Here’s the presentation I gave at FuturEverything, its a peek into our process and outcomes from the Power of 8 project, with an emphasis on the nature of our multidisciplinary collaboration and our DIY-future prototyping methods.
Last week I was invited by Simon Roberts to talk at WCIT2010, on a panel with Tom Steinberg (Mysociety), and Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale/Nokia). Simon had suggested that I try and link street/geography of India with local innovation and soft services. With the spiked interest in “emerging markets”, I thought it might be a good idea [...]
I was in Manchester last week for FuturEverything, clearly a transformative cultural event for the city of Manchester, buzzing with a series of interesting conference talks, art exhibits, live music, the UnConference and more. Here are just few of the talks I enjoyed at the conference : Glonet: Drew Hemment and Adam Greenfield kicked off [...]
The idea of a having a supermarket at your doorstep, or selling products door-to-door as a form of ‘customer service’ is very popular in India. In most parts of the country fruit and vegetable vendors go in their carts, carrying fresh supplies for the residents. But apart from these usual suspects, we also have unique [...]
We are working in India currently, which gives us an opportunity to observe the local services and the service economy that thrives in our country from a ‘service design perspective’. Specially becaus ‘service design’ as a new ‘saleable’ design service is only just getting attention, while age-old services designed from necessity, often through ‘jugaad‘ are [...]
I spoke at Interesting 2009 yesterday, a fabulous one-day conference organised by Russell Davies. The most important rule of the conference is: “Talk about something interesting as long as its not your work”. My talk was titled “Superpowers I grew up with”: I talked about the Superpowers not in the marvel sense of the world, [...]
On a sunny afternoon, while we were basking in the success of the Open Weekend, the high tide swept us off our feet, reminding me of ‘After London or Wild England’, by Richard Jefferies: “At the eastern extremity the Lake narrows, and finally is lost in the vast marshes which cover the site of the [...]
Its the day before our OPEN WEEKEND, for the Power of 8 project, and we are excited. Here are some images of our setup. The table will grow into some kind of cityscape / landscape hopefully over the course of two afternoons. More pictures then. This is work-in-progress and part of our public engagement efforts. [...]
“Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place”. Revisited one of my all time favourite films, Sans Soleil, by Chris Marker. Highly recommended.
Last year Marc Fonteijn from 31 Volts had invited me to do a guest post about service design on their blog. Since I now run the Superflux blog, I thought it might be good idea to present those thoughts here: March, 2008: I want to take this opportunity to reflect on some sustainable and perhaps [...]
