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● Critique / Speculation / Futures


!Coming Soon!

Speculative Stories from Shahpur Jat


Approaches, Tools and Stories from a critical futures perspective of rapid urbanisation in Delhi

Quick Links: Thesis, Core77 2020 entry
ETHNOGRAPHY
WORLD BUILDING
FUTURING TOOLS
RAPID-URBANISATION XXXXX


Case Study

Data Hawker


Understanding Perceptions around privacy + nudges to highlight the importance of it through a guerilla experiment.


EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
SOCIAL COMMENTARY
DATA & PRIVACY
AWARENESS


To Be Published

Memes & Propaganda


Post-Truth Design Tactics in Memes in India: Decoding Malicious Design Practices in Right-Wing Meme Factories. The article was written in collaboration with Ajitesh Lokhande and will be published by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam in their Critical Meme Reader later in 2021.

MEDIA THEORY
DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY
VISUAL ANALYSIS
INDIAN MEMES


To Be Published

Food at your Voice Command!


A future-informed take on VUI’s in the Indian context, asking how will India order food in the near future? 
Interestingly, this was done in 2018 as a classroom project, and in early 2022 Zomato updated it’s interface with a new voice feature!


VOICE USER INTERFACE
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
SPECULATIVE INTERFACE
2018

Research Proposal

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