konark:
konark is a development process that converges several forms of cellular technology with dense urban mobility in emerging economies:
the gps [global positioning system], the gsm cellular phone networks and the internet. The project is being developed prospectively  for application in solar powered electric vehicles for Mumbai such as buses and taxis.

konark draws its name from the temple to Surya, the sun god at Konark in Orissa, India;
the 13th century temple now mired and sinking under its weight, still shows the 24 wheels of the sungod's chariot. Today the phenomena of mobility places as heavy a burden on the earth and on society as the polluted log-jammed arteries of our cities testify.

Large gaps open between the virtual world where increasingly key cultural communication and information is exchanged and transformed and, the material world which has to sustain us.

In these gaps, inherent potential of new ecologies emerge that depend on the integration of social tools and their means of interaction.
konark draws a parallel between the 24 wheels of the sungod's chariot and the 24 gps satellites that orbit the earth to point to the evolution of new social entities both at a personal and societal level.


konark is being developed in association with electric vehicle manufacturers and public transport operators and the D J Sanghvi College Of Engineering in Mumbai.