Janaki Ranpura
MA work
MA work
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Touchies camera diagram, 2019
mixed materials -
Touchies elements, 2019
structured light scanning + facial analysis -
Touching without seeing, 2019
laser-embossed microcapsule paper -
Votem, 2018
digital voting token -
Choosing to Kill, 2018
live crickets -
Flamingo Food, with Pascal Romme, Manoj Kumar 2018
portable bacterial bioreactor -
Rorschach Chair, 2017
bent plywood
Touchies
The thesis work presented here is Touchies, the product of 6 months of research in “charismatic design” for the blind — instead of thinking about accessibility as necessity, how can we create things to help grow pleasure and pride? To this end, Touchies is a blueprint for a Polaroid system that outputs tactile photographs of faces, so people with vision loss can participate in family events with a camera designed for their use and an output they can both read and share like any sighted person would.
Further work presented is from the months in the joint MA / MSc of the IDE program: a tangible object that helps transition to digital voting; research into home-farming protein, from crickets to bacteria; and, inspired by the efficiencies of urban living as well as the Shaker lifestyle, a functional plywood chair that disassembles into a wall sculpture when not in use.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2019
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Contact
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+44 (0) 7572133891
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Janaki / Nik makes systems and things to support creative citizenship, which she defines as new ways for us to make a shared future that belongs to us and in which we belong.
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Degrees
- Diploma in Digital Fabrication, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; BA Architectural History, Yale University
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Experience
- Mettle hackathons, 2018-9; FabKids constructionist curriculum development, Fab Lab Barcelona, 2016-17
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Exhibitions
- Distributed Design Market Platform, Tala Lighting Headquarters, London, 2018; Superform, Gulbenkian Gallery RCA, London, 2017; Rueda de la Fortuna, Maker Fair, Barcelona, 2017; Smallest Portable Workstation, Fira de Barcelona, 2016; Karagiozis Project, TAF Metamatic, Athens, 2015; It's Not That Hard To Write a Book, Nobel Laureate Lounge of American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, 2015
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Awards
- Most Valuable Distributed Design for Frag Lamp, 2018; Jerome Foundation Research Fellowship into mechanics of democracy, 2015; Playwrights' Center fellowship for object dramas, 2013-2015; Burberry Trench re-design distinction, 2019
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Publications
- "Art, Science, Participation, and Passion: a presentation from the Wild Margins," Public Art St Paul, 2016; "Does Social Practice Belong in Museums?" Walker Art Center News, 2014; "If You're Thinking About Writing a Puppet Play," Playwrights' Center, 2014