As games fundamentally create temporary worlds within which players explore alternate realities, this article highlights the merits of using games as a medium for speculation of preferred futures amongst players. While co-designing futures with marginalised communities as seen in rural India, there exist several challenges and issues such as the…

Team B&B: Thomson Muriyadan and Mahima Chandak The Service and System Design Studio at Srishti Institute of Design is a Master’s level class for Human Centered Design students that deals with designing for Platforms and Services. …

By understanding the emerging arguments about the Western way of thinking dominating design practices, I have tried to highlight its impact on social design practices in India. Based on my experiences while conducting research in rural South India, I have outlined some of the shortcomings of applying pre-given theoretical design…

Is there a relationship between Cultures and Forms of Knowledge they excel in? An examination of S.N. Balagangadara’s work, ‘Comparative Anthropology & Action Sciences: An essay on knowing to act and acting to know’, helped me formulate a response to this question. There is a strong link between cultures and…