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1. Visual Experiments

Audio-visual montages guided by intuition and active imagination
iMovie, Premiere Pro
2016 - OngoingA practice of intuitive editing, where footage is gathered without agenda and later assembled in response to sound. Meaning emerges through rhythm, juxtaposition, and emotional resonance rather than narrative logic. Often sparked by music-induced states of active imagination, the process favors curiosity over clarity, and feeling over form. Found, filmed, and felt — these videos function as low-stakes portals into inner worlds and cultural drift. 


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2. Frankendining by BoneAppleTeeth Collective

A speculative dining set exploring physical play, absurdity, and ritual through the subversion of familiar tools.
Frankenchair, Frankentable, Frankenfork.
Found objects, metalworking, woodworking, rubber & textile
AcrossRCA, 2025
Frankendining is a trio of objects created by BoneAppleTeeth - a collaborative effort between designers from diverse disciplines. Merging surrealism with functional parody, the Frankenchair, Frankentable, and Frankenfork propose alternative eating rituals through exaggerated ergonomics and comical friction. The set playfully disorients the act of dining, prompting users to question the designed norms of mealtime behavior and bodily performance.


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3. This must be the place

Keychain
Hand-hammered scrap aluminum, keyring
2025A quiet meditation on the idea of home as something transient, inherited, and longed for.

Made from discarded aluminum, this keychain is both artifact and anchor - a small act of claiming space in a life shaped by borrowed ones.


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4. Butcher’s blockAn investigation into material resistance, violence, and the aesthetics of process. 
Insulation Foam, Knife, FLStudio
November 2025
Butcher’s Block is a spatial installation that explores the performative and symbolic potential of material manipulation. Using a single, oversized mermaid knife, a stool is carved out of red-stained insulation foam and placed inside a sealed cardboard enclosure. Viewers are invited to observe the outcome through keyholes, accompanied by layered sound recordings that document the cutting process. 


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5. A secret third thing

An exploration of integration, vulnerability, and mediated ideals of beauty.
Vintage Fitness Book, Mixed Media
Feb 2025 - Ongoing This evolving project intervenes in a 1980s vintage fitness manual, a relic of hypermasculine ideals, with journal-based reflections that expose a more fragile and introspective counterpoint. The annotated pages juxtapose sculpted bodies and performative strength with hand-written entries and drawings that grapple with self-doubt, vulnerability, and internal complexity. Through this process, the work navigates the tension between societal aesthetics and personal emotional landscapes.


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Not Science Not Art
Nikhar (Navya) Yadav

nikharalt@gmail.com
instagram.com/notscinotart/
medium.com/@nikharyadav1911 notscinotart is an independent design and research practice founded by Nikhar Yadav, a London-based artist/designer/writer currently pursuing her Master’s at the Royal College of Art. 
Her multidisciplinary background — spanning professional kitchens, urban farms and superapps — informs an experimental approach that values the tactile and the technological in equal measure.

Positioned between product design, creative engineering, cognitive science and behavioural psychology, the work explores how ‘meaning’ is constructed in the interactions between objects, environments, and inner human narratives & how these boundaries can be played with to create progressive tools that are meaningful to their users. 


Projects take form as physical artefacts, video essays, product-tools & spatial installations. Rather than offering solutions, notscinotart works on prompts, containers, and tangible provocations that invite users into a deeper engagement with self and space. 

Education
MA Design Products 
Royal College of Art

Bachelors in Management Studies
SSCBS, Delhi University


Employment Associate Product Designer
Paytm
Jan 2022 - July 2024

Design Intern
Paytm
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

Marketing, Visuals, Events, Comms
Krishi Cress 
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020

Kitchen Apprentice
ROOH New Delhi
May 2019 - July 2019


Skills
Conceptual & Research
- Critical & Systems Thinking
- Speculative Design
- Phenomenological Inquiry
- Narrative Strategy
- Ethnographic Research
- Thematic Mapping & Visual Taxonomies
- Multi-sensory Experience Design
- Concept Development

Technical & Making
- Physical Computing
- Rapid Prototyping
- Spatial & Interaction Design
- Sensor Integration (biofeedback, capacitive sensors)
- Wireframing & Visual Design
- User Testing
- Soundscaping

Tools & Software
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suit
- LLMs 
- Rhino
- Fusion
- Arduino IDE




Last Updated 05.05.25



1. SVARA

Nervous system regulation via light
Acrylic, Metal, Microcontrollers
Jan 2025 - Ongoing Svara is a set of 3 lamps for nervous system regulation through guided breath. This light-based tool harnesses principles of biofeedback to translate breathwork techniques into calming visual cues, supporting users in cultivating a consistent meditation practice — subverting the need for screens or apps.

Developed through hands-on prototyping and physical computing, Svara embodies a hybrid design approach: integrating technology into ambient, tangible artefacts to broaden the language of human-computer interaction beyond traditional graphical interfaces — into the realm of felt, embodied experience.


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2. Phys.io

A behavioural-first remote physiotherapy app to make recovery less of a chore.
Nov 2023 - January 2024
A behavioural-first physiotherapy app that reimagines the remote recovery experience.
Developed over two months through interviews with patients and physiotherapists, Phys.io addresses user adherence by embedding behavioural nudges, personalisation, and low-friction interactions into its system design. The project prioritises engagement without dependence on invasive tech or high-cost intervention. 


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3. Paytm DealsA redesign sprint driven by ambitious business targets: quadrupling the deals vertical in just two months. This project focused on transforming the ‘Claim’ flow- ironically eliminating the word claim altogether. 

By combining strategic research, mental model alignment, and interaction restructuring, the new interface delivered clarity, impact, and measurable uplift, leading to a 12% uptick in native bill payments within a month of launch.


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