Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
Center For Craft • The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 | Center for Craft
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
Weather exists as an atmosphere that can be measured, as an environment that is lived, and as time in which we experience humidity, pressure, temperature, and visibility. What would be the appropriate terms of weather that speak to this trio of concerns – measure, experience, and time? This glossary of weather is a manual to navigate through the... See more
Words of Weather: A glossary
From the Near Future Laboratory, the definitive book describing in accessible and vivid detail the origins, evolution, and practice of design fiction: “ the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures, to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.”
Chris Frey • The Manual of Design Fiction
Plant Futures — the-work
plantfutures.io
strong presentation is often what gets an idea accepted. If the story is told well, and the presenter speaks with an understanding of the client and their world, it can help people connect emotionally, functionally, or practically.A strong presentation can help people believe in something riskier or more complex.
light paintings