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    • Crafted Identities

    2021-2024
    Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
    Published as Open Access by Columbia University Press in partnership with Transcript Independent Academic Publishing ➚
    Role: Chapter author

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      Crafted Identities • 2021-2024
      Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
    • Post image
      AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
      Visual curriculum and website design
    • Post image
      Digital Fabrication • Spring 2023
      Teaching an undergraduate class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
    • Post image
      xFab Lab • Fall 2022
      Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
    • Post image
      Speculative Spaces • 2022
      An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
    • Post image
      The Weaver • 2022
      A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
    • Post image
      Crafted Machines • 2022
      A talk on cultures and communities of machines
    • Post image
      Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022
      Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
    • Post image
      Interweaving Interfaces: A Memoir • 2022
      A critically fabulated memoir about collective intelligence through theories, philosophies, and applications of textiles
    • Post image
      Tex-taal • 2022
      Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
    • Post image
      Materiality of Time: Wonderings • 2022
      Musings about materiality of time and temporal experiences through materials
    • Post image
      Brushwork • 2011-present
      Art gallery
    • Post image
      Weaving Time • 2022
      What is it like to experience time and temporalities through weaving?
    • Post image
      Touch me or not • 2022
      An emotional textile that remembers a touch, an e-textile exploration
    • Post image
      Bridging Exchange • 2021
      A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
    • Post image
      Core Studio 1: 3D • Fall 2021
      Teaching an undergraduate class focused on exploring the fundamentals of 3D media- materials, form, space, and installation
    • Post image
      Contemporary Weaving • 2015-present
      Workshops teaching handloom, powerloom, and/or computational weaving techniques
    • Post image
      Exist • 2021
      An animated short film
    • Post image
      What the duck! • 2021
      Toy design methodology and prototyping
    • Post image
      Trackster • 2021
      A new species of surveilling cyborgs is breeding amongst us...
    • Post image
      Boxie (he/him/his) • 2021
      Shipping boxes coming alive
    • Post image
      Baby-Oxy (she/her/hers) • 2021
      Oximeters coming alive
    • Post image
      Once upon a time in NYC • 2021
      Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
    • Post image
      Dark Data • 2021
      a web-zine design on the topics of data privacy, surveillance, misuse of data, and data speculations
    • Post image
      સ્વ- (Self-) • 2021-present
      Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
    • Post image
      E-Rigveda • 2020
      A data-feminism map of the oldest sanskrit scripture
    • Post image
      About personal space • 2020
      A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
    • Post image
      Textile Industry's patronage toward a polarized Ahmedabad • 2020
      An overview of how the textile industry shaped the urban and cultural landscape of Ahmedabad (India).
    • Post image
      Mirror Mirror • 2020
      A week of vanity, a data-portrait
    • Post image
      Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020
      An autobiographical experience game
    • Post image
      Carnatic clock • 2020
      A clock based on Indian Carnatic music
    • Post image
      Room Scenes • 2020
      Interior design and modelling for area rugs
    • Post image
      Heimtextil • 2020
      International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
    • Post image
      Prathaa • 2016-2019
      Bringing the essence of several traditional Indian crafts into a commercial dobby-loom-woven collection
    • Post image
      Phygital Pixtile • 2019
      Illustration and printed-textile design
    • Post image
      Humanium • 2019
      Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2020's Spring Summer woven fabrics
    • Post image
      The Curator: Keeper of the arts • 2018
      Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019-2020's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
    • Post image
      Ashima • 2018
      Website design, branding, styling, and photography
    • Post image
      Retreat: Inspired living • 2018
      Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019's Spring Summer woven fabrics
    • Post image
      Riverberation • 2017
      Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018-2019's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
    • Post image
      Psychology • 2017
      Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018's Spring Summer woven fabrics
    • Post image
      Hoot • 2014-2016
      Materializing the enigma of Owls into textiles
    • Post image
      Light • 2016
      Materializing different types of lights into textiles
    • Post image
      Handloom Weaving • 2011-present
      Handwoven swatch gallery
    • Post image
      Architecture Ethos • 2015
      Materializing architecture into textiles
    • Post image
      Hide and Seek • 2015
      A recycled organic cotton, indigo and non-indigo apparel collection, for kids
    • Post image
      Pandora's Box • 2015
      A mixed-media installation and performance about the tale of Pandora's Box
    • Post image
      Colourcall • 2015
      Spatial design and visual merchandise for NIFT
    • Post image
      Matrimandir • 2015
      Materializing architecture into textiles
    • Post image
      My Tsunami Story • 2014
      Painting and textile skill development workshop for women seeking to support their families affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
    • Post image
      A play of Taana Vaana (warp weft) • 2014
      an ethnographic craft research and documentation of brocades of Gujarat, India
    • Post image
      Aquabloom • 2013
      Object study of water lily through material-texture explorations and print design
    • Post image
      Poetry • 2011-present
      Random rhymes

    • WRITING
      • Post image
        Crafted Identities • 2021-2024
        Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
      • Post image
        Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022
        Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
      • Post image
        Interweaving Interfaces: A Memoir • 2022
        A critically fabulated memoir about collective intelligence through theories, philosophies, and applications of textiles
      • Post image
        Weaving Time • 2022
        What is it like to experience time and temporalities through weaving?
      • Post image
        Once upon a time in NYC • 2021
        Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
      • Post image
        સ્વ- (Self-) • 2021-present
        Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
      • Post image
        Textile Industry's patronage toward a polarized Ahmedabad • 2020
        An overview of how the textile industry shaped the urban and cultural landscape of Ahmedabad (India).
      • Post image
        A play of Taana Vaana (warp weft) • 2014
        an ethnographic craft research and documentation of brocades of Gujarat, India
      • Post image
        Poetry • 2011-present
        Random rhymes

    • ALL
      • Post image
        Crafted Identities • 2021-2024
        Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
      • Post image
        AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
        Visual curriculum and website design
      • Post image
        Digital Fabrication • Spring 2023
        Teaching an undergraduate class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        xFab Lab • Fall 2022
        Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        Speculative Spaces • 2022
        An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
      • Post image
        The Weaver • 2022
        A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
      • Post image
        Crafted Machines • 2022
        A talk on cultures and communities of machines
      • Post image
        Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022
        Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
      • Post image
        Interweaving Interfaces: A Memoir • 2022
        A critically fabulated memoir about collective intelligence through theories, philosophies, and applications of textiles
      • Post image
        Tex-taal • 2022
        Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
      • Post image
        Brushwork • 2011-present
        Art gallery
      • Post image
        Weaving Time • 2022
        What is it like to experience time and temporalities through weaving?
      • Post image
        Touch me or not • 2022
        An emotional textile that remembers a touch, an e-textile exploration
      • Post image
        Bridging Exchange • 2021
        A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
      • Post image
        Core Studio 1: 3D • Fall 2021
        Teaching an undergraduate class focused on exploring the fundamentals of 3D media- materials, form, space, and installation
      • Post image
        Contemporary Weaving • 2015-present
        Workshops teaching handloom, powerloom, and/or computational weaving techniques
      • Post image
        Exist • 2021
        An animated short film
      • Post image
        What the duck! • 2021
        Toy design methodology and prototyping
      • Post image
        Trackster • 2021
        A new species of surveilling cyborgs is breeding amongst us...
      • Post image
        Boxie (he/him/his) • 2021
        Shipping boxes coming alive
      • Post image
        Baby-Oxy (she/her/hers) • 2021
        Oximeters coming alive
      • Post image
        Once upon a time in NYC • 2021
        Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
      • Post image
        Dark Data • 2021
        a web-zine design on the topics of data privacy, surveillance, misuse of data, and data speculations
      • Post image
        સ્વ- (Self-) • 2021-present
        Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
      • Post image
        E-Rigveda • 2020
        A data-feminism map of the oldest sanskrit scripture
      • Post image
        About personal space • 2020
        A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
      • Post image
        Textile Industry's patronage toward a polarized Ahmedabad • 2020
        An overview of how the textile industry shaped the urban and cultural landscape of Ahmedabad (India).
      • Post image
        Mirror Mirror • 2020
        A week of vanity, a data-portrait
      • Post image
        Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020
        An autobiographical experience game
      • Post image
        Carnatic clock • 2020
        A clock based on Indian Carnatic music
      • Post image
        Room Scenes • 2020
        Interior design and modelling for area rugs
      • Post image
        Heimtextil • 2020
        International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
      • Post image
        Prathaa • 2016-2019
        Bringing the essence of several traditional Indian crafts into a commercial dobby-loom-woven collection
      • Post image
        Phygital Pixtile • 2019
        Illustration and printed-textile design
      • Post image
        Humanium • 2019
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2020's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        The Curator: Keeper of the arts • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019-2020's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Ashima • 2018
        Website design, branding, styling, and photography
      • Post image
        Retreat: Inspired living • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Riverberation • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018-2019's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Psychology • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Hoot • 2014-2016
        Materializing the enigma of Owls into textiles
      • Post image
        Light • 2016
        Materializing different types of lights into textiles
      • Post image
        Handloom Weaving • 2011-present
        Handwoven swatch gallery
      • Post image
        Architecture Ethos • 2015
        Materializing architecture into textiles
      • Post image
        Hide and Seek • 2015
        A recycled organic cotton, indigo and non-indigo apparel collection, for kids
      • Post image
        Pandora's Box • 2015
        A mixed-media installation and performance about the tale of Pandora's Box
      • Post image
        Colourcall • 2015
        Spatial design and visual merchandise for NIFT
      • Post image
        Matrimandir • 2015
        Materializing architecture into textiles
      • Post image
        My Tsunami Story • 2014
        Painting and textile skill development workshop for women seeking to support their families affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
      • Post image
        A play of Taana Vaana (warp weft) • 2014
        an ethnographic craft research and documentation of brocades of Gujarat, India
      • Post image
        Aquabloom • 2013
        Object study of water lily through material-texture explorations and print design
      • Post image
        Poetry • 2011-present
        Random rhymes

    • GRAPHICS
      • Post image
        AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
        Visual curriculum and website design
      • Post image
        Brushwork • 2011-present
        Art gallery
      • Post image
        Dark Data • 2021
        a web-zine design on the topics of data privacy, surveillance, misuse of data, and data speculations
      • Post image
        Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020
        An autobiographical experience game
      • Post image
        Phygital Pixtile • 2019
        Illustration and printed-textile design
      • Post image
        Humanium • 2019
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2020's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        The Curator: Keeper of the arts • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019-2020's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Retreat: Inspired living • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Riverberation • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018-2019's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Psychology • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Aquabloom • 2013
        Object study of water lily through material-texture explorations and print design

    • ETHNOGRAPHY
      • Post image
        Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022
        Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
      • Post image
        Interweaving Interfaces: A Memoir • 2022
        A critically fabulated memoir about collective intelligence through theories, philosophies, and applications of textiles
      • Post image
        Tex-taal • 2022
        Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
      • Post image
        Weaving Time • 2022
        What is it like to experience time and temporalities through weaving?
      • Post image
        Bridging Exchange • 2021
        A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
      • Post image
        Once upon a time in NYC • 2021
        Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
      • Post image
        E-Rigveda • 2020
        A data-feminism map of the oldest sanskrit scripture
      • Post image
        About personal space • 2020
        A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
      • Post image
        Mirror Mirror • 2020
        A week of vanity, a data-portrait
      • Post image
        Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020
        An autobiographical experience game
      • Post image
        Carnatic clock • 2020
        A clock based on Indian Carnatic music
      • Post image
        Prathaa • 2016-2019
        Bringing the essence of several traditional Indian crafts into a commercial dobby-loom-woven collection
      • Post image
        Matrimandir • 2015
        Materializing architecture into textiles
      • Post image
        My Tsunami Story • 2014
        Painting and textile skill development workshop for women seeking to support their families affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
      • Post image
        A play of Taana Vaana (warp weft) • 2014
        an ethnographic craft research and documentation of brocades of Gujarat, India

    • TEACHING
      • Post image
        Digital Fabrication • Spring 2023
        Teaching an undergraduate class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        xFab Lab • Fall 2022
        Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        Core Studio 1: 3D • Fall 2021
        Teaching an undergraduate class focused on exploring the fundamentals of 3D media- materials, form, space, and installation
      • Post image
        Contemporary Weaving • 2015-present
        Workshops teaching handloom, powerloom, and/or computational weaving techniques
      • Post image
        My Tsunami Story • 2014
        Painting and textile skill development workshop for women seeking to support their families affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

    • FABRICATION
      • Post image
        Digital Fabrication • Spring 2023
        Teaching an undergraduate class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        xFab Lab • Fall 2022
        Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022
        Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
      • Post image
        Tex-taal • 2022
        Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
      • Post image
        Touch me or not • 2022
        An emotional textile that remembers a touch, an e-textile exploration
      • Post image
        About personal space • 2020
        A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
      • Post image
        Room Scenes • 2020
        Interior design and modelling for area rugs
      • Post image
        Prathaa • 2016-2019
        Bringing the essence of several traditional Indian crafts into a commercial dobby-loom-woven collection
      • Post image
        Hoot • 2014-2016
        Materializing the enigma of Owls into textiles
      • Post image
        Light • 2016
        Materializing different types of lights into textiles
      • Post image
        Handloom Weaving • 2011-present
        Handwoven swatch gallery
      • Post image
        Architecture Ethos • 2015
        Materializing architecture into textiles
      • Post image
        Hide and Seek • 2015
        A recycled organic cotton, indigo and non-indigo apparel collection, for kids
      • Post image
        Matrimandir • 2015
        Materializing architecture into textiles

    • SHOWCASE
      • Post image
        Speculative Spaces • 2022
        An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
      • Post image
        The Weaver • 2022
        A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
      • Post image
        Crafted Machines • 2022
        A talk on cultures and communities of machines
      • Post image
        Exist • 2021
        An animated short film
      • Post image
        About personal space • 2020
        A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
      • Post image
        Room Scenes • 2020
        Interior design and modelling for area rugs
      • Post image
        Heimtextil • 2020
        International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
      • Post image
        Pandora's Box • 2015
        A mixed-media installation and performance about the tale of Pandora's Box
      • Post image
        Colourcall • 2015
        Spatial design and visual merchandise for NIFT

    • SELECTED
      • Post image
        Crafted Identities • 2021-2024
        Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
      • Post image
        AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
        Visual curriculum and website design
      • Post image
        xFab Lab • Fall 2022
        Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
      • Post image
        Speculative Spaces • 2022
        An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
      • Post image
        The Weaver • 2022
        A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
      • Post image
        Tex-taal • 2022
        Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
      • Post image
        Bridging Exchange • 2021
        A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
      • Post image
        Exist • 2021
        An animated short film
      • Post image
        Room Scenes • 2020
        Interior design and modelling for area rugs
      • Post image
        Heimtextil • 2020
        International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
      • Post image
        Ashima • 2018
        Website design, branding, styling, and photography
      • Post image
        Light • 2016
        Materializing different types of lights into textiles

    • STRATEGY
      • Post image
        Speculative Spaces • 2022
        An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
      • Post image
        Bridging Exchange • 2021
        A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
      • Post image
        What the duck! • 2021
        Toy design methodology and prototyping
      • Post image
        Heimtextil • 2020
        International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
      • Post image
        Humanium • 2019
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2020's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        The Curator: Keeper of the arts • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019-2020's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Ashima • 2018
        Website design, branding, styling, and photography
      • Post image
        Retreat: Inspired living • 2018
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019's Spring Summer woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Riverberation • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018-2019's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
      • Post image
        Psychology • 2017
        Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018's Spring Summer woven fabrics

    • WEB-DESIGN
      • Post image
        AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
        Visual curriculum and website design
      • Post image
        Dark Data • 2021
        a web-zine design on the topics of data privacy, surveillance, misuse of data, and data speculations
      • Post image
        Ashima • 2018
        Website design, branding, styling, and photography

    • DATA-VIZ
      • Post image
        The Weaver • 2022
        A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
      • Post image
        સ્વ- (Self-) • 2021-present
        Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
      • Post image
        E-Rigveda • 2020
        A data-feminism map of the oldest sanskrit scripture
      • Post image
        Textile Industry's patronage toward a polarized Ahmedabad • 2020
        An overview of how the textile industry shaped the urban and cultural landscape of Ahmedabad (India).
      • Post image
        Mirror Mirror • 2020
        A week of vanity, a data-portrait
      • Post image
        Carnatic clock • 2020
        A clock based on Indian Carnatic music

    • ANIMATION
      • Post image
        Bridging Exchange • 2021
        A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
      • Post image
        Exist • 2021
        An animated short film
      • Post image
        What the duck! • 2021
        Toy design methodology and prototyping
      • Post image
        Trackster • 2021
        A new species of surveilling cyborgs is breeding amongst us...
      • Post image
        Boxie (he/him/his) • 2021
        Shipping boxes coming alive
      • Post image
        Baby-Oxy (she/her/hers) • 2021
        Oximeters coming alive
      • Post image
        Once upon a time in NYC • 2021
        Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
      • Post image
        Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020
        An autobiographical experience game
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