Visions of culture in the era of mobility by Ranjit Makkuni


Multimedia designer, researcher, and musician Ranjit Makkuni is President of the Sacred World Foundation, an interdisplinary team of designers, scholars, artists, programmers and scientists trying to build bridges between traditional and techno cultures. He has been a leading researcher at the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), is a founding member of the explorers club of the Ivrea Interaction Design Institute, Italy and currently heads the Gandhi Multimedia Museum in New Delhi. Makkuni's recent work "The Crossing Project" focused on futuristic, mobile, multimedia and wearable technology for an in-depth presentation of India's intellectual and spiritual tradition. Learn more about this approach towards culturally reflective computing in receiver.

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