Scan the World - India
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Scan the World is an ambitious initiative with the goal of sharing 3D printable sculptures and cultural artifacts using democratized 3D scanning technologies, resulting in a vast ecosystem of free-to-download digital cultural heritage. Communities are encouraged to share their scans, stories, and creations in order to make culture more accessible to the public. It breaks down geographical and socioeconomic barriers by allowing communities to engage with, behold, scan, and own a copy of 3d printable objects that are meaningful to them. It creates a forum for people to learn more about their personal heritage, while also allowing them to add to the otherwise untold story of their ancestors. In its purest form, this network is a shared, open-access future museum developed by and for communities. Scan the World- India is an India Division of this initiative that is envisioned as a para-academic space made from industry, research outfits, and university collaborations. It aims to access lesser-known facets of the Indian culture by reinventing the inquiry of cultural objects using 3D scanning and printing technologies.
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Skill: Documentation & Research
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Software: 3DF Zephyr
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Project Type: Initiative/Collaborative
Human-Water Narratives of Bidar
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Water is a basic necessity for a community’s survival. The water systems in Bidar present varieties of traditional water management, distribution, and usage approaches that present various human-water relationships. Each structure presents a very different nature of water and a conscious understanding of the topography of the place by the people. The people are the users as well as caretakers of these structures and these practices - narratives need to be made visible. This digital archive as a story map presents the untold narratives of human-water relationships within the contexts of Naubad Karez of Bidar as theories of resilience in the current water crisis era. The aim of this archive is to understand the one-on-one relationship of a person to water within the chosen contexts. It will be able to provide a voice to the people of Bidar and their efforts in water management, distribution, and usage.
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Skill: Story collection & Documentation
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Software: Notion, Kumu
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Project Type: Academic/Individual
Digital Archiving- An Indian Approach
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Today's digital technology allows for the inclusion of voices and stories from the margins, as well as the expression of worlds other than human. However, a presence in a digital space can have a positive or negative impact on an individual, their community, and the environment. Regardless of its good intentions, this digital space has the potential to aggravate existing issues and power dynamics. On the other hand, due to insufficient infrastructure for information and communication technologies, not everyone benefits from and has access to digital spaces. Under this larger context, this project considers the questions of how to design a digital space that is transparent, convivial, humane, and accessible in nature in order to present narratives of humans & environment.
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Skill: Leadership
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Software: Square Space, TikiToki, Wordpress, Kumu
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Number of Projects Guided: 6
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Project Type: Academic/Group
Home for a Home
An archive that looks beyond the work and hardship of construction workers by researching and presenting their homes and migratory experiences.
Kusuma
An archive that provides digital access to the flower vendor community at Bangalore's KR Market. It is a repository containing information about the community and culture for future generations to access.
Gujriwala
An archive showing recyclability through the spatial and temporal lens of a Gujriwala to motivate audiences to preserve waste for earning an incentive themselves and contributing to this community's economy.
Turning Green
An archive portraying the architectural space after humans have moved away and nature has taken over, highlighting the species residing within the same.
Unravelling Jakkur Kere
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Bangalore has had continuous urban settlement since the mid-sixteenth century (when it was founded by the mediaeval chieftain Kempe Gowda). The city, which was not connected to any significant perennial water sources, relied instead on an interconnected system of man-made tanks or lakes that harvested rainwater. These lakes serve as a common pool resource that fulfils numerous functions and presents a complex web of information circuits: historical, cultural, ecological, social, and economic. The overall purpose of this project was to uncover and make visible the interconnecting relationships within these artificial natural reservoirs. Along with lake restoration and rejuvenation activities, a deeper social-ecological link through the visibility of layers of relationships that are invisible or hidden to us is required for the long-term sustainability of these water systems. Jakkur lake in Bangalore is an entity linked by several well-functioning systems, and each stakeholder is aware of the various individual parts of the system but is not fully knowledgeable about how it performs at the macro level. Thus, this project questions how we, as information designers, define and perceive the layers of this interwoven complex system of Jakkur lake and make it visible to stakeholders and the public so that they can subscribe to new meanings and perceptions of this man-made natural habitat. The student groups were encouraged to curate a hybrid archive/gallery of information circuits utilizing digital tools like Figma and Miro.
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Skill: Leadership
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Software: Miro, Photoshop, Figma
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Number of Projects Guided: 4
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Project Type: Academic/Group
Socio-Ecological System
Water Management System
Biodiversity Management System
Economic System