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KIRAN KULKARNI
Design Leadership


Five Prototypes, Five Ways of Seeing
Notes from a season of testing, making, and listening Over the past few months, I found myself moving between very different kinds of...
kiran kulkarni
Jul 86 min read


Temple of Time: A Designer’s Pilgrimage to Somanathpura
I left Bangalore at 9 a.m. on a clear, crisp morning, my heart already racing with the anticipation of what lay ahead. Design,...
kiran kulkarni
Aug 14, 20243 min read


Rethinking Architecture's Impact: Healing, Apologies, and Responsibility
Listen to Anna Heringer One of these talks, the purview of this article, began with deliberating the very meaning of mending, apropos...
kiran kulkarni
Aug 13, 20237 min read


Coming out of the box called Modernism
In 1996, I eagerly enrolled in an Architecture school nestled within the vibrant city of Bangalore. Little did I know that the physical...
kiran kulkarni
May 25, 202310 min read


Settlers of Konkan
I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the...
kiran kulkarni
Jun 6, 20224 min read


Dying archetypes
Archetype is A perfect or typical specimen An original model or pattern; prototype Content of the collective unconscious The constantly...
kiran kulkarni
Apr 24, 20222 min read


Designing an eco-sensitive, inclusive Steiner school in 50 days
“We want to shift our school with 125 children to a new temporary place in less than 2 months, can you help us design this?” asked the...
kiran kulkarni
Apr 23, 20229 min read
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