The Coastal Classroom : A Residential Retreat into Goa's Alternative Learning Landscape

Goa is often imagined as a place for leisure, but behind the beaches and palms lies a vibrant ecosystem of alternative learning spaces—maker hubs, community schools, travelling classrooms, and homes that have become laboratories for ideas.

The Coastal Classroom is a three-day residential retreat that invites you to step into this landscape. Not as a tourist, but as a learner. Hosted in partnership with Maker’s Asylum, the retreat blends hands-on making, meaningful encounters with pioneers of alternative learning in Goa, and the reflective downtime that makes ideas stick.

This isn’t another conference. It’s a pause, a residency, a chance to reimagine how learning could look when it is shaped by creativity, community, and context.

Retreat Flow

November 14

• 12:00 PM Onwards – Arrivals & Check-in