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Mar 2

Connections and Emptiness: Exploring the Affinities between Latour’s Irreductionism and Mahayana Buddhism’s Shunyata

During the pandemic, one afternoon I met up with some friends near an isolated stream surrounded by a forest. We brought along some beers and had a casual chat. It was during this gathering that my friend Dharme explained the concept of Kshunyatha (Emptiness) to me. I was vaguely familiar…

Bruno Latour

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Connections and Emptiness: Exploring the Affinities between Latour’s Irreductionism and Mahayana…
Connections and Emptiness: Exploring the Affinities between Latour’s Irreductionism and Mahayana…
Bruno Latour

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Nov 13, 2022

The unbearable weight of speaking well of our local designs

Avoiding category mistakes in design research (and in life) — Since the beginning of my formal design education, I happened to have been exposed to and intervened several times with design practices unique to Sri Lankan cultures. Regardless of the nature of this interaction — whether it be a minor assignment, a major research inquiry, or a design intervention —…

Design

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The unbearable weight of speaking well of our local designs
The unbearable weight of speaking well of our local designs
Design

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Oct 7, 2022

Designing a nationality

Historical lessons from Turkish national identity to Sri Lankans — One of my friends who live in Singapore started a Saturday morning topic following his conversation with a cab driver in Singapore. “You Sri Lankans Should not have changed the name Ceylon. It was a good brand name”. …

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Designing a nationality
Designing a nationality

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Jan 22, 2021

What do I design when I don’t design?

Damien Lutz’s way of dealing with value-driven design. — “Do not get caught into this pseudo activist pressure of ‘Do something’. In the 20th century, we may have tried to change the world too quickly. It is time to think and reinterpret it. I do not say just sit, think and ignore the suffering of people, but we should…

Speculative Design

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What do I design when I don’t design?
What do I design when I don’t design?
Speculative Design

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Jun 15, 2020

Design ; A discipline of opportunity*

Is ‘All are creative’ a fact or a myth? ‘We believe everyone has the capacity to be creative’ — this is the first text you would read if you browse the homepage of Stanford — D School. This is very optimistic yet a cliche in design education in the modern…

Design Education

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Design ; A discipline of opportunity*
Design ; A discipline of opportunity*
Design Education

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Feb 8, 2020

In search of yesterday stories for tomorrow’s design

narrative culture and design anthropology of people living in an isolated village Imagine you are going to write a novel based on your life story — your past and your future. What would be its genre? What would be its beginning, climax, the story arc and the end? …

Design Anthropology

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In search of yesterday stories for tomorrow’s design
In search of yesterday stories for tomorrow’s design
Design Anthropology

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Nov 18, 2019

Emotional Lessons of Politics: Reading the 2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Campaign through Propaganda Theory.

Elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality Right now you as a Sri Lankan may be happy or unhappy with the result of the 2019 presidential election or as an outsider keen to know what happened in Sri Lanka. This is my attempt to explain and elaborate…

Sri Lanka

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Emotional Lessons of Politics: Reading the 2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Campaign through…
Emotional Lessons of Politics: Reading the 2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Campaign through…
Sri Lanka

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Sep 16, 2019

Iwo Jima of Sri Lanka ; a note worth more than 1000 rupees

What was so wrong with the 2009 1000 rupee note ?

Sri Lanka

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Iwo Jima of Sri Lanka ; a note worth more than 1000 rupees
Iwo Jima of Sri Lanka ; a note worth more than 1000 rupees
Sri Lanka

5 min read


Aug 20, 2019

Is ‘dealing with visuals’ an ethnic skill ?

A comparison between different approaches for psyops poster designs and what we can learn from them — There is a common norm when it comes to effective communication; ‘keep it simple and keep it visual’. From digital marketing to BTL, every designer practices this as the mantra of effective communication. Because humans are, by nature, very visual beings. 30% of our brains are engaged in the task…

Sri Lanka

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Is ‘dealing with visuals’ an ethnic skill ?
Is ‘dealing with visuals’ an ethnic skill ?
Sri Lanka

5 min read

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Dilina Janadith

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