Compendiums:
Curated projects by topic
Experiments in various disciplines, covering design, creative technologies, cartography, sustainability and ecology.
This is likely the most-updated compendium with current projects and experimental work featured as a part of it.
How do we use artificial intelligence, generative visuals, or models to engage with nature?
This compendium is an index of projects and workflows I have developed in my process to look for the answer to that. Have I found it?
About
Kahin Vasi
I'm an ecological designer, researcher, creative technologist and artist.
While my background is primarily in architecture, I also work in related fields. This website, especially the compendiums, is meant to give you an idea of ways in which I engage with design, climate, research and landscapes.
I have two masters degrees in vastly different contexts; each of which has contributed in distinct ways to how I use my agency as a designer and artist. A lot of my professional career has been experimental practices - after I graduated from architecture, I spent a year designing terrariums and aquariums, gradually transitioning to landscapes and sustainable design.
Everything matters.
In particular: accessibility, basic standards of wellness, and climate resilience - these are issues (or a combination of) which I engage with in nearly every project I've undertaken. Our generation cannot afford cynicism or proselytized ethics when we are faced with all the inconvenient truths of the 21st Century.
My home country, India, is among those most likely to bear the brunt of future climate shocks. Every intervention in that context must engage with securing and bolstering resilience against extreme climates and ecological degradation.
I find, however, it is not by our interventions or designs that we make the world, but with the hope, dreams, and fortitude of those we design for that the world is made.
In 2020, as an effort to share the knowledge I have picked up over several years of poring over books and articles related to climate crises, resilience and ecological systems, I have started a periodical newsletter that curates various media and practices that can be undertaken by all individuals to help in the remediation of the Earth's ecosystems - from waste management to new-age conservation.
Click on the icon or title to read a sample, or type in your email address to receive the newsletter in your inbox!