Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, observes that the indigenous Potawatomi language is rich in verb forms that attribute aliveness to the more-than-human world. The word for "hill," for example, is a verb: to be a hill. Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.
Equipped with
... See moreClassical scientific definitions of intelligence use humans as a yardstick by which all other species are measured. According to these anthropocentric definitions, humans are always at the top of the intelligence rankings, followed by animals that look like us (chimpanzees, bonobos, etc.), followed again by other "higher" animals, and onward and
... See morePut another way, who stands outside for hours, gazing at a starflower instead of a Samsung Galaxy? When you’re stalking a hawkweed at daybreak, time is an afterthought.
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 moredesign fiction leaking into real life
our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.