It’s been a crazy last 6 hours! We went back and forth on a bunch of ideas for our final concept, including all kinds of crazy things, most notably an interactive balloon in the sky that communicates the health of a neighbourhood. We even storyboarded a potential scenario and made a journey map

In this article, we discuss the literature on the topic we read and how it informed the direction of our work Social Capital and HCI Normally, when we think about assets, or things that can be used to make other things, we think of machinery, workers etc. However, the theory…

Introduction In the recent “Probing into Services, Systems and Infrastructures” Studio at Srishti, our team of students in the M.Des in Human Centred Design Programme looked at the relationship between domestic help and employers within the context of gated community management apps. We then helped to develop a tool that we…

Introduction I saw this tweet from Rahul while my exams were going on at Srishti, where I am studying my Master’s in Human Centred Design I was interested, so I looked a bit more at Uncommon’s website, and saw that they were a design studio that seemed working on some…

Widespread fears of AI and automation taking away jobs are overblown, but so is the conceit that AI is only good for automating routine, low level tasks. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between. AI is what Erik Brynjollfson at MIT calls a “general purpose technology” — like electricity…