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South Asian languages Scripts
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Close-up of a person rowing a boat on a body of water, with part of the boat and oar visible.
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Rehearsing
futures for systems
in transitions

Lagori Collective is an experimental research and design studio. We work to expand conditions under which multiple futures remain possible.

Cultural practice extends our work into shared spaces. Through workshops, exhibitions, storytelling, and programming, we create formats that invite people into the process. These engagements translate research and futures into collective experiences, opening up space for provocation, participation, and new forms of dialogue.

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Close-up of a person rowing a boat on a body of water, with part of the boat and oar visible.

What We Do

DESIGN RESEARCH 
& FIELD EXPLORATION
CULTURAL PRACTICE & ENGAGEMENT

We approach futures as a practice grounded in place. Our work looks at how change is unfolding across specific contexts, and creates the conditions to imagine, shape, and rehearse multiple, preferred futures. This includes finding direction in uncertainty, and developing strategies and prototypes that can be explored, tested, and taken forward in practice.

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Close-up of a person rowing a boat on a body of water, with part of the boat and oar visible.

Grounded, qualitative and participatory research sits at the core of our work. It is field-led, shaped through immersion, conversations, co-design, and landscape inquiry. We focus on understanding how people, markets, and systems are shifting in lived contexts, and surfacing insights that hold.

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Close-up of a person rowing a boat on a body of water, with part of the boat and oar visible. 
FUTURES & STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
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Close-up black and white photo of tall, thin grass or reeds with some fallen leaves or debris in the background.
WORK WITH US
WORK WITH US
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Projects

Programme poster for Heat Futures at 78 E, a collaborative urban heat futures adaptation project by Lagori Collective and British Council, connecting Bengaluru (BLR) and Colombo (CMB). Features a kingfisher in heat toned blue and orange.

Heat Futures at 78°E
with British Council & Good Life X

Reimagining
responses to
urban heat

Lagori Collective researchers walking through a residential neighbourhood in India during field research for a project on cultural representation in AI image generation, in collaboration with Google and YouTube.

Responsible AI
with Google, Youtube and Studio Into

Equitable representation
in AI

Programme identity graphic of Playgrounds of Power, a research and dialogue initiative by Lagori Collective and Goethe-Institut exploring gender equity in India's digital gaming industry. Title text in pixelated green font on a cream background with

Playgrounds of Power
with Goethe Institut

The future of gender and digital game making in India

Brokpa women from the Monpa community in Arunachal Pradesh spinning yak wool during field research for a futures governance project with Lagori Collective and It's All Folk, exploring traditional craft knowledge and collective stewardship.
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Close-up view of a textured gray stone surface.

Norbu Governance Futures
With It’s All Folk

A governance lab rooted in Monpa practices

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Close-up black and white photo of tall, thin grass or reeds with some fallen leaves or debris in the background.
MORE PROJECTS
MORE PROJECTS

Gates Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

International Committee of Red Cross

Helen Keller International

Ford Foundation

Gates Foundation Rockefeller Foundation International Committee of Red Cross Helen Keller International Ford Foundation

Studio intO

Studio Radioduran D

Smart Design

Hemas

Youtube

IBM

Amazon

Mathematica

Proportion Global

Studio intO Studio Radioduran D Smart Design Hemas Youtube IBM Amazon Mathematica Proportion Global

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

British Council

Goethe-Institut

Socratus

Its All Folk

Parsons School of Design

Royal College of Art

Northumbria University

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) British Council Goethe-Institut Socratus Its All Folk Parsons School of Design Royal College of Art Northumbria University

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Close-up view of a textured gray stone surface.
Close-up view of a textured gray stone surface.
Close-up view of a textured gray stone surface.

An independent space for inquiry, writing, and experimentation from within South Asia. This is where we work through how futures are imagined, shaped, and rehearsed in context.

Animated loop of people moving barefoot in warm-toned light, evoking rehearsal and collective practice, used as a visual introduction to the South Asian Futures Lab at Lagori Collective.

South Asian
Futures Lab

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Close-up of tall dry grass and leaves in black and white.
More about Futures lab
More about Futures lab

Community Space

A cooperative-based workspace in Bengaluru, shaped and sustained by its community. An ongoing experiment in shared space, and part of Index, a global network of non-extractive spaces.

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Close-up of tall grass or reeds with a mix of light and dark shades in a black and white photograph.
More about the Community
More about the Community
Practitioners gathered for a workshop session at Lagori Collective's cooperative community workspace in Bengaluru, with some working at tables and others in conversation across the room.