Practices

Through Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education several members of DLG are working with kids clubs, learning collectives and school groups to further Ankur’s established listening based practices for building collective and self-learning contexts. We use a constantly evolving repertoire of individual and dialogic listening practices as part of a broader programme to connect school-learning…

We explore existing structures, media forms as potential vectors for shared listening and public dialogue about sound listening and the city. Our approach to public structures and interventions hinges on detailed understanding of existing networks, rhythms and social dynamics of a given space. We adapt the existing structures and forms via low cost d.i.y. audio…

The question of how to write through the practice of listening, rather than simply writing ‘about’ listening and sound has been an ongoing interest. We take the physical work of listening and organising ones attention as a starting point for composition; and experiment with durational and situated writing in different parts of the city. Everyone…

Shared listening is at the heart of all our practices. We listen to the city, to many people and places; but we also listen to each other as well as in solitude. The Delhi Listening Group ‘mehfil’ provides each of us a collective space where ideas, processes and texts will be carefully listened to and…