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Technology and

Society

The Pranava Institute works across multiple impact areas in technology and its engagements with humans, social systems and politics. Explore our research work below.

Explore Our Work
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The Unboxing Tech Toolkit Series

This project uses toolkits to inform, enable reflection, and create strategies to enable a better human-tech relationship with a focus on youth. Explore our multiple modules, in different languages, facilitator guides and open resources.

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Design Beyond Deception

Using a human-centered design approach, this project combines multidisciplinary research with insights gathered from a community of practitioners to create a manual of ethical UI/UX design principles which practitioners can use to tackle deceptive design.

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Exploring Digital Joys

This project examines how young people in India experience joy online. Through a participatory workshop, it provided a space to explore the diverse joys of digital life and their visual and spatial mapping, identify digital ‘playgrounds’ where new joyful experiences emerge, understand how young people find communities online, and use participatory art and design methods to create a digital map of joyful spaces.

©2025 by The Pranava Institute.

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