Index — A Living Studio / Bengaluru → Elsewhere
Each node is a thread of investigation. Hover to surface its connections — themes, methods, and adjacent works that have shaped or been shaped by it.
The Catalogue
An inquiry into ecological stewardship through community-centered design. We explore the intersection of indigenous knowledge and distributed sensor networks to preserve at-risk environments.
"Technology here serves not as a replacement for tradition, but as a sentinel for it."
Four projects across documentary, urban ecology, sound design, and product research. Each is its own work, with its own questions and outcomes.
P.01 · Documentary Film · Research
A long-form documentary investigating disappearing commons, ecological transitions, and labour in rapidly urbanising South India. Includes sub-projects Washing Rituals and Silent Shuttles.
P.02 · Research · Urban Ecology
Examining Bengaluru's historic lake systems and the changing relationship between water, ecology, and the city. A study in stewardship, planning, and collective futures.
P.03 · Ambisonics · Sonic Heritage
A spatial audio project documenting the sonic identity of streets, markets, and public spaces — sound as cultural archive.
P.04 · Product · Psychoacoustics · Mental Health
Waveform Activated Vestibular Emotional System — an adaptive psychoacoustic platform designed to support emotional regulation, attention, and nervous-system recovery through intelligent sound environments.
A commonplace book of photographs, audio snippets, quotes, reading notes, and small observations. The pieces that don't yet belong elsewhere.
Open the archive →First frost on a sandalwood seedling, Tumkur. The guardians said this hadn't happened in their lifetime.
Two minutes of crickets at the Cauvery basin's edge, recorded just before the rain broke.
"The opposite of extraction is not preservation. It is participation." — overheard at a workshop.
Anna Tsing — the mushroom is not a metaphor. Collaborative survival is the unit of analysis.
Madiwala lakebed at blue hour. The water line from last year's monsoon is still faintly visible on the parapet.
Third revision of the mesh-node housing. The hinge is wrong. Will try a continuous fold next.
Pauline Oliveros on the difference between hearing and listening. Listening is a choice; hearing is not.
Every weaver I spoke to this week mentioned the price of yarn before I had asked a single question.
Bangalore lake map, 1973 vs 2023. Forty-six lakes gone. Twelve absorbed into apartment complexes.