• Sree Krishna Pillarisetti

  • Soft-Drive

    Soft-Drive
    Soft-Drive, my thesis project, is a product responding to the loss of agency over our personal data on the cloud, which is run by unsustainable server farms. My regenerative memory storage device has a memory card and a heat sink encased in a shock-absorbent shell made from mycelium (fungi), hemp, and polylactic acid, all sourced from linear waste streams. My product challenges the dominant aesthetics of consumer electronics while reintroducing materiality to digital memory, bringing cloud storage down to earth and growing decentralized local networks for sustainable data sharing and storage.

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