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Cohort of the “Smart”

Research Open House 2020

Swati Balasubramanian, MFA Communications Design ’20
School of Design

When objects have the ability to clearly communicate with, understand, and get closer to us, the depth of these relationships grows exponentially. Cohort of the “Smart” is an attempt to investigate the promises of the techno-evolution and how deep the cohort of the ‘smart’ has infiltrated human systems. Through qualitative research methodologies, this project explores the rise of smart environments that has caused visible changes in the way people interact with the materialistic and humanistic.