Archie - Annotate and publish your small archive
An attempt at putting the four parts of a IIIF setup - serving the image, making the manifest, storing the annotations, …
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Commonplace: A notebook for the Internet
This works for people whose work is cross-internet by nature, living on Figma, on YouTube, on GitHub, on other people's …
art
Poems
A small collection of poems and reflections
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. …
project
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 …
Art that I make
Posters made for events and advocacy plus more personal paintings, collected across Flickr albums
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 …
Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives
Janastu's audio-archiving tool for community practitioners, deployed on village mesh networks in Tumkur and Channapatna; …
Portfolio - Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications
A portfolio of workshops, classes, panels, and publications that I have organized, spoken at, and written for.
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, …
Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad
A 5-week course in Wayanad, Kerala after the 2018 floods: a stitched-tapestry storytelling tool made with Paniya …
The Lived Experience Project
Work with Enable India and Design Beku on a co-created archive of the lived and organisational knowledge of officers …
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 …
Alternatives and Demands in Network Ruins
Technoscience Salon panel where I spoke about Servelots/Janastu's community network experiments in Karnataka and …
Pune Covid Relief
A website and Glide app built with Design Beku and ICAN in 2021 to list hospitals, pharmacies, and volunteers for Pune …
Kishori Film Festival
An 8-week media-literacy programme with Janastu for 11th-grade young women in Mirzapur, using Inshot and the Aamne Samne …
resource
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 …
Climate Resource Center
Design research in Bidar with Team YUVAA and Deccan Living Labs, documenting farmers' mythic narratives, seasonal …
Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala
A poem about my street in Koramangala, Bangalore: the night quiet, buffaloes passing at dawn, pourakarmikas, and …
Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives
An open-source platform to connect and annotate archives with the W3C Web Annotation Standard, piloted on the NCBS …
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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 …
Carpooling Unalone - Karwaan
A six-month classroom project researching carpooling in India, leading to Karwaan, a community-based ride-sharing app …
Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices
My 2020 Srishti capstone on care practices in collectives, drawing on work with Team YUVAA, Design Beku, Deccan Living …
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 …
Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar
A participatory research project with Project Potential Trust in Bhutijhari, rural Bihar, on how caste shapes education …
Ecological System: Drawing Inspiration from Ants
Speculative fiction set in an alternate India where Netaji survives and ant-inspired decentralized food production (the …
The Disenfranchisement of Paniyas in Kerala
By studying the literature around the Paniya tribe, I cover topics such as population, caste names and structures 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 …
Designers Ace
A set of 101 task cards by aspiring design-school applicants to build design-thinking traits, challenging the idea that …
Glitch Art
Glitch art made through color bending and data bending, a form of visual protest and stimming, part of a broader poster …
Graphics work
Posters, logos, explainers, and graphics made for community network initiatives, open-source collectives, magazine …
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