Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
MIRIAM YOUNG MAKES UP WORDS AND SPINS WEBS OF LIES. well versed in dreaming up new ways of seeing the world. I have been listening for 'murmurs of future potential'A gentle generalist, I’m not an expert and don't design from a blank slate. I love inhabiting the overlap, the interstitial, and connective tissues of design questions. My process starts
... See moreThe sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.
For most of recorded history, people have thought of people as the only ones that were someone. Well, they used to talk to Rocks, Rivers, and Trees, but they long forgot to do that ever since. This is a book about thinking about how the world is to all the someone’s that aren’t like you and I.
What used to be specific events or activities, like answering emails, have gradually become ongoing processes . “Speeding up” a continuous process means to overclock, to intensify; it can’t ever mean to end or conclude
To underscore their modernity, filing cabinets were called ‘equipment,’ ‘appliances,’ and ‘machines’ — not furniture.