Academics establish strict frontiers; sometimes, institutionalise the charisma of growing and learning within the classroom contexts. As teachers we need to create spaces; spaces that accommodate all variety of talents. For that reason, an initiative of setting up a ‘Literature and Art Studio’ has been taken up by Dr. K. Sandhya Deepthi, Lecturer in English at TSWRDC, Nizamabad. The customised space has been instrumental in letting students explore their own creative capabilities outside the traditional framework of classroom — changing the architecture and dynamics of learning. As classroom spaces have an inevitable character of being instructional, hierarchical and allow less or no control over one's own learning, creating spaces that subvert classroom dynamics will reduce teacher intervention and induce responsible learning. Whether at college or at home, a cognitive space of one's own, operating towards one's own desired interest will set off a beginning for research-oriented learning in a student.

The literature lab is designed to help students find an amicable way to express effectively and improve their language competence while retaining their own gifted interests. When individual interests of students’ are nurtured both within and outside classroom contexts, the risk of passive learning can be attenuated. Individual mentoring (i.e. providing tailor-made courses/books), the freedom to read and write about the subject of their own choice is what is primarily required to safeguard a student's creative instincts. The studio space that can foster such subjective approach helps one in connecting the dots between self and learning—to necessarily carry conviction and foster thought; leaving the student free to think, explore and create.

In a fast-growing academia, the teaching-learning platforms are much diverse and flexible, catering to all varieties of talents. So is the rate of competition, achievement and acclamation of today’s selfie-generation. Earning a sense of achievement becomes a prerequisite for a student that helps her imbibe enough confidence to embark upon new avenues of creative expression in the present-day academic scenario. The Literature and Art Studio at Telangana Social Welfare Residential Degree College for Women, Nizamabad, stands an experimental project that is established with an essential vision to democratise creativity: to let the minds of our up-and-coming generation of story- tellers delve into every possible dimension of expression, whether it be writing, art or film; letting their imagination unfold the ‘very own’ narratives around ways that leave a liberal room to manoeuvre the process of self-discovery.