Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
jzhao.xyz
jzhao.xyz
You make it (somewhat) arbitrary. Divide the world into 24 time zones, and slowly force people — often through colonial might — to abide by one, standard time for an entire wedge. Do it in the name of commerce, of travel, of ease of communication, of ease . Fast-forward a century and a half, and this rational/irrational time is just the way
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Autonomous Tree
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Parliament of Things — Speculative research based on Latour's work.
theparliamentofthings.orgWe have included in the last section of the exhibition reproductions of a large drawing and a series of pages from a booklet produced by the architecture and media collective Ant Farm in the mid-1970's. What they depict is a radical and almost utopian project, the development of a floating research station for communication with dolphins. It's... See more
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Forging unique interactive experiences that engender richer, real-world connections
Is there a “Rosebud” object in your past? A long-vanished thing that lingers in your memory—whether you want it to or not? As much as we may treasure the stuff we own, perhaps just as significant are the objects we have, in one way or another, lost. What is it about these bygone objects? Why do they continue to haunt us long after they’ve vanished
... See moreRob Walker • Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter
The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts