Mohsin Y. K. Yousufi: projects

• LIBRARIES PROJECT Public AI Libraries Project brings AI tools to public libraries in Utah, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, building local and publicly owned AI infrastructure for public use.
• MAP SPOT Map Spot aims to develop local spaces for grassroots map-making, where people can creatively and collaboratively explore data. Map Spot aims to empower people to understand, but also challenge and even redefine the stories that maps and data tell about their lives, and about the places they live.
• EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE An ethnographic study of the design and implementation of Heat Seek program, a non-profit organization that provides tenants with heat sensors in New York City, engaging with ethics of technology in communities and questions of privacy and transparency.
• INVISIBLE WAVES Invisible Waves seeks to make the invisible signals of our connected world visible and comprehensible. It combines design and science communication to demystify and visualize how radio wave technologies work, and how we rely on them for everyday tasks.
• HEART SENSE In times of emotional intensity, a racing heart rate can feel very much out of control. At the same time, we can feel our own heartbeat, and that of others with whom we are intimate. In this manner, heart rate offers an accessible route into engaging with our bodies.
• CONVERSING WITH CLAY Can we move beyond the anthropocene in how we conceptualize interactions? This project is an exploration of human-agency and interaction through a clay and Arduino powered interactive installation through the lense of human-computer interaction, the limits of user experience (UX) and material embodiment.
• AI PEDAGOGY PROJECT How do we make informed, intentional decisions about the role of AI in the classroom? The AI Pedagogy Project helps educators engage their students in conversations about the capabilities and limitations of AI informed by hands-on experimentation.
• YARDS YARDs, or, Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters is a 14-session cross curricular STEAM program designed for 6-12 graders to teach them about disaster resiliency, community mapping, infrastructure and public advocacy.
• TRELLIS As a response to the urban growth, sky-high land prices and the problem of housing, the projects explores the potential of applying the principles of sharing-economy to architecture. Using ‘dwelling’ as its object of investigation, the project aims to question the form of dwelling in underresourced urban setting.
• URBAN DISCOURSE Urban greenways present an exciting yet contentious movement within cities. This project tracks “rails-to-tracks” discourse in 4 cities, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and New York, on Reddit.
• HUAWEI’S SAFE CITIES Report exploring the extent and scope of the Huawei’s Safe City Projects inside Pakistan. While Huawei’s interventions in Africa and other Smart Cities have garnered a lot of attention, Huawei’s involvement in Pakistan precedes all other projects carried out with speed and secrecy and in many ways served as the prototype for its more recent projects.
• JUNAIJO TOWN Carried out as a part of an Urban Open Space Design project inside the Department of Architecture at IVSAA, Karachi. This report documents the localities of Junaijo Town and Akhtar Colony inside Karachi.
• AIR An AI based, Architectural Image Recognition program capable of classifying architectural drawings against a set of 10 architects comprising of Louis Kahn, Corbusier, Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and others. The program can be used standalone, without any installation, or as part of a Rhino/Grasshopper package.