While human-centered approaches have enabled considerable progress to be made in the design of innovative and...
Genre: PechaKucha
An Apprenticeship in Attention for a Time between Worlds
Through a story of intergenerational sensemaking and reminiscing, this PechaKucha argues that the guiding...
A Personal Research Project that Turned into My Life’s Work
My journey to becoming a social impact founder that started with a simple research question: "Why didn't we see...
Friction as Sneaky Power
Friction frequently presents as a mere by-product of daily life, the innocent outcome of inefficiency or...
In Search of Cultural Entropy: A Call for New Frameworks of Analysis
In this PechaKucha, I explore the tension between an increasingly interconnected global culture and our premise...
“Buy Now, Pay Later” as Resilient Credit
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products like Afterpay and Klarna promise to disrupt and democratise traditional finance by providing a fairer and more empowering financial product. Yet critics argue these products...
Who Deserves to Be Observed?: Wrestling with the Avant-Garde
PechaKucha Presentation—What happens when the “mildly militaristic jargon of marketing” (2004, Sunderland, Taylor, Denny) seeps into the dialectic process of structuring applied research and blurs the meaning of its stakes? This provokingly titled PechaKucha stems from our experience of...
What Will 4 People Think / Chaar Log Kya Kahenge
PechaKucha Presentation—This paper raises the implications of simplifying algorithms for scale and uplifting content that is damaging for human evolution. Technology is powerful because of its scale and also disempowering for the same reason. Scale is in the variables and online media, in the zest...
Repurposing Risograph Machines: The Allure of Small-Scale Printmaking in the Era of Big Data
PechaKucha Presentation—Paper documents are increasingly being replaced with digital files, infinitely replicable for seemingly no cost. Yet I've always felt the pull of paper, with a personal affinity for physical books and a background in magazine production. Through my recreational...
Ethnography’s Role in Seeing the AI’s Blind Spots: Living amongst AI—Agency of the Household
PechaKucha Presentation Home automation has made big promises for utilizing intelligent technology to help the lives of everyday people, but the potential of the technology can only be as good as our understanding of the world we are trying to improve. In this PechaKucha, I share insights from my...