Priti Pandurangan

Hello there, I’m Priti — an Information Experience Designer currently based in London, UK. My practice seeks to understand heritage and culture through evocative, data-enriched interpretations.

I discovered my interest in working with archives as a form of data during a project that visualised the rich cultural history of seating and its intricate associations.

To pursue this further, I packed up my life and shifted to London to join the Master’s program in Design for Data Visualisation at the University of the Arts, London.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at UAL; it expanded my perspective on what data visualisation can be and who has agency in its creation. The course helped advance my trans-disciplinary practice, providing me with both the space & confidence to engage in critical making across a range of media & materials, from traditional print techniques to code & creative electronics. My weekly UAL journal documents these misadventures for posterity.

For my thesis, I developed Atlas of Intangibles, a practice and platform to observe, collect & map the everyday intangible and subjective experiences of our shared urban spaces.

Prior to UAL, I worked as an Information Design researcher at Gramener’s Storylabs team in Bangalore. There, I focused on developing tools & techniques for data visualisation and storytelling. I’m proud of the work we accomplished as a small team: we created data comics, incorporated narrative techniques into data visualisations, experimented with data art as a playful approach to creating personalised mementos, and designed interactive physicalisations to encourage discourse around critical topics.

In my spare moments, I like going on data walks, making generative art, tinkering around with electronics, making oddly-shaped books, and dreaming about the possibility of building a generative loom someday.

Talks & Showcase

2024

  • Atlas of Intangibles / Eurasian Dataviz Conference
  • Data Visualisation show & tell / Set Reset
  • Visualising archives / Masterclass / Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology

2023

  • Atlas of Intangibles / London Data Visualisation meet-up
  • Joyful Data / Future of Coding, London
  • Guest speaker / London College of Communication
  • Subjective Objects / London College of Communication

2022

  • Data art & storytelling / Gramener

2021

  • Asking a Shadow to Dance / ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS conference
  • Joyful Data / Creative Coding santé
  • Asking a Shadow to Dance / Typography Day conference

2020

  • Guest speaker / Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
  • Asking a Shadow to Dance / Co-Po-Jam, dra.ft festival
  • Ink on Paper / Processing Community Day

2019

  • Let’s Put a Pin on It / Data Room / Agami Summit
  • Guest speaker / National Institute of Design, Bangalore
  • Come, Let’s Take a (Data) Selfie / UX India
  • Asking a Shadow to Dance / Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
  • Asking a Shadow to Dance / Bangalore International Center

Workshops

2024

2023

  • Data Ethics & Data Advocacy / Co-delivered with Henrietta Ross & Carla Fernández Arce / Information Plus conference, Edinburgh

2022

  • Explorable Narratives / Gramener

2020

  • Making the Thing that Makes the Thing / p5.js teach
  • Making the Thing that Makes the Thing / Processing Community Day, India
  • Data comics workshop / Co-organised with Storylabs / Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

2019

  • Data comics workshop / Co-organised with Storylabs / Grofers, Bangalore

Appreciation

2024

2023

2021

  • Archived in Volume 4 of the Electronic Literature Collection

2020

  • Featured in Issue II of the Blackslash Lit Magazine