Selected work spanning large-scale experience design, product development, interaction design, and participatory research. 2005–2023.
A mosaic of perspectives—architectural, spontaneous, personal, kinetic. Positioned in a high-traffic passageway, the installation offers a welcoming homecoming gesture by making viewers part of itself through interactive mirrors. The dance of the eternal and temporal—masks, movement, and faces—defines the work. Serves 50M+ annual passengers.
Kinetic installation depicting motion of traditional Indian vehicles (vahanas) using pre-digital animation techniques. Motion before motorisation, depicted through animation from before computers. As a still image, the work displays potential for animation upfront—a permanent sculpture that implies movement.
Architectural installation featuring a panel rendering two women in conversation. The work invites questions about the nature of such exchanges—science fictions could emerge, but also traces of the deeply personal. Frozen, but thawing slowly. Bridges traditional craftsmanship with contemporary airport infrastructure.
Multi-purpose bamboo installation envisioning diverse street life. Simultaneous community (top) and commercial (bottom) use were proposed—reimagining public infrastructure for shared urban space. Exhibited internationally at Futuresonic Festival, Consume @ Exit Art (New York), and Peter Scott Gallery.
Video installation projecting text onto zigzag acrylic with light-filtering patterns. The piece explores how information transforms through material mediation—text becoming abstraction, clarity becoming ambiguity.
Cash counting machine repurposed as animation device. Frames printed on 500-rupee sized paper are animated by the machine's flipping speed, captured by a modified lamp-head camera and displayed on B&W television. Explores hardware hacking and repurposing existing technology.
Sandals with embedded circuits (GPS, Arduino) to navigate wearers towards infrequent spots in the city. Tools for urban exploration. Early exploration of embodied navigation and wearable technology. Curated by Gitanjali Dang for Continuum Transfunctioner.
Objects embedded with USB security keys that enable layers of private conversation on public websites. Hardware-based authentication for privacy-preserving communication. Exhibited at Transmediale (Berlin) and MuseumsQuartier (Vienna).
Custom top-down racing game with modified objectives. Instead of driving fast to win, players search for escape routes to leave the race. Leaving in time is the only way to win. Clues are passed through collisions. Explores alternative success metrics through game mechanics.
Video game mod replacing bullets and bombs with words, modelling a war of language rather than violence. Exhibited at The Guild (Myth/Reality, curated by Veerangana Solanki) and India Art Fair 2010. Explores game mechanics as tool for reframing conflict narratives.
Game based on a linguistic database of value-laden words. Two avatars chase each other, with speeds determined by the semantic value of words they collide with. Dynamic value assignment creates emergent complexity. Curated by Himali Singh Soin for Words: a user's manual.
Twitter-based monthly journal. Each issue: six tweets—four by humans, one by bot, one by sponsor. No individual credits, only issue-wide. Which tweet is by whom remains ambiguous. Explores authorship and AI collaboration. Exhibited at The Gig Is Up, V2 Rotterdam (curated by Sarah Cook).
Site-specific game establishing audience-artwork relationships through rule-based interactions. Rules revealed on site. Facilitates exchanges between viewers through multiple cycles of structured engagement. Exhibited at Pocket Maps of the Mind (curated by Veerangana Solanki).
Neighbourhood public art project inviting children from the local area to tell stories about their environment in exchange for different things. Ethnographic design research surfacing local knowledge through exchange-based methodology. Staged at Working Women's Hostel, Thippasandra.
Pop-up service centre in parks and parking lots offering humane, generous services not typically available in cities—friendly conversation, small acts of care. Commissioned by Dis-locate Residency, Japan. Explores service design through social intervention.
Programme inviting laid-off technology workers to find alternative uses of their time. Created during the 2008 recession for skill-sharing and community building among displaced workers. Early exploration of transition design. Staged at Thippasandra, Bangalore.
Micro-residency programme inviting sound artists to spend time and perform in a public toilet. Before artists arrived, the space was cleaned and transformed. Designed programme structure, artist selection, and spatial transformation protocols. Commissioned by Dis-locate Residency.
Performance project involving walks through different neighbourhoods with statements expressing democratic right-to-access. A photographer documented the process. Explores design's role in advocating for equitable access to public space.
Public art initiative growing vegetables in baskets hanging from trees in a suburban area. Exploring vertical urban agriculture and community food systems. Staged outside Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology.
Short film (5.5 mins) about the experiences of a temporarily homeless person in Mumbai. User research through documentary storytelling. Screened at Open Frame and Biennale du carnet de voyage (Clermont Ferrand, France).