Sessions | Exhibition
Bangalore International Centre
Panes of Heat
Kashvi Bansal
Editorial Designer·The Ken
About this session
A summer afternoon in Delhi reads 42°C on the weather app. For a street vendor selling fruit by the roadside, the experience of heat is closer to 50°C.
As the world warms, this gap between heat data and lived experience of heat continues to widen. Days feel hotter, nights offer less relief, and prolonged heat impairs the body's ability to step outdoors, work, travel, rest, and recover.
Panes of Heat translates a year of urban heat into architectural form. Two skyscrapers stand side by side: one records air temperature, the other shows felt temperature. Each window is a day in 2024, the hottest year on record globally. Each passing hour on the clock points to two different realities of the same day.
The towers are reflective of concrete spaces that hold heat long into the night. Viewers are invited to feel the contrast between recorded temperatures and what the body endures: a dynamic, uneven, and unequally distributed experience of heat.
We would like to thank Parth Bisen and Aditi Bhatt for their help in building this project.
About the speaker
Kashvi is an editorial designer at The Ken, turning complex ideas into data visuals. Based in Bangalore, she is a data enthusiast with a love for print media and human experiences. Although her work spans brand development, web design, print, publication, and data visualization, she is currently focusing on weaving together research, data, and design to build richer narratives.
She is also the author of Missing in Action, a self-driven design research project unpacking gender disparity in Indian cinema. It explores the systemic ways women's presence and contributions in the industry are limited, rooted in a belief that art and media can be powerful catalysts for social change.