Kalyani Tupkary

Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.

Re-affirming the body as a key material of interaction design, and the interactions between bodies and ecosystems a key subject of study, this project explores how understanding the more-than-human bodies we are nested within, and have nested within us, may alter our perceptions of the worlds we live in and share.

A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more

Discovered my new fav metaphor for time in Richard Powers’ novel about trees, The Overstory 🌳