Firki – Objects of Transient Belongings
Firki* celebrates the colourful, diverse visual language of hand-painted signs in India’s public spaces. The project playfully captures their transient essence through multiple designed objects, highlighting voices and narratives while documenting and archiving them. Firki takes you down memory lane embedded in a cultural heritage often overlooked as everyday ephemera.
‘Objects of transient belongings’ refer to the temporal visual elements of a cityscape that get replaced by more modern techniques and outcomes. Despite that, hand-painted signs belong to the collective memory and identity of spaces and the people navigating them.
The project outcome is divided into explore, celebrate and distribute. Each part showcases specific experiments with objects as an intervention, capturing the celebratory nature of the Indian graphic design style.
*Firki (n) A hand-made paper pinwheel found on the streets of India.
