Some reflections on my thoughts about the future today. I might have a different mindset and vision for myself a couple of months later. So, this is a sort of reverse and aspirational time capsule. Why am I interested in the future? “ Will there be no Foresight until those bombs begin to rain upon us?” —…

Case example: Tay- the Twitter bot On March 23rd, 2016, an artificial intelligence chatbot by Microsoft was released on Twitter called Tay after the acronym — Thinking About You. It was modelled to mimic the language patterns of a 19-year-old American girl and to learn from interactions with other human Twitter users (Wikipedia contributors, 2020b). As…

Reflections and feedback 1- I wanted to get the first episode out- and a lot of things were happening in my life at the moments, so I didn't follow a structure of writing. I wrote the story intuitively in a short timed…

This is part of a series of observations, stories and comics about certain characteristic interstices of time and space within a modern workplace. The author is a participant-observer to the behaviours and rhythms of what happens between and at these interstices of time. See #1: The storm before the flow #2 Active interstices …

This is part of a series of observations, stories and comics about certain characteristic interstices of time and space within a modern workplace. The author is a participant-observer to the behaviours and rhythms of what happens between and at these interstices of time. #1 The storm before the flow Phase 1: 9:00 AM: It is a…

When you are looking for information, what are the ways in which you assimilate it? How much control (or perceived control) do you have over this information assimilation and how much can you trust the information you are getting? I am en route to be a professional in the design…

A week-long exercise to learn about research methods in social design while unpacking the meaning and significance of old age homes in France. Team: Shreya, Lina and Johnathan In La Chapelle Sur Erdre (a small commune in the west of France), live 20, 000 people of which 50 per cent…

In order of appearance: N Chandrasekhar Ramanujan likes Chandra and loves to indulge in behavioural design. attnchand@gmail.com Sweta Bisht likes cats and has interest in community-centred design. swetabisht.mails@gmail.com Shreya Chopra likes dogs and her interest lies in social design. shreyachopra711@gmail.com

A design thinking event where we used Lightning Decision Jam to come up with our next design event at Srishti ACM SIGCHI Student Chapter! — Srishti Institute ACM SIGCHI student chapter provides a platform where peer-to-peer learning happens at intersections of Design, Technology and Art. However, there seems to a general misconception that we are just all about computers and “intimidating techie stuff”. We wanted to work with people from different backgrounds in design…