mila t samdub
researcher / writer / designer / curator
milasamdub@gmail.com
currently: visiting fellow, information society project, yale law school; fellow, cyberbrics project, cts-fgv rio; fellow, open future
2020-2022: master of environmental design, yale school of architecture (thesis: maximum governance: managerial populism and violent infrastructures in modi's india)
2017-2018: curator, khoj international artists' association, new delhi (curated: art-science-fiction, this must be true, etc)
a few things I've written:
on tech
what would it take for digital public infrastructures to actually serve the public?, the wire, 2025
"digital public infrastructure" at a turning point: from definitions to motivations, open future foundation, 2025
what is digital public infrastructure? towards more specificity (co-authored with chand rajendra-nicolucci) tech policy press, 2024
promises and pitfalls of india's AI industrial policy, (co-authored with jyoti panday), AI nationalism(s): global industrial policy approaches to AI, AI now, 2024
the bangalore ideology, the caravan, 2023
governance interface: the index in modi's india, public culture, 2022
the archers and swordsmen of digital india: trolling as infrastructural performance, in improvised futures: encountering the body in performance edited by ranjana dave, tulika books, 2021
home cooking, real life magazine, 2018
on architecture in india
technocracy and hindutva: the architecture of governance in the new india, e-flux architecture, 2024
but does their form have an essence: on actually existing modernism, chiragh delhi, 2019
how to do things with modernist architecture, art india, 2018
troubled destinies: heritage in the time of hindutva, indian cultural forum, 2017
on tibet
oral traditions, in the penguin book of modern tibetan essays edited by tenzin dickie, penguin india, 2023
impossible but existent: tibet after the nation-state, himal southasian, 2020
