DATE: Sunday, 23rd August 2026
TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM IST
VENUE: Amra Circle – Early Learning Center, Gandipet, Hyderabad
The Campfire community meetup for Architects and Educators, moves to Hyderabad for its second edition after having its Inaugural edition in Indore.
On 23 August 2026, Campfire will gather 40 exclusive attendees at the ‘Amra Circle – Early Learning Center, Gandipet, Hyderabad’, for two hours of intimate dialogue, exploration, and exchange.
The central question is simple, but consequential:
How does the environment around us shape the way we learn, grow, connect, and experience the world?
The Open dialogue will focus on this theme: “The Relationship Between Learning & Environment“
To explore it, we bring two very different-and equally valuable-perspectives to the same table.
MEET THE FACILITATORS
Dr. Seetha Murty
Director of Education, Silver Oaks International Schools
President, IB Heads Association, India & South Asia
With over 35 years in education, Dr. Seetha is a prominent Indian educationist who serves as the Director of Education at Silver Oaks International Schools, overseeing campuses across Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Visakhapatnam. Often describing herself as an “accidental educator” turned “Principal Learner”, she has spent her career thinking about curriculum, pedagogy, values, and the evolving needs of learners. Her perspective brings the lived reality of education into the conversation.
Ar. Saagar Tulshan
Architect & Designer | Partner & Co-founder, KUN Studio
Through Polymath Studio, KUN Studio, and The Open Box Project, Saagar explores how design can influence the way people inhabit, experience, and learn from spaces. His work at Amra offers a particularly relevant lens into play-based and experiential early learning environments.
A significant strand of Saagar’s practice focuses on learning environments. His work includes Amra, an early learning centre conceived as an environment for play-based and experiential learning and the ongoing Swayamkrushi Campus, a residential and learning environment being designed around the needs of women on the autism spectrum, bringing together housing, education, skill development and community spaces.
Put these two perspectives together, and an important question emerges:
Can we design environments that don’t simply accommodate learning—but actively enable it?
A Morning of Conversation & Discovery
The experience begins with a guided exploration of Amra Circle, assisted by Ms. Deeksha Koilakonda and followed by an open dialogue designed not for passive listening, but for shared thinking.
SCHEDULE
10:00 AM: Arrive. Connect. Settle In.
10:10 AM: Explore Amra Circle Guided Tour with Ms. Deeksha Koilakonda
10:25 AM: Join the Open Dialogue
Educators x Architects
Facilitated by Dr. Seetha Murty & Ar. Saagar Tulshan
11:50 AM: Pause. Reflect. Take away.
12:00 PM: Session Concludes. Campfire Moves, Community Grows.
Why Campfire?
Because learning environments cannot be understood through one discipline alone.
Campfire creates the space for educators, architects, designers, researchers, and changemakers to exchange perspectives, challenge assumptions, and discover new ways of thinking about the environments where learning happens.
PLEASE NOTE: Seats are intentionally limited.
Campfire is intentionally intimate because meaningful conversations need room to breathe.
This is not about filling a room. It is about bringing the right people, perspectives, and questions together.
Indore lit the first spark. Hyderabad carries it forward.
And there will be more- more cities, more circles, and more conversations designed to challenge how we think about learning spaces.
The fire moves. The community grows. The conversation continues.