What if students could spend their weekends tackling real-world challenges instead of completing worksheets? What if learning looked more like a design studio than a classroom?
This fall, that vision becomes a reality in Mumbai as NuVu and Taqsha, an initiative of The Times of India, launch a first-of-its-kind collaboration designed to bring studio-based learning to students across the city.
Together, the two organizations are creating a new destination where young people can explore emerging technologies, design meaningful solutions to real problems, and develop the creative confidence that will guide them into the future.
For more than 16 years, NuVu has pioneered a unique educational model that replaces traditional classes with immersive design studios. Students collaborate in multidisciplinary teams, working alongside coaches to investigate authentic challenges, develop ideas, build prototypes, and present their work to real audiences.
Through its partnership with Taqsha, this internationally recognized approach is now being adapted for students in India.
"Taqsha shares our belief that creativity is not an extracurricular activity—it's an essential skill for every student," said Saba Ghole, Co-Founder of NuVu. "Together, we're creating a place where students can discover what they're capable of when they're given meaningful problems, expert mentorship, and the freedom to create."
Launching this year, Taqsha will offer students in Grades 7–12 an opportunity to participate in immersive studios designed by NuVu through an 8-week long weekend program that will run on Saturdays and Sundays starting in early October.
Rather than following a traditional lecture format, students will work through the complete innovation process—researching challenges, generating ideas, building prototypes, testing solutions, and communicating their work through presentations and digital portfolios.
In Mumbai, the program will launch with two studios - Collaborative Futures and Urban Utopia. Each studio combines creativity with emerging technologies, helping students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creative problem-solving while exploring fields that are shaping the future.
Collaborative Futures is a speculative film studio in which students will envision the future impact of AI on different facets of life, such as health care, societal roles, and human creativity, as well as the potential conflicts that may arise from these technologies.
Urban Utopia is an urban planning studio in which students will investigate how urban planning can create healthier, more resilient, and more sustainable communities. They will research then design and build their own master plan for the redevelopment of a city block, using innovative circular systems.
Whether reimagining our world with artificial intelligence or designing more sustainable cities, students will leave with tangible projects and a portfolio that reflects both their thinking and their process.
The launch represents more than the opening of a new educational offering—it marks the beginning of a long-term effort to expand access to creative, interdisciplinary learning experiences across India.
As schools around the world rethink how they prepare students for an AI-driven future, NuVu and Taqsha believe that success will depend not only on technical knowledge, but on the distinctly human abilities to imagine, collaborate, communicate, and create deeply rooted local solutions.
By giving students the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges with expert mentors and like-minded peers, the partnership aims to cultivate the next generation of youth to imagine a different world.
The first studios will welcome students this October, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter for creative education in Mumbai—and a significant milestone in NuVu's growing global community of innovative learning partners.
