“I am a passionate designer who likes the big questions as well as the small after effects.

I enjoy the challenge of conversion from the idea to the tangible, affecting on its way both market and meaning.

I enjoy the fact the design contends with both the explicit as well as the implicit, celebrating in its outcome cultural codes of value and quality.

I like to stretch the notions of how overarching the role of design can be in its width and depth, especially at this crucial juncture where we ask, ‘do we progress to solve, or regress to survive?’.”

The final reckoning is quality.

• Bridging the Mind-Body Duality by Design. The research factored the use of an ecological approach to understand perception and cognition, or Embodied Cognition in short. Several case studies and examples were found that had affinities to the area of design. A rudimentary framework was created as an attempt to see how aspects Embodied Cognition can be deliberately applied to bring our bodies into larger play as a factor of design.
• The Quantified Self: and other Emerging Confluences Between Data + Design. The research attempted to identify confluences between the data intensive aspect of our technological present, and Design. Various thematic confluences were identified and mapped into a taxonomy for better understanding of how design discipline needs to scale up to accommodate a ‘quantified’ future.
• The Moving Loci of Aesthetics in Design. The research is a probe into ‘what?’ constitutes aesthetics in the contemporary sense. The research identifies seven progressions from the classical notion of aesthetics that addressed unity and form, to use of semantics and, to cognitive, to algorithmic, to neural, to psychic notions, all of them identified with examples and attributes. The research also forecast a speculative future dimension based on a ‘deep ecological system view of life’.