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✸ hello i’m aarushi a designer-researcher from india! ✸ I have a cross-discliplanary practice spanning the skills and abilities I collect @myvault, type V-A-U-L-T to reveal 


● Research / Ethnography


!Coming Soon! Longform Thesis

Speculative Stories from Shahpur Jat


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

Quick Links: Thesis PDF, Core77 2020 entry


ETHNOGRAPHY
WORLD BUILDING
FUTURING TOOLS
RAPID-URBANISATION


Article: Open-Access Book 

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 is published by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam in their Critical Meme Reader.

Quick Links: Critical Meme Reader


MEDIA THEORY
DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY
VISUAL ANALYSIS
INDIAN MEMES


Case Study

Lines of Inquiry


A curated exhibition about inquiries that encourages critical thinking among students and visitors. The exhibition also marked a formal shift in NID’s pedagogy from a discipline oriented approach to an inquiry based one.


CURATION
DESIGN PEDAGOGY
CRITICAL PRACTICE
CREATIVE DIRECTION

Case Study

Data Hawker


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


EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
SOCIAL COMMENTARY
DATA & PRIVACY
AWARENESS

Cultural Proposal

Grand Paris - Places en Relation


Paris is changing. The proposal for including suburbs surround Paris into a ‘Grand Paris’ is underway. This project aims at not only documenting this change but also proposing a soft intervention to help the common people who will be affected in this monumental transition.


Recognition: Exhibited at Centre Georges’ Pompidou, Paris

CULTURAL INTERVENTION
DOCUMENTING CHANGE
SOUND ETHNOGRAPHY