Teaching

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

Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History

This was a project to create print-ready maps of the cinema halls that existed in Hyderabad from 1936 to 2018. 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

Seeing, Being, Doing: design

I, co-taught a four month course on responding as a creative practitioner to places where humans and non-humans gather through place-based design research methods. 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

Workshops and Classes

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

Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives

Papad is designed to be used by community-based practitioners to store and access knowledge bases. We were running it over a decentralised community network of workstations for health and research applications. Continue reading Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives

Art that I make

Posters and painting I did for different projects Continue reading Art that I make

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

I created a speculative framework to imagine a long-term sustainable community network and its stakeholders Continue reading Establishing a community network

Mapping Migratory Routes

Mapping Migratory Routes of Pastoralists Across India conducted in collaboration with the Center for Pastoralism (CfP), the endeavor was part of a larger initiative to analyze the impact of the pandemic on pastoralist livelihoods. Continue reading Mapping Migratory Routes

Technofutures from Bidar

This piece is a group reflection of a project run in Bidar, India, to set up a community mesh network facilitated by Living Labs Network and Forum, and Janastu/Servelots. Continue reading Technofutures from Bidar

Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad

This was the output of a 5-week course in Wayanad in Kerala, India in the aftermath of the floods of 2018. The Intervention is an educational tool that asks, How it is possible to build aspirations for the future using storytelling? Continue reading Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad

Pune Covid Relief

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

Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives

Milli was an open-source platform designed to make archives more democratic in the described and annotated ways. The core was to achieve this using the W3C Web Annotation Standard and to see how different archival description standards might translate with the web annotation. Continue reading Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives

Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala

A poetic reflection on the hidden rhythms and overlooked details of daily life in Koramangala, Bangalore. Continue reading Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala

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

The Imposter Among Us

This is a reading list from a discussion on “How do platforms compel/enable the manufacturing of “truth” and “ignorance”? And what does that mean in the context of live-streaming politicians” Continue reading The Imposter Among Us

Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices

I explore 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

South Asian Digital History Repository

The South Asian Digital History repository dedicated to compiling catalogs of Digital History and Digitized History in South Asia. Continue reading South Asian Digital History Repository

Making The Invisible Visible Around An RO Plant

The project aimed initially to investigate how reliance on RO plants could be reduced at a state level. Continue reading Making The Invisible Visible Around An RO Plant

Antarsam: Speculative Fiction about a different Internet

The Antarsam project is a speculative exploration into alternate histories and potential futures, inspired by ecological systems, technological artifacts, cultural contexts, and linguistic roots. Antarsam represents an immersive dive into the possibilities that emerge when the threads of history, technology, and ecology intertwine to weave a new societal fabric. Continue reading Antarsam: Speculative Fiction about a different Internet

Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar