Sessions | Exhibition
Bangalore International Centre
Klimate Kundli
Nithya Kirti
Designer·ShikshaLokam
About this session
Klimate Kundli is an interactive exhibit that generates a takeaway, personalised climate horoscope based on a visitor’s inputs of their birth year and the places they have lived. It seeks to reframe climate data away from abstraction and toward memory, place, and everyday life by inviting visitors to encounter and reflect on their data as personal and generational climate experiences.
A Klimate Kundli simulates the act of interpreting a birth chart by an astrologer through data visualisations of climate change that visitors have likely lived through and also suggests some remedies, inviting reflections on the gap between personal gestures and planetary-scale climate action.
About the speaker
Nithya is a creative practitioner with an evolving practice spanning visual design, illustration and digital product design. She is currently working as a design generalist shaping the narrative, product and visual design of a non-profit impacting 200,000+ public schools in India through open-source technology.
With a background in Experience Design and Humanities, she aims to bring transdisciplinary approaches and humour to shape projects into moments of critical reflection on technology and culture.
This exhibit marks Nithya's first foray into dataviz after a longstanding love-hate relationship with numbers.