Jakarta New York

ARCHIVES AND ARTICHOKES began as a coincidence of alliteration—a nom de plume for myself. Call it manifestation or foreshadowing, but throughout my time at Parsons School of Design, I became increasingly interested in archives: printed matter, publications, and the ways knowledge is preserved and circulated. Concurrently, my practice gravitated towards food as a cultural and historical subject, which culminated in my undergraduate thesis, Perpetually, In Fermentation.
The studio's name reflects these two ongoing interests.
ARCHIVES
represents research, reading, and writing. It is the thread that connects design to inquiry. Besides client work, we (Kiara, Krisanda, and Putrilia—all one person) are currently developing Reading as a Map (title in progress), a publication exploring memory studies, reading, and annotations.
ARTICHOKES
represent food and what can bring people together around a table. More broadly, it stands for the commercial world in which design operates. Perhaps fittingly, the process of design is similar to an artichoke, layered with increasing complexity as it is peeled back.

Today, we (as in the singular person, Kiara): 
  1. develop visual identities and brand systems for clients across different fields,
  2. run Kafe Koji,
  3. work part-time at Pears,
  4. read far too many books,
  5. étudier le français,
  6. painting,
  7. heavily considering a master’s in museology in France,
  8. and always seeking different ways of learning.

The studio exists at the intersection of research and commercial, art and design, the tangible and intangible, the physical and the screen, archives and artichokes.

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06.Human Rhythms 

New York, NY
2022-2025
Website Design

4.5 inches × 6 inches
Plywood, linen paper

Prompted by the idea of focusing on a generative topic, Human Rhythms explores how sound can be represented visually on paper. It is a collection of  “musical compositions” around Banker St., Brooklyn at ten in the morning between November 3 to November 10, 2022. The book and its system is heavily inspired by a standard musical composition book, except it is mathematically divided into more grids to denote 30-second intervals. The sounds extracted from the 7-day period reflects two separate data sets; outside happenings and neighbors’ activities. Additionally, the ambiguity of this orchestra of sounds do not give an understanding of where it reverberates spatially. Each day also produces a statistical overview that further quantifies how many seconds each sound was present throughout the day. 

1/3 Human Rhythms — Publication
2/3 Human Rhythms — Publication
3/3 Human Rhythms — Publication