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Learning to question.
Room to experiment.

Workshops, lectures and learning programmes on technology, agency and creative possibility.

Selected work from Hasan’s teaching practice, now gathered under Responsible Now. Earlier sessions retain their original hosts and collaborators.

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Past sessions.

A record of learning and exchange.
These are past events, not an upcoming schedule.

Self-Driving Cars and Remote-Controlled People

A participatory workshop on AI, work and agency, exploring the difference between using technology and being shaped by it.

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Documented editions

  • Future Fantastic AI Art Festival
    Ranga Shankara, Bengaluru

  • Online, hosted by Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University

  • Khoj, Khirkee Extension

    Khoj events archive

One workshop, delivered in different settings. Dates and hosts are drawn from the teaching portfolio and CV.

Public portfolio and CV

Beware of Algorithms

BeFantastic CoLab Pivot. A fellowship session examining data privacy, persuasive algorithms and manipulated media through discussion and creative experimentation.

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A historic session, distinct from the later course outline below.

How Machines Read

BeFantastic. An artist-facing introduction to how machines work with language, followed by collaborative experiments with AI and poetry.

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· Bengaluru

The City/My City

A practical workshop at FutureFantastic, Ranga Shankara, facilitated by Hasan S. Exploring how image-generating AI works, where it falls short, and how it can help us imagine the cities we want to inhabit.

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A separate workshop from Self-Driving Cars and Remote-Controlled People.

Learning programmes.

Longer threads in the practice.
Original institutions and credits retained.

January 2010–February 2012

Cybersecurity in Hindi

Early teaching that used cybersecurity as a route into programming for Hindi-speaking students.

Self-documented teaching history

Mentorship documented from 2019

BeFantastic teaching and mentorship

Curriculum, workshops and mentorship helping artists bring creative coding, AI and physical computing into their practice. Hasan’s Team ’21 role was Creative Tech Lead & Primer Mentor.

These records describe historic cohorts, rather than uninterrupted current engagement.

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Historical project · Kota

Kalpana Innovation Lab

A learning space where girls from marginalized communities explored art, coding, robotics and making, including a documented digital safety class in 2022. The Kota lab is no longer active.

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Ideas to learn with.

Published course outlines.
Formats to explore, not confirmed future sessions.

Beware of the Algorithms

Digital Safety & Resilience in the Age of AI

Practical learning about scams, privacy, surveillance, misinformation and digital habits.

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Magic Behind the Curtain

Understanding the Secrets of AI

Hands-on AI literacy, from how machines see and learn to their limits, biases and role in society.

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