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How to do counter-UI/UX design

Interfaces help manipulate your sense of reality. As a designer/developer who is part of the plural “user” being manipulated, you need a better curriculum than “Design Thinking” Continue reading How to do counter-UI/UX design

Adding Bluesky comments to your Jekyll Site

Emily and then Cory demonstrated a way to add Bluesky comments and replies to a post as comments to your blog. I tried to add it to the Hydejack site Continue reading Adding Bluesky comments to your Jekyll Site

Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History

Making printable maps of hyderabadi cinema halls through the decades Continue reading Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History

How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive

… it felt wrong, that something like this wasn’t a native web standard, but could only easily be made in walled-garden platforms. Continue reading How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive

South Asian Digital History Repository

History of the Digital and Digitized History Continue reading South Asian Digital History Repository

Seeing, Being, Doing: design

Responding as a creative practitioner to places where humans and non-humans gather - A course review Continue reading Seeing, Being, Doing: design

The Lived Experience Project

Archiving and annotating collective experiences for peer learning Continue reading The Lived Experience Project

How I use speculative design

Methods as practice Continue reading How I use speculative design

Design Beku Website

Design Beku is an organization that practices co-design with different communities and cooperatives in India. Continue reading Design Beku Website

List of Articles I wrote

A list of the pieces that I wrote, co-wrote and edited Continue reading List of Articles I wrote

Establishing a community network

A speculative framework to imagine contributors to a community network Continue reading Establishing a community network

Workshops and Classes

A list of the Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications that I organized, spoke, wrote Continue reading Workshops and Classes

Papad

An open-source Audio Annotation and Archival Tool Continue reading Papad

Invisible Cities - Koramangala

Technofutures from Bidar

Published in Compost.Mag Continue reading Technofutures from Bidar

Mapping Migratory Routes

Mapping Migratory Routes of Pastoralists Across India Continue reading Mapping Migratory Routes

Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad

We wanted to let the children create their own stories using our tapestry tool. However, we also decided to make a sample tapestry just as a test prototype. Continue reading Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad

Pune Covid Relief

Website deployed for dissemination of covid-19 resources Continue reading Pune Covid Relief

Milli

An open-source project connecting different archives through a common cross-annotation platform Continue reading Milli

Selecting tools for Indian Collectives

When selecting tools for use by the collectives I worked with in India, we had to consider the following factors due to the unique context and limited resources available Continue reading Selecting tools for Indian Collectives

Care in Collectives

Archetypes of care are roles that individuals take within collectives, embodying various care practices that nurture our shared environments Continue reading Care in Collectives

Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices

My thesis explores the intricate relationship between care, collaboration, and networks within various collectives, delving into my experiences in Team YUVAA, Living Labs Network and Forum, Design Beku, and the InterCity Covid Apps Network. Through thick descriptions and reflective analysis, it observes diverse care-giving roles and proposes alternative organizational structures rooted in mutual aid principles. Continue reading Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices