New book out with Amsterdam University Press
FemLab, the Feminist Futures of Work initiative I co-founded with Usha Raman kickstarted 2023 with the book launch at Spui25 in Amsterdam. This was followed with a retreat on Building Labor futures to engage deeper with the essays in this book. We are absolutely thrilled to see this book out and its final digital version…
New Book Contract with MIT Press/Harper Collins India
Am incredibly excited to share the big news on my new book, ‘Next Billion Ready: Designing systems to include the world,’ in contract with two fabulous publishers – The MIT Press & Harper Collins India . This comes at a perfect time as I have been awarded the residency fellowship at Bellagio, Italy by Rockefeller…
Speeding into the new year
So much has happened since the start of this year. I have that feeling of running to stand still. Beautiful experiences, powerful conversations, ah ha moments, deep discussion and yet, have not been able to fully digest these times, to appreciate their full impact on me as work has exponentially increased. And yet we do…
Reflecting on 2021 and beyond
The end of 2021 was different and yet the same. I wrapped up the year with some amazing experiences, from a wonderful launch podcast on Fragile Futures to finally the in person COP26 conference on Design for Planet. Here I spoke about the challenges of pitting digital inclusivity of the next billion users against the…
FemTech designs for the next billion
I am delivering a keynote for NetHope’s 20th Anniversary Global Summit on Digital Now /Future of Work with a feminist view of the rising Next Billion Users, their world of work, and the responsibilities by vested stakeholders. I will shed light on the burgeoning industry of femtech and what this means for inclusive design. This…
UNHCR grant on Digital leisure & Displaced populations in Brazil
Am delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Digital Leisure and Displaced populations in Brazil’ project with John Warnes and Erika Perez Iglesias from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Innovation Services. “Bringing to light the divide in access to digital leisure challenges the sacred tenet on which the global digital project has been built upon…
FemLab taking shape
What a journey it has been with FemLab.Co, an IDRC funded initiative that Usha Raman and I kick started in January 2020, right before the pandemic. Our work involves the very people who have been the most affected by covid19 – marginalized and precarious women workers in the Global South struggling to make a living…
#DesignUpForACause
As the second wave in India unfolds with disastrous consequences and with my continued distance from family, colleagues, and friends in India, I am grateful that the design community has come up with a small way for me to contribute! The organization DesignUp has stepped up and has succeeded in getting an online event #DesignUpForACause…
Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us
The AI solutions championed by tech titans promise to repeat a toxic history of self-defined goodness. My Opinion piece is out in the Rest of World Imagine a world with no elephants. Resolve, a nonprofit committed to ending poaching of endangered animals, warns that this fiction could become fact in a mere decade, as an…
My review of Wilkerson’s Caste book in NRC
Today, my review on Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist’s book ‘Caste: the lies that divide us’ is out in the NRC news media outlet in Dutch. Below is the English version. ———————————— Is this the ‘Book of the Century’ or a dangerously seductive tale? Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a bible for this divisive…
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Payal Arora 