Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
Sun Clock
sunclock.netThe themes of vegetality, entanglement, and symbiosis —emblems of postanthropocentric aesthetics and politics—run throughout the exhibition. Works by artists such as Arthur Boyd, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Regina de Miguel emphasize the agency of animal, microbial, and plant life and the interconnectedness of all beings. They explore how... See more
Terraphilia
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
Plant Futures — the-work
plantfutures.io
My sweet spot is a balance of analog and digital skills, between logic, endearing details, and play.
The timeline seems among the most inescapable metaphors we have. And yet, in its modern form, with a single axis and a regular, measured distribution of dates, it is a relatively recent invention. Understood in this strict sense, the timeline is not even 250 years old. How this could be possible, what alternatives existed before, and what
... See moreMaria Popova • Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
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?
The design of our calendars — the way we arrange our days, weeks, and months — is a reflection of how we aspire to live our lives
Liz Stinson • A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation
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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