{"id":10831,"date":"2026-05-04T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:07:48","slug":"beyond-gridlocks-envisioning-the-future-of-bangalores-traffic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2026\/beyond-gridlocks-envisioning-the-future-of-bangalores-traffic-culture","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Gridlocks: Envisioning the Future of Bangalore&#8217;s Traffic Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":1pd\" class=\"Am aiL Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Message Body\" aria-controls=\":1uh\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n<div>Namma ORRoville is a speculative design project set along Bangalore&#8217;s Outer Ring Road in 2060, where traffic shaped the urban fabric, western dominant tech absorbed it, and an entire population learned to call their entrapment a promotion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>I design a manual which is provided to every new employee (I deliberately say employee, not resident) who has &#8220;made it&#8221; to ORRoville. It dictates their employment class, what they are rewarded for in return for their loyalty to completing outsourced work, and the &#8220;honor and privilege&#8221; of working for these companies.<\/div>\n<div id=\":1pd\" class=\"Am aiL Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Message Body\" aria-controls=\":1uh\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>This work draws from various disciplines including the social sciences, urban design, environmental sustainability and more, raising questions that are ever so pertinent. It touches upon themes of the effects of colonialism and western centric viewpoints even today,\u00a0 ethical frameworks and their necessity in tech, and more.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namma ORRoville is a speculative design project set along Bangalore&#8217;s Outer Ring Road in 2060, where traffic shaped the urban fabric, western dominant tech absorbed it, and an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1392],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1402"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}