Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
time of the sky
i design things.
i think design can change things.
i think the things we design are just as important as the things we choose not to.
i think we should design things that do the things we don't enjoy, and make the things we do enjoy, even better.
i think there are too many things.
i think there should be fewer, but better things*.
the best things.... See more
i think design can change things.
i think the things we design are just as important as the things we choose not to.
i think we should design things that do the things we don't enjoy, and make the things we do enjoy, even better.
i think there are too many things.
i think there should be fewer, but better things*.
the best things.... See more
Marco Cornacchia—Product Designer in SF
From 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
The filing cabinet encouraged the drive to break more and more of modern life and its everyday routines into discrete, observable, and manageable parts
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
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
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
... See moreJill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
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return-borrowed-time.webflow.io
Re-affirming the body as a key material of interaction design, and the interactions between bodies and ecosystems a key subject of study, this project explores how understanding the more-than-human bodies we are nested within, and have nested within us, may alter our perceptions of the worlds we live in and share.