http://prayas.in/ 2010-09-07T00:34:15-07:00 http://prayas.in/ http://prayas.in/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-09-04T22:48:13-07:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/start?rev=1283665693&do=diff I navigate the art, technology, design and architecture worlds through projects and research. Across the last few years, I have been working on creating diverse public conversational spaces in urban settings and making objects that challenge our self-understanding and social conditioning. text/html 2010-09-04T22:45:30-07:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/text:introducing_minefields_time?rev=1283665530&do=diff This wall-mounted object will measure the pauses in our conversations. Total of all the pauses measured will be stored by it and displayed permanently. It will play a sound when there is a silence of more than a certain duration. A flow of the logic: text/html 2010-08-16T02:43:24-07:00 Prayas Abhinav http://prayas.in/text:introducing_paper_tigers?rev=1281951804&do=diff Initial thoughts Cities are organized around ideas of prestige, social standing and manufacturing in/visibility. Successful cities never show what and who they are ashamed of. Symbolic capital and the motifs of social power actively shape urban social spaces.