Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
ideas for structuring the talk
Using material from the Allen Forbes Collection, this exhibit traces the scientific process of observing, measuring, and describing that turned whales from monsters into mammals.
Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science | MIT Museum
Computer scientists (then and now) shared the fantasy that human thought could be treated as entirely computable
Fair Warning — Real Life
Products are never neutral. They are always influenced by the thoughts and beliefs of the designers, engineers, and corporations who produce them. Politics of power is a set of power-strips that are openly designed to look, behave and experience the hidden ideologies in everyday products.
Simone Rebaudengo • Politics of Power - Simone Rebaudengo
AI takes what's specific and makes it general. It takes what's wrinkly and makes it smooth.
Katie Parrott • How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI
I wanted it to do the opposite
When I diagram, I start by setting a diagrammatic intention. This provides focus as I research the audience I seek to serve and set the diagrammatic scope that best aligns to those decisions at the diagrammatic scale I am working at.
Jenny Benevento • Stuck? Diagrams Help.
What do people need to understand? What are the edges of the map or diagram? What are you not mapping or diagramming? Where will other people see this map or diagram (e.g., on a wall, in a presentation, on paper)?
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
My sweet spot is a balance of analog and digital skills, between logic, endearing details, and play.
the art of writing
sublime.app