Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.
Joseph Stromberg • The bizarre history of cellphone towers disguised as trees
our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.
Linda Geddes • The Guardian
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
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The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.
Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
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.”