Imagine there is no curriculum; only curiosity driving the learning. Imagine there is no preset route; only exploration charting the course. Put those almost-Lennonesque ideas together and you get a programme that encourages children to explore nature and coax materials out of it to make natural paints and gum and create foraged art. As should be evident to anyone, this programme militates against the assembly line. There is no telling what natural colour would be turned out; the consistency with which the gum would trickle; or the shape the artwork from foraged items would take. All of these would take you to the doorsteps of a rather unusual (but not unlikely) world Juwairiya H has created for children. Moored in Royapuram, Juwairiya (a Montessori-trained teacher, Zentangle artist and biotechnology graduate) conducts this programme in person as well as remotely.
But first things first.
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