Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
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?
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and
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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
We question and reimagine familiar encounters between humans and things.
studiotilt.design
Singer, an Australian philosopher, popularized the concept of “speciesism,” which he compared to racism and sexism. “All animals are equal,” he asserted, adding, “The basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration.” Singer did not actually advocate for legal rights but for expanded
... See moreLawrence-wright • The Elephant in the Courtroom
