Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
The story of Hvaldimir is, in no small part, about the longing between people and a curious animal to get to know one another, and about the transformations that can result. Why not advocate for more interaction between humans and animals, when they naturally and safely occur?

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.
ideas for structuring the talk
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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The clock does not measure time; it produces it.