Young Creators Programme 2024
A Summer of Light, Sound, and Discovery
The summer of 2024 marked the first full Young Creators Programme at Earthlab — a few weeks after we had opened our space in Jakhan. What began as an experiment quickly turned into a deeply engaging studio experience for a group of curious young participants.
The programme was built around a simple but rich idea: exploring light and sound — not just as scientific concepts, but as ways of seeing, hearing, and understanding the world.
Learning Through Creation
At Earthlab, we believe children learn best when they are actively making.
Across the programme, students didn’t just learn about concepts — they built, tested, and experienced them. Guided by practitioners across disciplines, they worked with light through cameras and lenses, with sound through music and materials, and with ideas through writing, design, and conversation.
The focus remained on process — trying things out, making mistakes, and returning to improve.
What Emerged
What stood out was not just the range of work, but how children approached it.
They became more willing to experiment. They moved between disciplines with ease.
They began to connect ideas — between science and art, sound and story, observation and expression.
In the Studio
Working Across Labs
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SCIENCE
In science sessions led by Clifford Prince, children explored light and sound waves through hands-on experiments — building paper speakers, working with lenses, and observing how sound and light behave in different environments.
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STORYTELLING
Storytelling sessions led by M. H. Farooqui helped students shape ideas into narratives through reading, writing, and discussion.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
In photography, guided by Mrinal Bahukhandi, they built camera obscura, created pinhole cameras, and experimented with cyanotype printing — using sunlight as both tool and subject.
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MUSIC
Sound and music sessions, led by Yash Nath Jha, Prashant Nawani, Sarthak Uniyal, and Bharat, took this further. Students wrote lyrics, explored rhythm and melody, and worked with sound production — eventually creating their own compositions.
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MEDIA
In media, under the guidance of Naved Farooqui, they developed podcasts from scratch — choosing topics, structuring ideas, recording, and editing their work.
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NATURE
With Ayaz Hakim, students spent time observing and engaging with nature — from trip to FRI museums, to field visits learning directly from their surroundings. These moments grounded the more abstract work in lived experience.