Sep 05 2026 to Sep 05 2026 2 p.m.

Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

Death is the moment where the question of plural worlds becomes most personal. Every culture has answered it differently. Some say you move to another world, some say you dissolve back into this one and some say you join a world of ancestors running alongside the living. There are lots of different understandings of what the world is, who inhabits it, and what it means to leave it.

Most of us have inherited rituals for death without choosing them. And most of those rituals were designed only for humans. This workshop asks: what if we designed them ourselves for every world, every species, every relationship that ends? 

Using a ritual design framework created by Lagori Collective, participants will be invited to sit with death as a transition between worlds and to begin designing the ritual that would mark that crossing on their own terms.

This event is part of Plural Worlds, developed in collaboration with Lagori Collective and presented in conjunction with Beneath the Turning Sky.

Lagori Collective
Lagori Collective is an experimental research and design studio based in India, working to expand conditions under which multiple futures remain possible in South Asia. Lagori works across participatory research, futures, systems strategy and cultural practice to help organisations navigate complex transitions and emerging challenges. Through their South Asian Futures Lab, they develop futures practices that draw on the region’s own knowledge, cultural practices and lived experience while staying in conversation with broader global questions.

Lagori has partnered with a wide range of organisations including philanthropic foundations, international cultural institutions, global companies, and development agencies such as the Gates Foundation, Studio D Radiodurans, Ford Foundation, Goethe-Institut, British Council, YouTube Culture Lab, Amazon, Google, USAID and International Committee of the Red Cross among others.

Lagori also serve as an Index Node, part of a global network of non-extractive third spaces with a community space based in Cooke Town, Bangalore.