Index — A Living Studio / Bengaluru → Elsewhere

Researching systems. Documenting culture. Building tools.

The Map / Network of Inquiries

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Kaavalar
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Bangalore Lake Systems
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Blockchain Food Chains
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FIELD 4
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A Declining Commons
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TheCycles
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CJ Interiors
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Music Practice
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Teaching
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Writing
Work Theme
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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.

Investigation — Active

Kaavalar: Protecting Sandalwood Ecosystems

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."

Close-up of sandalwood tree bark in soft natural light.
KAV.01 / Environmental Documentation
Hand-drawn ledger of food supply chain nodes on aged paper.
Prototype Ref. A
A Bangalore lake at dawn — marsh grasses, still water, distant apartment towers under overcast sky.
System Framework
Featured Works — Independent Projects

A body of work.

Four projects across documentary, urban ecology, sound design, and product research. Each is its own work, with its own questions and outcomes.

WAVES — adaptive psychoacoustic platform: abstract waveform visualisation in deep indigo and warm clay tones.
P.04 · Product · Psychoacoustics · Mental Health

P.04 · Product · Psychoacoustics · Mental Health

WAVES

Waveform Activated Vestibular Emotional System — an adaptive psychoacoustic platform designed to support emotional regulation, attention, and nervous-system recovery through intelligent sound environments.

Year
2024 — Ongoing
Role
Design Lead · Researcher
Place
Studio
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Fragments — A Working Notebook

Field notes, in passing.

A commonplace book of photographs, audio snippets, quotes, reading notes, and small observations. The pieces that don't yet belong elsewhere.

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Photograph2024.11.07 · Kaavalar

First frost on a sandalwood seedling, Tumkur. The guardians said this hadn't happened in their lifetime.

Field Audio2024.11.02 · Sound

Two minutes of crickets at the Cauvery basin's edge, recorded just before the rain broke.

Quote2024.10.30 · Practice

"The opposite of extraction is not preservation. It is participation." — overheard at a workshop.

Reading Note2024.10.18 · Reading

Anna Tsing — the mushroom is not a metaphor. Collaborative survival is the unit of analysis.

Photograph2024.10.04 · Commons

Madiwala lakebed at blue hour. The water line from last year's monsoon is still faintly visible on the parapet.

Sketch2024.09.21 · Hardware

Third revision of the mesh-node housing. The hinge is wrong. Will try a continuous fold next.

Listening Note2024.09.05 · Sound

Pauline Oliveros on the difference between hearing and listening. Listening is a choice; hearing is not.

Observation2024.08.27 · Field

Every weaver I spoke to this week mentioned the price of yarn before I had asked a single question.

Screenshot2024.08.15 · Lakes

Bangalore lake map, 1973 vs 2023. Forty-six lakes gone. Twelve absorbed into apartment complexes.