Ethnography is not a word known to most. In the popular mind, it conjures up one of two images. Either it appears to present the strange and exotic as if it were ordinary, or it presents the every day and the banal as fascinating and worthy of deep analysis. We’re going back to a fun… Continue reading Archives: Delhi Ethnographic Film Festival
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The Currency of Design
“I refuse to add to the chorus,” said DOPE, as the Designer Of Practically Everything was known to his colleagues, “dissing the Rs 2000 note’s design. Instead, let’s treat it as an occasion to ask explore what design means.” I looked sadly at the new Rs 2000 note my newspaper had sent for the interview.… Continue reading The Currency of Design
Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
Recently several Indian Embassy websites were hacked by Kapustkiy & Kasimierz L 2 Pentesters from Netherland, using the most basic security hack of SQL Injection. And it doesn’t end there: Yes, they are making fun of India and the worst part is that they are right. The Pentesters Pentesters are White / Grey hat hackers that… Continue reading Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
The Street, the Studio and Us
We learnt a lot about design, and about ourselves, in the last month. Our studio recently curated an exhibition, which pitted ten products by a Swiss product design firm against ten objects from our culture, to ‘tell their stories’. The pairings aren’t direct. Finding a counterpart requires a matching cultural context, which often doesn’t exist, so we tried… Continue reading The Street, the Studio and Us