IB Diploma Programme: DP 1
Global Context: Orientation in Space and Time • Globalization and Sustainability
Age Group: 16 to 17 years
Duration: Full-Day Experiential Academic Immersion
Venue: Shravanabelagola • Halebidu • Belur or Yagachi
Learning Approach: Inquiry-driven • Analytical • Comparative • Evidence-based
Sacred Structures as Strategic Systems is an advanced academic immersion where DP 1 students investigate how architecture functions as political messaging, religious philosophy, artistic mastery, and environmental engineering.
Students move beyond observation into interpretation, comparison, evaluation, and defense of arguments. Each site becomes a live case study where learners must gather evidence, decode symbolism, test assumptions, and defend conclusions using disciplinary vocabulary.
The day is structured as a field-based investigation requiring analytical precision, intellectual risk-taking, and comparative reasoning.
Power • Belief • Representation • Sustainability • Authority • Cultural Memory
Students strengthen:
· Thinking Skills: critical analysis, evaluation, synthesis, systems thinking
· Research Skills: field documentation, visual evidence collection, source correlation
· Communication Skills: structured argumentation, academic dialogue, evidence defense
· Self-Management Skills: intellectual discipline, focus, time regulation
· Social Skills: collaborative reasoning, respectful challenge
Students will:
· interrogate monuments as instruments of ideology
· compare religious and political symbolism across traditions
· analyse architectural design as both narrative and system
· evaluate sustainability embedded within sacred infrastructure
· defend interpretations using field evidence
Students will be able to:
· construct comparative arguments using primary observation
· decode iconography using historical vocabulary
· evaluate political authority expressed through monumentality
· assess temple ecosystems as early socio-environmental systems
· formulate a TOK-style knowledge question grounded in evidence
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