DESIGN
DIGITAL GANDHARA IS AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL WEB ARCHIVE FOR EXPLORING ANCIENT BUDDHIST SITES AND ARTIFACTS [HARVARD CAMLAB, 2024]
SILENT SUMMER IS A COMMUNITY SCIENTIST’S DIGITAL GUIDEBOOK TO THREATENED MIGRATORY BIRDS ON CAPE ANN, MA [HARVARD OFFICE FOR URBANIZATION, 2024]
MY RIVER MAKES NUMBERS MY RIVER MAKES LOVE IS A LECTURE ON COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHIC DATA AND INTERSPECIES KINSHIP ON THE INDUS RIVER [UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM, 2023]
MANGROVE ECOLOGIES IS A CATALOG OF REFORESTATION KNOWLEDGE IN THE INDUS DELTA [HARVARD DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 2022]
HIYOKECHI IS A SPATIAL READING OF TOKYO’S PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE HISTORY OF DISASTER MITIGATION [HARVARD REAL ESTATE, 2023]
OASIS IS A SATELLITE IMAGING BASED MODEL FOR ECOLOGICALLY-ATTUNED MIGRATION IN THE SAHEL [SPATIAL DESIGN FOR CLIMATE MIGRATION, 2024]
FORENSIC WATERS IS A MAPPING PROJECT THAT TRACES GROUNDWATER SALINITY FROM COLONIAL DAMS TO ANCIENT HARAPPAN HERITAGE [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2022]
WEATHER ISLANDS IS A MODEL FOR EROSION-DRIVEN LANDSCAPES IN RIVERINE ECOSYSTEMS [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2019]
INDUS ATLAS IS A MAPPING AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WATER-MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INDUS BASIN [HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, 2022]
FILM
TENDING IS A SONIC FILM ON PRACTICES OF LAND REPAIR AND CARE WITHIN THE FLOOD ZONES OF GLACIAL LAKES IN THE ROLWALING VALLEY OF NEPAL
HYMNS FOR GLACIA IS A FILM DOCUMENTING THE LOSS OF GLACIAL LANDS AND LIFE ALONG THE KARAKORUM HIGHWAY IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN [MIT, 2024]
SPACE
WE ARE ONE IS A MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION NARRATING A HISTORIC WOMEN’S LABOR MOVEMENT IN INDIA [HARVARD CGIS, 2024]
AUDIO AVIARY IS AN INSTALLATION FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THREATENED BIRDS USING COMMUNITY SCIENCE [GUND HALL, 2024]
SONIC WEATHERS IS A STAGE INSTALLATION COMPILING SOUNDS, INSTRUMENTS, AND VOCALS FROM THE HIMALAYA [KIRKLAND GALLERY, 2024]
SPOOKY TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXHIBITION OF UNSETTLING DATA-MINING TECHNOLOGIES IN DOMESTIC SPACE [CMU IDEATE, 2022]
ALARMS IS A LISTENING SESSION OF FIELD RECORDINGS TAKEN IN SPAIN’S NANSA VALLEY [FUNDACION BOTIN, 2024]
SONIC WEATHERS
Installation and Sensory Performance Using
Field Recordings, Vocals, and Musical Traditions of the Himalaya
Kirkland Gallery
(2023)
Collaborators:
Pravah Khandekhar, Shivesh Sood,
Manaswi Mishra, Aakash Rao, Volkan Efe
AUDIO AVIARY
A Device to Call to
Songbirds with Citizen-Recorded Birdsongs
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Harvard Office for Urbanization
(2024)
MDes Open Project
Advised by Charles Waldheim
AUDIO AVIARY is a bird sound installation at Gund Hall. In opposition to its colonial history of capture and ecological conquest, this Aviary is positioned not a technology of capture. It is instead a sort of telephone. Public participants use the installation to call, sing, to surrounding birds. Speakers then transmit ‘citizen’-recorded sounds from Cape Ann to Cambridge — rehearsing a call, between the places where threatened species live now and the environments they will adapt to. In attuning to these changes, we participate in their collective sounds for an interspecies future.
AUDIO AVIARY is a bird sound installation at Gund Hall. In opposition to its colonial history of capture and ecological conquest, this Aviary is positioned not a technology of capture. It is instead a sort of telephone. Public participants use the installation to call, sing, to surrounding birds. Speakers then transmit ‘citizen’-recorded sounds from Cape Ann to Cambridge — rehearsing a call, between the places where threatened species live now and the environments they will adapt to. In attuning to these changes, we participate in their collective sounds for an interspecies future.
HUM SAB EK
Hum Sab Ek, or We Are All One, is a multimedia exhibition that tells the stories of poor rural working women in India and their efforts to navigate the greatest public health crisis of our time: COVID-19.
Collaborating with faculty and students from across Harvard University, the exhibition compiles photographs, installations, data visualization from across disciplinary boundaries. Accompanied by a web platform, it foregrounds the stories of the women organizers themselves. Graphics use language from English to Gujarati to narrate the solidarity and alternative economies of the movement.
