Academic Programme

The primary objectives of IIHS are to create for human settlements professionals, practitioners and researchers from India and others parts of the world:

• An interdisciplinary, innovation-oriented knowledge base that covers the transformatory opportunities and challenges of the South Asian and international settlements in the 21st century.
• A quality, application-oriented and experiential learning environment that reaches out, through and beyond its open campus, to India and other parts of the world.
• A set of opportunities for inclusion, integrated human development and engagement with Indian Constitutional values.
• Opportunities to
  • evolve the technical, integrative and theoretical capacities to design, develop and use the most appropriate technologies, infrastructure and management systems from around the world;
  • assist in engendering technical, institutional and social innovation, sustainability and good governance;
  • respond to contemporary and emerging challenges drawing on both disciplinary and indigenous knowledge;
  • to serve as a platform for dialogue between the state, private and civil society sectors and citizens, especially the most vulnerable;
  • be uniquely rooted in South Asian culture, arts and craft, languages and scholarship and thereby set global standards for praxis, education and research.
  • develop avenues for the deepening of the pedagogical and reflective capacities of the faculty to transact an integrated, interdisciplinary programme to meet these transformative goals.

The MUP curriculum has been designed to reflect IIHS’ engagement with urbanisation and its interdisciplinary approach to problem solving. Consequently, this learner-centric programme focuses on enabling the integral development of learners, i.e. educating empowered agents who can engage critically and constructively with complex real world concerns. It aims to impart appropriate skills, understanding, knowledge and critical perspectives; their application to multidisciplinary and multi-level problem solving, innovation and reflective praxis; alongside a commitment to excellence, core ethical principles and broad Indian Constitutional values.