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  • સ્વ- (Self-)

    2021-present
    Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
    25 min read
    For Parsons School of Design, The New School ➚
    Role: Researcher and Author

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      Crafted Identities • 2021-2024
      Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
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      AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023
      Visual curriculum and website design
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      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
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      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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