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STRATA: LESSONS IN LATENCY

Mukul is a graphic designer and architect whose practice rests on the belief that the visual infrastructure of a society is a reliable indicator of the values and desires that influence the social and the political.

CONTENTS

Introduction
︎︎︎Abstract
︎︎︎Essay: Out of Field
︎︎︎Relevant Vocabulary

Section 01: Learning to See 
︎︎︎Reified Realities
︎︎︎On Photography
︎︎︎The Breaking Habits Project
︎︎︎Atlas

Section 02: Learning to Mediate
︎︎︎Interview—Rebecca Lieberman
︎︎︎Eco’s Chamber
︎︎︎Designing for the Dialectic
︎︎︎Mythologies

Section 03: Learning to Represent
︎︎︎The Reverse Colonial Project
︎︎︎Conformex
︎︎︎Visiting Designers 2020
︎︎︎Post Narrative
︎︎︎Kashmir: Metadata of a Conflict

︎︎︎Go to the Book 
 ︎︎︎Index
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PROLOGUE



Strata: Lessons in Latency / 2020
An MFA thesis by Mukul Chakravarthi, RISD GD 2020

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This thesis would be woefully incomplete without the guidance, direction and contributions of my professors, advisors, mentors and friends. Thank you all very much!



ADVISING COMMITTEE

Bethany Johns Primary Advisor, Professor, Graphic Design & Graduate Program Director

Keira Alexandra
External Thesis Critic
Partner, Work-Order
Cem Eskinazi
Secondary Thesis Advisor
Critic, Graphic Design, RISD

Rebecca Lieberman
External Thesis Advisor Graphics Editor The New York Times
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