Ponder With Me!

For the final project of my ‘Design Fiction’ course, we are required to come up with a concept that promotes sustainability and an eco-friendly impact on the environment in Pakistan. There are numerous ways to explore this assignment’s objectives within a local (Pakistani) context, and I will be reflecting on some of them below as…

‘Baraka’//Blessing (1992)

Baraka is a film that was developed over the course of 14 months by Ron Fricke (American film director), released in 1992. I watched the first ten minutes of the film as a part of an assignment and I will definitely be tucking this film away like a comfort snack that you bring out when…

Breathe A Little Easier

Our planet is at the epitome of its climate change crisis at the present moment, which is why it is vital for designers, businessmen and companies big or small to think along the lines of sustainability. An important example of such green initiatives is an ongoing campaign called ‘The Smog Free Project’ (c. 2015), led…

Fantastic Beasts, We Know Where To Find Them- Lahore! (2)

Long ago, sixty years ago to be exact, there roamed beasts in the city of Lahore.  How do I know this? I found snippets of proof hidden away in my grandfather’s drawer, forgotten and about to be thrown out with the rest of the ‘junk’ in there. These two photographs show what we now consider…

Fantastic Beasts, We Know Where to Find Them- Lahore! (1)

Miro board for ideation. For a closer look, visit https://miro.com/welcomeonboard/BktK9LkpmY0dJGGAEMazB9ZfYI2zPAgLY1uwKwjC2BvnwOfTDDebftXNbq4KjCtv To start off with my mind map for this project (building a visual narrative), I thought about what kind of image I would want to construct- an illustration, or a collage/photo manipulation of found images? The latter seems daunting to me because I do not…

UF-WOAH

MY NARRATIVE: I wanted to make a fun Sci-Fi narrative. Therefore, i changed my narrative completely. My story was based on Aliens coming from another galaxy, discovering planet Earth in the Future (Image 1 and 2). However, while entering plant earth they make their Spaceships invisible and head to a certain direction on Earth (Image…

A Change

We all know about many iconic Sci-Fi movies like Star wars (Image 1), interstellar (Image 2), inception (Image 3) etc. But if you compare the number of Sci-Fi movies to the number of action movies then science fiction most certainly lacks behind. However, it is interesting to see the number of Sci-Fi movies and television…

An Escape from Mindless Escapism

Street artist Banksy’s satirical approach towards a theme park, ‘Dismaland’, is a much under acknowledged work of art. At first glance it appears to be a fictional dystopian world brought to life but as you pay attention to the details, you begin to notice....