Heading 1

DIMENSIONS OF DEATH

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer, death egg

What dies, who dies, which part of us dies?

or do 'we' really die at all?

Explore Perspectives

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer, Study on death, Banaras, kashi

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer

Graphic Guide Glow Sign on Main Board Ou

Children explore melodic passages by ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer, air tabla

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer, musical chairs

Children's learning workshops, at

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

See students' experiences

Dimensions of Death

Children's Workshop, Music and Goddess

The Unity Pillar installation focuses exploration into collaborative interfaces.

It requires people to hold hands to light up a pillar symbolizing the destruction of caste prejudices and social in justice. Here the computer has totally disappeared and people themselves have become the interface, touching each other, touching loving, human hands, not objects, dissolving the skins of their otherwise separate bodies into a single, unified collaborative body.

collaborative interfaces by ranjit makkuni

Eternal Gandhi

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2006

SEE HISTORY IN THE MAKING

DISMANTLE ALL BOUNDARIES

Eternal Gandhi @ National Gallery.

plant computer ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer

Against the rapid rise of infrastructure building activity and urbanization in Asia, which has resulted in a exponential degradation of people’s health and environment, the Planet Health museum project commits to the urgent documentation of traditional Green Worldviews, Ayurveda and Yoga, indigenous systems of medicine and therapies, so that traditional knowledge, which has been ubiquitously available and passed down across many generations, remains forever free.

Say No!
to
Toxic computing!!

ranjit Makkuni, museum design, leading asia designer, planet health museueu

toxic indian city, pollution, Ranjit Makkuni

World's first walk-up

Health Dictionary!

See the EXHIBITION

Planet Health Museum

Healing the Hyperconnected Man

Goddesses of Music

Healing the

Hyper connected Man

Prayer to Heal Modern Hyperconnected Man.

Winner A Award,
Design Italy

Healing the Hyper connected Man

Ranjit Makkuni, dont let computers tell you you arent good enough

See the talk

So here's the big take-away:

Can we Design

a more Compassionate Web?

The Betrayal of the IT Revolution

For those of us who have missed the IT revolution, consider yourselves lucky,

we may not have missed a thing!

Abstract

When the original vision of the Dynabook (later to become the laptop) was conceived by Alan Kay's team at Xerox PARC in the 1980s, computational tools were envisioned as a medium for creativity and leisure. Indeed the first slides of the Dynabook showed people freeing themselves from the shackles of their offices, lying in sprawling natural landscapes, pursuing their artistic creativity.

Nearly 50 years later, that vision had become a nightmare, with deep impacts on the society: at levels of connection, health, psychological well being, and, deep questions to privacy and fundamental freedoms and 'Truth' loom and await answers.

THE BETRAYAL of the IT REVOLUTION

Ranjit Makkuni

Talk at WSIS conference, Geneva, 2018

Betrayal of the IT Revolution

test%2520kala4_edited_edited (3) (3).png

test%20kala5_edited (wecompress.com).jpg

Conversations on

Design & Asian Music

Listen to the conversations on Design and Music

Conversations on Asian Music and Design

gray-concrete-pathway-between-red-and-bl

Eulogy to a MENTOR

vlcsnap-2019-08-17-15h07m04s023_edited_e

Rand Castile Eulogy

See Talk & Performance

With a musical performance
of
Uma's bells

Eulogy to Asian arts' Guru

Crossing Project

The Crossing project, a multimedia exhibition shown across the world, was and still is a pioneering effort to unite the finest and the noblest in Indian tradition with the then, nascent multimedia and mobile computing technology.

The focus of the project was to create a unique idiom of Indian modernity where none of the streams of knowledge, technology or tradition were at variance, but integrated in a harmonious semblance. It is in this consciously innovated fusion that Banaras gets represented in a unique way, and the project becomes an important cultural preservation tool and a learning tool for audiences.

Crossing exhibition by Ranjit Makkuni, Asia Design

Asia Society Museum,

New York, 2002

OK Center for the Arts,

Linz, Austria, 2002

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Habitat Center, New Delhi

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

India, 2001/2

National Gallery, Bangkok, 2005

THE CROSSING PROJECT

SEE HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Winner

ID magazine

Design award, New York,

2002

Ars electronica, Austria,

2002

Intellectual Traditions of Banaras

Intellectual Traditions of Banaras

Throughout the centuries literature and cities have shared a special symbiotic relationship. Modern metropolitan cities carry the complexity and tension of modern life. The creativity they inspire bears a special genre of literature of discontent and tension conflict and existential angst. In comparison Kashi, Banaras, the ancient city of enlightenment, revels in a generative environment of traditional learning. As early as the 7th century B C, the sacred city became the focal point of increased intellectual and spiritual activity. And since then, has flourished as one of the greatest centers of traditional learning and of established theological and philosophical discourse.

From Makkuni. R., and Khanna, M., "Banaras: The Crossing Project," Sacred Word Foundation, 2002.

See the contributions of Asia's finest minds.

Eternal Gandhi @ Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi

SEE HISTORY IN THE MAKING

ranjit makkuni salt march painting eternal gandhi

The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, one of the world’s first digital multimedia museums is located at Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi the site where Mahatma attained martyrdom, it not only preserves the historical events of Gandhiji’s life, but presents a spectrum of information technology visions inspired by Gandhian thought.

Spiritually, the project was situated against the backdrop of globalization, polarization of communities, a growing urban-rural divide, rapid urbanization, and the degradation of hand-based skills and village-based art forms.