Kalyani Tupkary

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*.

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she is driven by her interest in the hidden political nature of everyday spaces, technologies, and routines, and how the design of the ordinary is involved in shaping values, practices, and ideologies.

We have included in the last section of the exhibition reproductions of a large drawing and a series of pages from a booklet produced by the architecture and media collective Ant Farm in the mid-1970's. What they depict is a radical and almost utopian project, the development of a floating research station for communication with dolphins. It's... See more