Young Creators Programme – Yaksha 2025

At EarthLab Club this June, waste turned into wonder and creativity took shape — quite literally. The Set Building Workshop & Exhibit Production Lab is one of Yaksha 2025’s most hands-on experiences, a raw, real, and joyful journey where children built an immersive forest exhibit from scratch.

Over the course of the set building workshop, children rolled up their sleeves to work with paper, paint, masking tape, wires, cardboard, plastic bottles, old electronics, even bicycle pedals — transforming everyday materials into a forest-world fit for myth. Led by multidisciplinary designer and curator Pratiksha Chauhan, this  exhibit production lab brought together art, sustainability, and spatial storytelling in the most tangible way. This is where hands get dirty, ideas take form, and set design becomes a celebration of resourcefulness, imagination, and teamwork.

What Participants Will Explore:
Creative Set-Building

• Build forest-inspired mountains, leaves, rivers, and props using cardboard, cloth, and POP in the Exhibit Production lab.
• Paint, tear, glue, mask, and layer recycled materials into immersive environmental elements
• Construct exhibit features like sculptural trees, bulldozers, and keepers’ elements in the Set Building workshop.

Waste-to-Art Installations

• Discover how to reuse objects like old cameras and mobiles, cans, paper scraps, broken suitcases and other plastics.
• Learn how improvisation and constraint can spark creativity in the set building workshop.
• Discuss environmental impact and the power of upcycled art in the  exhibit production lab.

Designing for Exhibition

• Understand how spatial layout, light, and form work in creating immersive exhibits
• Collaborate in building story-driven installation zones across Yaksha’s narrative
• Contribute to the final transformation of EarthLab Club into the Yaksha world

Why It Matters:
In a world of fast consumption, building with our hands and our hearts  is revolutionary. The Exhibit Production Lab teaches children how to think through materials, work in teams, and embrace the unpredictability of making. It’s a space where mess is part of the process, where failure is welcome, and where anything, even an old suitcase can become a story. By the end of the workshop, every participant will have shaped a physical part of the Yaksha Exhibit be it leaves or the mountains and they will learn that creativity doesn’t need perfection, only their presence.

Your Mentor:
Pratiksha Chauhan – Set & Exhibit Mentor
A NIFT graduate and Creative Director by profession, Pratiksha Chauhan is a curator of curiosities and immersive experiences. With over 11 years of experience working with Myntra, VICE Media, and Culture Machine, she specializes in building worlds — across music, culture, and lifestyle. At EarthLab, she brings her playful design philosophy to life, showing children how imagination and improvisation can turn even waste into wonder.

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