Haltestelle der Zukunft

Client: Wiener Linien
Project Supervision: Veronika Egger,  is-design GmbH

A prototype of a new vandal-proof ‘bus/tram-stop of the future’ was designed and developed at Kagraner Platz. Commuters use the  integrated screen using the buttons set in raised tactile control panel  to select the required information. A tactile guidance was also provided for this stop . The technical system & the equipment were implemented by Telereal while the navigation bar and the screen information (also barrier-free/accessible) were designed by Veronika Egger from is-design GmbH and myself.

iContact

A study on emoticons – Univirtual language as a communication & socialising tool & its influences from different cultures.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility and benefits of establishing a new univirtual language – a single free universal virtual language – through research and controlled experiments on an international, virtual scale. The subject matter is not a conlang, a constructed language, but a naturally evolved and evolving combination of all of the globally accepted virtual communication elements in use today.

Speaker at Mobile Plus International Conference about my research based on Communication inVirtual Spaces ‘iCONTACT’ hosted by The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) Austria, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) Chennai. Sponsoring Partners UNESCO and IL&FS.
Credited as Anuradha Viswanathan: www.mobileplus-india.net/index.php/speakers/

 

F1 [ o ] – Help Japan

‘F1 [ o ]’ is a series of greeting cards, I designed based on my current research communication design thesis, for a competition by Design21(UNESCO) expressing the sentiment of “I’m with you!” during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster  in Japan.

Today’s generation are breaking down traditional communication methods and are finding ways to cut short the components of vocabulary. And it is those elements that form a common language thread to communicate my message in the greeting cards. And the icons and symbols form a universal tool overcoming challenges posed by language and provide communication tools to be globally understood. These icons and symbols in the greeting cards are also user friendly: They could be typed as a status message, transferred / printed on any accessory.

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Ci Vuole Lo Spazio

Ci Vuole Lo Spazio  (It needs more space)
Master Thesis Team: Anuradha Viswanathan, Elena Prokina; Space: Appartemento Lago
Thesis Supervisor: Francesca Benedetto, Yellow Office, www.yellowoffice.it

Ecosystem in Miniature with Yellow Office

Part of Master Course in ‘Interior Design Special Edition: ‘Contemporary Living’ Milan, Italy from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy

Balconies are a conjunction point, where two very different habitats meet: Juxtaposition of the inSide and the outSide. InSide is man-made, man-controlled domicile and the outSide is the nature-weather conditionedscapes. The space dedicated to a balcony is very less. If one chooses to have a lot of plants in these balconies, he forfeits the usage of other activities for the lack of space.

Our own project, Appartamento Lago, located in the prestigious design District, facing Via Brera, has balconies that measures as little as 70cm x 225cm.

Interview Key Points

The balcony must invoke curiosity through choice and shape of plants and different plant arrangements. And thereby bringing attention and creating a focal point. It could act as vitrine-showcase and stimulate design conversations.

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Design solutions for pink balconettes facing the Via Brera:

1. BRACCIOVERDE
Inspired by the flexibility of the arms of common household table lamp this could be a playful space saving element in your balcony.

2. PONTEVERDE
As the name suggests, it bridges the two balconies to save space. Ponteverde can also act as a communication tool between two balconies  of different owners when they share responsibility of a moving garden in between. Maybe the neighbour can water the plants while you are away!

3. TERRA-BITE
You can have your garden and eat it too!

TerraBite is born out of the idea to facilitate a mini flower / vegetable garden by providing extra movable terra-space in small balconies. The unit is shifted up and stays up till the balcony is in use and brought down to be watered and when the balcony is empty.

The Unit consists of a metal-wire mesh, that lets the water seeps throught the mud, to the water drawers storage, which helps reusing the water. The unit is also fitted with solar panels, atop the metal scissor fork lift. This solar panels then transforms photons to energy that lights the bottom of the unit.

Design solutions for yellow balcony in the interior courtyard:

STACK-UP! Set of three trays stacked on top of another fixed to the balcony railing
1 Clothes hanger (Day Time / semi private space)
2 Tray with provision for holding  small plants (All time)
3 Tray with provision for holding cups/glasses, candle & ash tray (Party Time)
Trays can be combined in different combinations to suit the user.

Blind Wall Installation

Team: Anuradha Viswanathan, Elena Prokina
Concept: Anna Barbara; Studio: Via Piranesi
Project Link: Blind Wall

Responsibilities: To create interesting formations with a colleague with the remains of jeans from a factory outlet for possible exhibition at the Salone Internazinale del Mobile 2011. The formation was approved and executed as an installation by Via Piranesi for Milano Design Week premiering 13 April 2011.

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Via Piranesi – Playing Card Deck

Client: Studio ViaPiranesi
Project: Corporate Design

Designed and created a unique, branded set of playing cards (56) for Via Piranesi, an architectural and exhibition design studio, keeping in mind the studio’s unique logo and font. The cards showcases the studio’s project portfolio in an elegant and interactive way on the back of the cards, for use as promotional tools for the company’s core client base.

Via Piranesi Playing card deck

Via Piranesi Playing card deck

 

Stazioni Futuro Exhibition

Project Head: Anna Barbara & Luca Poncellini
Architectural Studio: Via Piranesi
Project Link: Esperienza Italia

Responsibilities: To conceive and deliberate with team as well as superiors and develop initial designs for interior spaces (Cluster of cubes of Fibonacci Sequence) for  Stazione Futuro in ‘Esperienza Italia 150’.

Stazione Futuro is one of the key exhibition, part of Experienza Italia 150, celebrating 150 years of Italian unification. The exhibit is a journey that starts in the present day and leads into Italy’s future. The items are narrated using sophisticated languages such as multimedia, 3-D videos, holograms and augmented reality and are grouped according to relevant areas.

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Jadeluck Hunter Boots

Client: Jadeluck Boots, Japan
Project Supervision: Ludovica Brigalli, Via Piranesi

Created a design pattern under senior colleague for Men & Women for Jadeluck Boots, a Japanese footwear company.
Design approved. Now in production.

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Smokin’ – Sound Design Installation

Project Team: Sorawit Klaimark, Paride Piccinini, Anuradha Viswanathan
Sound Design Project Tutors: Anders Petter Andersson, Fredrik Oloffson
Part of Master Course in ‘Interior Design Special Edition: ‘Contemporary Living’ Milan, Italy from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy

I worked with two other students to experiment with various sensors, by making an inanimate everyday object, an Ashtray on a garbage bin, interact, combining  music, sound design, interaction design, experience design and service design using Arduino guided by Sweden’s most experienced interactive sound furniture designers as our faculty.

We also included a social message through the object i.e. The Ashtray coughs when it senses too much heat (through cigarette butts). The prototype was placed inside the school campus and caused quite a stir.

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