Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
specialized generalist or generalized specialist generally specializing in...
Carly Ayres • The generalist renaissance
Clock time is not what most people think it is. It was created, and it is frequently altered and adjusted to fit social and political purposes.
Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
Send artists and poets to the depths of the oceans and into outer space, for they give meaning to scientific discoveries. After all, we don’t want to know what things are. We want to know what they mean.—Dr. Lawrence Blair
The future of creative work: Still human storytelling?
design fiction leaking into real life
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
Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: When we humanize the world, we may prevent ourselves from understanding the lives of other organisms on their own terms. But are there things this stance might lead us to pass
... See moreFrom the Near Future Laboratory, the definitive book describing in accessible and vivid detail the origins, evolution, and practice of design fiction: “ the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures, to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.”
Chris Frey • The Manual of Design Fiction
“generalists” are just people who are too slow at figuring out what they should be specialists in yet smart enough not to be too punished for it