urban education as one of the most important drivers for India’s national development and sustainable global futures.
Cutting across these Schools are the proposed IIHS IOE’s four core Programmes:
- Academics (Urban Fellows Prog
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The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.
India’s urbanisation is the second largest rural to urban transition in human history. By the middle of the century, at least 800 million Indians will live in cities and they will constitute more than half of India’s population.
In an urban century, this is a timely realisation for India and the world. Yet, two core challenges stand in the way of this urban transformation.
- A new generation of interdisciplinary urban practitioners, innovators and scholars and who have the right knowledge, skills and perspectives to tackle the problems of 21st century urbanisation, via cutting-edge practice, teaching and globally benchmarked research; and
- New knowledge that they can use to find solutions to these apparently intractable challenges; and adapt, scale and replicate them across a nation of over 1.4 billion people, transforming the everyday lives of people and the economy, society and the environment, as we know it today.
IIHS will establish a national level institution of international eminence to address the above issues. IIHS began with a three-year-long process that brought together global and international partners to create a globally-benchmarked, future-oriented, interdisciplinary curriculum for this proposed new degree. This Curriculum sits across IIHS’ five interdisciplinary schools, its proposed Doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes, as well as the current nine-month, full-time, taught certificate fellowship, the Urban Fellows Programme.
The proposed IIHS Institution of Eminence (IOE) is premised on this need to transform the current nature of urban education as one of the most important drivers for India’s national development and sustainable global futures.
Cutting across these Schools are the proposed IIHS IOE’s four core Programmes:
- Academics (Urban Fellows Programme)
- Research
- Practice
- Capacity Building
IIHS is a Section 8 not-for-profit company under the Indian Companies Act, incorporated to establish the proposed IIHS University. The IIHS has been brought into existence, nurtured and led by a group of eminent Indians from all walks of life, who are signatories to its Memorandum of Association. Many of these individuals have made generous contributions to the initial IIHS corpus.
Campuses
- IIHS IOE Main Campus, Kengeri
- IIHS Bengaluru City Campus, Sadashivanagar
- IIHS Chennai
- IIHS Delhi
- IIHS Mumbai
About the Urban Fellows Programme
The UFP is a scholarship-based, ten-month, full-time, residential, inter-disciplinary fellowship based at the IIHS City Campus in Bengaluru. It seeks to combine classroom-based teaching, site-based applied learning, work in live projects, and external internships to introduce the Fellows to diverse forms of urban practice. It is open to recent graduates and young professionals from varied educational backgrounds or practice domains.
It will include a 8 month classroom- based learning period at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus, followed by a 2- month internship. Fellows will intern at organisations working on different aspects of urban change and development, such as public sector organisations, private consulting organisations, NGOs, think- tanks, community organisations, etc.
