TALAMANA · THE COMPLETE MAP · ABOUT · THE METHOD · SOURCES · OPEN DATA

About Talamana

Talamana is an open map of AI literacy for architecture and design students.

BUILT IN INDIA · REVISED EVERY EDITION

Talamana is a map for architecture and design students. It connects ideas about AI with the choices you make in your work.

It is built from the published work and teaching practice of Sahil Tanveer — architect, author, educator and AI-in-design researcher; founder of Red Brick Design Studio (RBDS) and RBDS AI Lab, India.

FIND A WAY IN

Choose an idea you want to understand. Its card explains it and shows what it builds on. Strong links lead to its foundations; helpful links are optional.

The age rings suggest when to first meet an idea — the map runs from ages 11 to 22 across 6 strands. You can explore at any age.

TAKE IT INTO YOUR WORK

Talamana is a textbook, not a manual. It gives you the ideas; it does not teach any tool step by step.

Try an idea in a design project and discuss your choices with someone else. Mark an idea done and the ideas that stand on it open. Cards list their sources and mark the Lab’s own views, so you can question what you read.

The map is free and open. It is revised every edition.

THE MAP TODAY

287 ideas · 614 dependencies · 6 strands · ages 11–22. Version 0.8.3, September 2026.

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READ NEXT

The method — how every idea is labelled and linked · Sources — where the ideas come from · Open data — the whole map as a dataset you can build on.

Open the map · Logika · RBDS AI Lab, India · revised every edition.