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B&S Enforcement Agent App
in Design
Bristow & Sutor is a UK-based enforcement agency that specialises in debt recovery and enforcement services. They work with a range of clients, including local authorities, magistrates' courts, and private sector organisation, to recover outstanding debts such as council tax arrears, parking fines, and commercial rent arrears. This project involved envisioning a new mobile app design for enforcement agents on the field while retaining the functionalities present in the legacy mobile app and migrating existing ones from the web application
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InfoTrax® FlexCloud Developer Portal
InfoTrax® Systems, a trusted global name in the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) software, is an industry leading provider of backend operations systems and online distributor tools for the Direct Sales industry. In order to target diverse clientele and simplify propriety codebase, Infotrax decided to ship their services to their customers as subscription-based APIs instead of their legacy full-stack solutions.
Read MoreTrails of 'Yakshagana'
in Installation, Art
"Trails of a Yakshagana" is a video that captures the essence of a solo Yakshagana performance. The visually appealing video creates a rhythmic experience for the viewers as they follow the dancer's movements. The video, which lasts for 2.5 minutes and loops continuously, uses the power of a computer's graphical processing unit (GPU) to create a motion trail of the performance. Inspired by the traditional dance form of Yakshagana from the coastal Karnataka region, the video gives a modern glimpse of its Navras.
Read MoreProject 'Expo'-Ring
in Installation
As a part of my internship at Pavilions & Interiors Pvt. Ltd., my colleague Srinivas and me, conceptualised an interactive installation which would serve as a touch point for visitors present in an exposition area. Following post describes the process of the same.
Read MoreProject Haze
Project Haze is a site-specific immersive mixed-media installation that tries to invoke the feeling of 'lightness' among its users.
The installation, which works both a day as well as a night installation, takes inspiration from Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics of Air' and explores the notion of using mist to create a 'ganzfeld effect'. In such a situation, the audience gets separated from their surroundings and immersed in a uniform stimulation field of sound, light, and touch. The result is a heightened sensory perception of all the senses and the flow of individual imagination.
The day installation relies on sunlight and wind to create movement in the mist which seems to immerse from the ground and fly upwards lifting the observer with them. The cool sensation of minute water droplets steals the heat from the sun, leaving a cooling sensation with them, the lack of obstacles allows them to play and explore the 'materiality of the cloud'. The viewer also has a chance to spot a circular rainbow against the sun, which seems to participate in their movement adding more delight to the experience.
During the night, the artist uses projection mapping to introduce volume to an otherwise invisible installation which again reinforces the principles of sensorial engagement, freedom in seclusion, and the materiality of mist with its audience.
Read MoreMotion and Code: Explorations
in Art, Programming
For a long time, I have been interesting in capturing the style of Italian master and other icons in visual art history in code and displaying it as a live camera view. It would be interesting to see the world with the eyes of these masters and will open a window into understanding Modern art for a lot of people. Below are 4 examples of such works, but more are underway.
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“Bhukhasur” in Hindi is a playful combination of two words “bhukha” and “asura” means a demon that is always hungry.
Project Bhukasur
in Research, Psychology
The SLA III course revolved around implementing a successful marketing strategy.
THE BRIEF: A group of 5 members were suppose to decide an event and market it to the whole community.
Our team picked up the topic of avoiding food wastage, and the audience of our interest was NID Gandhinagar residents. Since, all the students and faculty in the campus does not exceed 300 individuals, the quality of food remains quite good all the year long. Until recently!
Read More“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.”
Fabric of Truth
in Art
In the pursuit of truth, one often gets exposed to their own biases and prejudices. This is especially true in today’s time when everyone of us is bombarded with information constantly through our online news and WhatsApp forwards. The identification and verification of true news from fake one is a serious issue that concerns everyone of us. For the technologically unaware population, this issue takes new forms of evil. The blind belief in the information from the internet and an absence of critical reasoning establishes a trust ‘network’ that is very difficult to break and open for exploitations. Such exploitations, whether for political or monitory gain, lead to rampant unrest and spoil the underlying fabric of our society. Fabric of Truth aims to invoke a sense of responsibility and awareness among the audience by making them realise that in today’s world ‘seeing is not believing’.
Fabric of Truth lets its audience uncover various interpretations and meanings of truth, both in its absolute and contemporary forms. It also critiques those who use their ‘words of truth’ to mould the innocent mind of masses.
PROCESS
The process involved the construction of a semi-transparent screen to project our interaction on, writing the program for the interaction and mapping the skewed output on the screen. The tools used by us was Processing 3 and Kinect2 for programming and depth sensing and MadMapper for projection mapping.
Our interaction depended critically on the tension of the screen and hence we had to hang weights (metal poles along a groove) at the bottom of the screen. This also ensured a uniformity in the force that was applied on the screen. Please find pictures below.
We highly recommend MadMapper for projection mapping related projects. We initially went for the free version of vpt8 on Mac and soon realised that the software was buggy and had a shitty interface. Compared to that a rental version of MadMapper for 1month comes for around ₹3000 (~43 dollars) and is totally worth using and learning.
INTERACTION
The fabric presented with an excellent opportunity to physically warp the projection surface and interact with it in a more tactile way. The screen served as a border through which physical things could not pass but also served as a corridor for the light to fall and express itself to the onlookers. The second image is the final interaction. I admit its not very pretty and needs more design interventions.
The technical implementation of this project are discussed here.
Special thanks to Ajay Wagela, Dr Jignesh Khakhar.
Fingerprints of a City
In his book, The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch attempted to break down the global form of the cityscape into many components like a path, an edge, a district, a node and a landmark. While these concepts help one in the describing the spatial arrangement of a city, it is sufficiently static in describing its rapidly changing identities. These identities change with time, occasion and context of the user. Hence, our attempt was to develop a more persona-based approach in envisioning a city.
Our fictional narrative revolves around the life of a detective who tries to track down a local drug cartel and in the process gets acquainted with the area near Nehru Bridge, Ahmedabad.
Read MoreDesign Process: 2-wheeler parking in NID Gandhinagar campus
in Design
Course name: Design Process
Mentors:
Juhi Pandey, Balaji Rangaraja
Authors:
Ananya Biswas, Ashish Dubey, Raonak Lakra,
Sarwesh Shah, Suminder Singh, Suruchi Soren