When we sit in front of our screens, we seem to be alone. I, with my physical ability, am interacting through a device, a technology. I can read comments, see notifications, like posts, share pictures, or use these tools to contact the people I know in the physical world. All of these seem like a […]
Category: Action & Reflection
Action 6: Investigating digital citizenship, community building, media / social media through the actions of craft making (physical and maybe digital?), co-creation (challenging for me!). Digital Citizenship This week marks one year after one of the most distressing experiences of my life. The government shut down the internet for a whole week, while massive protests […]
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ALL IS WELL
Action 5: Video Sketch 2 1 This video started as an internal quarrel with myself. Looking back at my actions, they did not reflect my main concerns. Because I cannot talk about them from my current geographic location. Well, technically I can, but that’s a risk I’m not willing to take. Freedom of speech is […]
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Disputed Ownership
Action 5: Video Sketch 1In a group with Kimia Gholami Watch on Vimeo here In Action 3, Kimia and I worked on decolonial design and had many conversations about it afterward. Around the same time we’d came across this article by chance in The New York Times “To Protest Colonialism, He Takes Artifacts From Museums” […]
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Translating Identity
GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 4 : Step Out and Look Wider – Generation Starting Action 4, I was thinking about the concept of “Identity”. Random words came to my mind as I wrote them down: How do we identify things? taking ice as an example. Ice is frozen water, it’s cold, has a rigid […]
GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 3 : Extending and SeekingMy teammate for this Action: Kimia Gholami Action 3 was talking about extending our studios beyond our usual settings of screen / desk / room. For starters, we were prompt to choose a theoretical construct from the “stretch lexicon” document provided to us. Looking at all those […]
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TERROIR – an offering
GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 2 : TERROIR – an offeringMy teammate for this Action: Jeffrey Li For this Action, we had to design a food experience for our assigned partners. A dish that has meaning to us or our families which would be an expression of our ground that we are most identified with. For […]
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My Home, My Roots
GSMD-500 | Grad Studio 1 Action 1 : Starting from GroundMy teammate for this Action: Shankar Padmanabhan If someone asks me to tell them about my home or my home ground, I would most likely start with my country’s geography. Where it is located (the middle east), how we have come such a long way […]