Pakistan Marine Life Sanctuary & Research Centre

For the final project for my 'Design Fiction' class, I wrote a proposal essay detailing the need for a Marine Life Sanctuary in Pakistan.

Marine & Wild Life in Pakistan

This is an update on my final project- I have decided on researching and proposing marine and wild life sanctuaries in Pakistan in an attempt to promote the sustainability and enhancement of Pakistan’s ecosystem. You can find my Miroboard here. A wild life sanctuary is a place where animals, especially those who are endangered, are…

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…

A Utopian but dystopian society.

The title of my project is “A Utopian but Dystopian Society” which means an imaginative society. It is a piece of land out of nowhere and it’s dark everywhere. Having said that, I added a few cultural aspects to it such as masonry brick buildings as well as poles, trash can etc.  It is an…

Saks Afridi; his world of contemporary art

Saks Afridi, a multi-disciplinary artist who primarily emphasis on Sufi poetry, Islamic mythology, architecture and calligraphy etcetera. He mainly explores the historical and cultural narratives with contemporary art which he says gives him a sense of belonging with his roots, after all he’s a Pakistani artist living in New York. To begin with, I would…

A Utopia; an absence of speculative fiction within the local industry

Speculative Fiction is a codified human imagination in a story. It is a broad category of fiction embracing certain genres with certain elements that do not exist in the global history, observing current phenomena of the universe as well as encompassing various themes such as futuristic, supernatural and many other extramundane imaginative concepts.  For this particular…

‘Taxi Cab’

With approximately fifty-five thousand taxis and taxi drivers in Mumbai, there is a present need to make the taxi experience more lively and memorable than it currently is -- and that’s where ‘Taxi Fabric’ comes in. Gaurav Ogale's 'Cutting'. Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sanketavlani/taxi-fabric-a-unique-platform-for-designers-in-mum Taxi Fabric is a project that aims to bring a splash of colour to…

A Closer Look into ‘Space Mosque’ by Saks Afridi

Saks Afridi’s work ‘Space Mosque’ is a refreshing look into human nature and its repetitive patterns of greed. The latter allows the audience space to reflect on whether it is socially responsible to assign the blame for violence all around the world to majorly one religion- Islam. This actively but gently adds an anti-Islamophobic connotation…

Future of Sci-Fi within the Local Film Industry

When it comes to the production of digital content, the local Pakistani film industry is far behind. No doubt, cinemas have been revived over the last few years, providing local content. Some of it is actually quality content but the rest of it is just profit-oriented and commercial content. Despite the prevailing circumstances, my main…