Usha Martin University (UMU) is a hybrid university that is currently establishing itself in Ranchi, Jharkhand. UMU is curating an education system for the 21st century by growing a network of institutes that will build the future Indian university.

The design brief expressed a need to represent the learning concept from a theory-based to an action-based learning model and also shifting from a teacher-centric model to learner-centric one. The third criteria was to represent the learning space from classroom experiences to a hybrid of studio, field and online led learning experiences.