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Kim Tae-ri is my Shah Rukh Khan
What does it mean for me to become a fan
essay
33 going on 30 going on 13
How to feel like you are at the correct age
Translategate: The ghost in the Machine
There is a ghost in Google Translate and it survived the AI era
Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?
I am going to analyse YouTube's homepage interface and investigate the potential impact of a extension called Dearrow in …
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 …
How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive
Setting up IIIF image hosting for a small archive with self-hostable tools: static tiles, BIIIF, Wax, Tropy with the …
Illustrations and maps for of "Film City Urbanism in India"
Print-ready maps of Hyderabad's cinema halls from 1936 to 2018, made in Mapbox, QGIS and Inkscape for Yamini C. …
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Website Development - IIHS
A WordPress site for the Tamil Nadu Government's Sustainable Habitats programme, commissioned through IIHS, with …
South Asian Digital History
An open-source 'awesome list' on GitHub collecting web resources on the history of the digital in South Asia and the …
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 …
The Case for a Webinar Pi
Janastu blog post arguing for Webinar Pi, a Raspberry Pi video-conferencing tool for low-literate rural communities that …
Establishing a community network
A speculative framework of stakeholder roles for a community-owned wifi mesh network, built on the COWs principles from …
How I use speculative design
How I use speculative design in my practice, drawing on hauntology (Derrida, Fisher) and projects like Antarsam, the …
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, …
Journeys, Dreams, and Everything In Between
Janastu blog post on a project with young women in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, and the gap between available smart devices …
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Jingle Tales
A Critical Code Recipes contribution documenting how Janastu let young women in Mirzapur customise their Raspberry Pi …
Milli Platform at International Archives Week
At International Archives Week 2021 I presented Milli's designs in a workshop on using W3C Web Annotation to layer …
Mapping Migratory Routes of Pastoralists across India
Janastu project mapping seasonal migratory routes of pastoralist communities across India, combining GIS with …
Kishori Film Festival
An 8-week media-literacy programme with Janastu for 11th-grade young women in Mirzapur, using Inshot and the Aamne Samne …
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Wikipedia Editathon - Dalit History Month
For Dalit History Month, I edited 27 Wikipedia articles on Dalit literature and history, creating 2 new ones and adding …
Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala
A poem about my street in Koramangala, Bangalore: the night quiet, buffaloes passing at dawn, pourakarmikas, and …
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Selecting tools for Indian Collectives
A checklist of factors for choosing digital tools for Indian collectives, from Design Beku's work: export, self-hosting, …
Learning from COWs: Community Owned Wifi-Mesh
Essay in Branch Magazine (Issue 4) on facilitating Janastu's community-owned wifi-mesh networks in rural Karnataka and …
The Imposter Among Us
Notes and a reading list from a Design Baithak talk by Micah and Paul on how platforms manufacture 'truth' and …
Community Networks Stories: Experiences from Co-creating a Local Knowledge Network
Essay for the Association for Progressive Communications on co-creating local knowledge networks with communities in …
essay
Tweaking the Education System
An early 2018 piece for 'Yes, I am Happy' on changes to the education system to better meet student needs, one of my …
Habba
A 2018 internship redesigning the website for Habba, a now-defunct Bangalore artisanal e-commerce platform, focused on …
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