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Events,
Dialogues, Workshops, Retreats
Beauty as a Biological necessity
Transform your understanding of Beauty and Life
Awakening Beauty is an invitation to see with fresh eyes — to rediscover a world of subtlety and wonder that modern life trains us to overlook.
Across cities, schools, design studios, learning communities, and quiet natural spaces, we host gatherings that open this conversation: about presence, perception, childhood, creativity, and the deep intelligence of beauty.
Through talks, book conversations, workshops, and reflective retreats, these events offer participants a chance to experience the essence of the book — not simply hear about it. They are spaces to slow down, to touch beauty directly, and to sense what becomes possible when we allow ourselves to truly see.
Upcoming Events & Workshops
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Bring the conversation to your city, workspace, or community.
You may invite the author for:
– Book launches
– Conversations and dialogues
– Talks and keynote sessions
– Workshops on beauty, perception, and learning
– Faculty or student interactions
Past events
Bangalore
BANGALORE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE
How Beauty Restores Wholeness to a Fragmented Civilization.
Jinan K.B speaks with Prem Chandavarkar about how such intuitive, sensory knowing forms naturally, and how modern education steadily distances us from it .
Online-1
Session 1 — Children and Illiterate Communities: Beauty as a Biological Faculty
When beauty is not taught, it flowers. In this opening conversation, shares how living with children and traditional artisans revealed that beauty is not an artistic skill but a natural expression of being alive.
Online-2
Session 2 — Rethinking Urban Schooling: From Instruction to Observation
Drawing from decades of work with urban schools, explores how classrooms can shift from teaching about the world to seeing the world.
Research Collaboration — Beauty as Living Intelligence
An open invitation to scholars, designers, clinicians, craftspeople, educators, and field practitioners who wish to inquire—rigorously and gently—into beauty as a form of biological and perceptual intelligence.
Focus Areas
Explorations we are actively framing
— you are welcome to add your own lens.
• Sensory ecology of attention: how environments shape perception, selectivity, and taste
• Pattern, proportion, coherence: the fitness and elegance of living systems without excess or waste
• Implicit learning in childhood: pre-literate modes of understanding, judgment, and imagination
• Craft knowledge: material sense, hand intelligence, and situated know-how
• Healing aesthetics: the relationship between beauty, regulation, and well-being
• Interiority and presence: how perception deepens when the senses are allowed to open
Ways to Engage
Choose one pathway
— or braid several together.
• Co-design a field study or studio protocol
(schools, craft clusters, community studios, therapeutic settings)
• Share practice-based notes or datasets
We reciprocate with synthesis, reflection, and documentation.
• Host a research circle or reading salon
Small, intimate groups (6–12 participants) for shared inquiry.
• Co-author working papers, briefs, or reflective notes
Bringing together lived practice and conceptual clarity.
