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
- 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
- Data Visualisation / Co-delivered with Henrietta Ross / London College of Communication
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
- Featured in the exhibition — Vision Unbound — curated by the NEXT & Electronic Literature Lab for Women's History Month
- Featured in Issue I of the Visualising Data newsletter curated by Andy Kirk
- Featured in the February issue of the Web Curios newsletter
- Featured in the January issue of the Best of Data for Everyone newsletter curated by Infogr8
2023
- Won a honorable mention in the Pudding Cup
- Won a Blue Elephant in Kyoorius Design Awards
- India's Best Design Project at India's Best Design Awards
- Featured in the Processing Community Catalog
- Archived in the ECPC Electronic Art collection curated by the School For Poetic Computation
2021
- Archived in Volume 4 of the Electronic Literature Collection
2020
- Featured in Issue II of the Blackslash Lit Magazine