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Akshita Sivakumar (Aki)

@moredustings.bsky.social

Asst. Professor @UCDavis Design ० Director @ Collective for Socio-Spatial and Environmental Praxis (CoSEP) ० Ph.D @UCSDComm & STS ० �

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How exciting! Congratulations, Fernando (and team)! Looks amazing! Can’t wait to check it out! ✨

30.04.2025 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Help me make sense of 6-year-olds drinking matchas & cappuccinos in this cafe. Carrying mini-me purses & coats, handing out $7 for drinks like they're about to do their taxes.

Bracing for the potential next step: Toting tiny hip flasks, taking swigs of brandy between ballet and kumon or whatever 🫠

15.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint | TechPolicy.Press Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

Miranda Gabbott writes that in a #climate crisis, the water consumption required by data centers must be scrutinized closely. Looking at a development near her home in Barcelona, she asks: By choosing #AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in #Spain jeopardize their #water tomorrow?

26.11.2024 14:38 — 👍 34    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 2
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Why moss? We embrace moss' ambiguous, downtrodden place in botanic history as a starting point for developing questions of colonial worldviews, systems of classification, and representational challenges and opportunities.

Why moss? We embrace moss' ambiguous, downtrodden place in botanic history as a starting point for developing questions of colonial worldviews, systems of classification, and representational challenges and opportunities.

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social.

In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences.

www.thinkingwithmoss.net

02.12.2024 20:06 — 👍 86    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 2

How many is too many uses of the word 'articulating’ in a book? (You can't tell a dancer that such a limit exists)

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27.11.2024 23:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear architects: Please stop designing buildings without awnings. Dear clients and construction administrators: Please stop value engineering out awnings. Saw too many drenched students this week in a new construction school with the barest of facades. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Hang on to commonsense and comfort 🌧️ 🌞...

24.11.2024 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us for a virtual open house on December 9, 12–1 pm PST. UC Davis' MFA in Design hosts research-based design across fields ranging from Human-computer Interaction to Spatial Design, with an increasing emphasis on critical design.

24.11.2024 08:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s been raining non-stop in Sacramento lately, and Glitch doesn’t have a rain parka, so this DIY a garbage-bag-and-tape parka was necessary. Held up for 3 walks and still going strong…🙃

23.11.2024 01:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Working on my first book and realizing that a future editor will have to pry these two-part titles and alliterations out of my cold, blue hands. Call it first-book rookie proclivity/indulgence, but I refuse to abandon the joy of using a few playful alliterations. 🙃

17.11.2024 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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MFA in Design - e-flux Education Please join us for a virtual open house to learn more about the UC Davis Graduate Program in Design.

Applications are open for UC Davis' MFA in Design! Enjoy a generative environment, funding opportunities, creative vitality, and mentorship in a collaborative, supportive environment. Join our virtual open house to learn more! tinyurl.com/2r5awe3f

#designeducation #design

17.11.2024 19:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Applications are open for our wonderful MFA program in UC Davis' Design Department! Lots of funding opportunities to do a diverse range of work amongst faculty committed to cultivating a generative environment with ample camaraderie. Virtual open house: www.e-flux.com/announcement...

08.12.2023 20:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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