Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
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
Nix • things that take time
Like so many botanical concepts, the flower clock originated with the Swedish ur-taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, in his 1751 treatise “Philosophia Botanica.” Based on field observations, he divided flowers into three categories. The meteorici open and close with the weather. The tropici follow the changing hours of daylight. And the aequinoctales,
... See moreFive Minutes to Moonflower (Published 2015)
The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
We 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