Planning the future of living, this lab reimagines how people interact with environments, infrastructure and each other. Projects span connectivity, next-generation housing, agritech/ food security, mobility systems, urban governance and the data-driven city. Key challenges include equitable access, privacy, ecological resilience and coherent long-term planning. We explore novel living systems - integrating ideas from architecture, systems engineering, urban sociology and technology enhancement. Supported by international collaborators, we prototype sustainable, human-centred futures that can scale globally.
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Dhun: A Living Prototype for Regenerative Civilisation
At the Frontier Technologies Laboratory, we are proud to support Dhun - a 500-acre regenerative living prototype near Jaipur that explores the future of living systems through a sustainable, civilisational lens. Led by Manvendra Singh Shekhawat, Dhun reimagines development not as an extractive force, but as a regenerative act - where culture, ecology, and community are foundational infrastructure. By activating ancestral knowledge systems and underutilised heritage assets, Dhun serves as both a testbed and a beacon for place-based innovation. The project demonstrates how rooted, narrative-rich environments can offer scalable alternatives to modern monocultures; restoring dignity to land, memory to people and meaning to progress.
Building on the insights generated through Dhun, the project is expanding to a network of historic sites across India. These include Chunar Fort, Chattar Manzil, and a range of other architectural icons in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The sites will be transformed into cultural campuses that blend regenerative hospitality, civic programming, local enterprise, and cultural production. Each site will be developed as a contextual response to its landscape and history, carrying forward a common ethos of place-based innovation. Together, they form an evolving ecosystem of living heritage; spaces where history is not merely preserved but reactivated to shape viable and dignified futures.
Project Lead: Manvendra Singh Shekhawat
Example of Research: Documentation of Historic Havelis
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Ecophillic
(Venture) The Plant-Computer Interface.
Ecophilic, a pioneering deep-tech company unlocking real-time communication between plants and technology to transform agriculture, aquaculture and environmental restoration. By integrating AI, structured materials, and synthetic biology, we’ve developed proven systems that dramatically reduce resource use while boosting productivity - delivering the benefits of genetic engineering without altering the plants themselves. The mission is to harmonise nature and technology to build scalable, sustainable ecosystems for a rapidly changing world.
Project Lead: Josh Van Zack
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