We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tessy Britton‘s lovely book: HandMade: Portraits of Emergent New Community Culture. Part of the Social Spaces Project: “HandMade is a result of two years research into new types of community projects.( kudos to Tessy for all the hard work! )The twenty-eight authors have contributed perspectives and stories on [...]
The floods in Pakistan are being described as a slow Tsunami, sweeping across the length of the country, raising further fears of epidemics. It is a heart wrenching situation, but is only the taste of things to come, as this article puts it. Everyone who can is helping out, in whatever way possible. From a [...]
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.
We presented the 5th Dimensional Camera in the IMPACT! Gallery at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Thanks to EPSRC and the festival organisers for hosting us. We spoke to scientists, school children, teachers, journalists, parents, students, authors, makers and many more. Much fun was had, here are just some memories… more images here.
Quick Overview: As work is underway to harness the weird nature of our subatomic world to build a quantum computer, we, as designers, where given the unique opportunity to explore what the wider implications of living in a world with quantum computing might be. Initially we investigated the many possibilities that this new form of [...]
The title of this post is inspired from the famous Schrödinger thought experiment. A cat is placed in a sealed box with some poison, whether the poison is released or not is controlled by a random ‘quantum event’ such as radioactive decay. In the experiment, the cat must be simultaneously both dead and alive until [...]
Next week I will be attending TEDIndia as a TED Fellow, and I am definitely looking forward to it. The theme of the conference is ‘Future Beckons’ and conference line-up is absolutely fantastic. Some of the speakers I am very keen to listen include Hans Rosling, R.A. Mashelkar, Banny Banerjee, Kiran Sethi, Anil Gupta and [...]
The Power of 8 show ran successfully for three weeks at the Watermans Gallery and we are now trying to get our lives back, and new client work (with the Courtauld Institute of Art and Southern Water amongst others) has kept us busy. We will be posting a complete run down of the show, our [...]
In a previous post, I had mentioned about the Power of 8 public engagement efforts we had organsied as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend events. Here’s what the big table looked like at the end of the weekend. You can read more about it here, and more images here.
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. [...]
