Last month I gave a keynote talk at LIFT 10, France in Marseilles, following a lovely invitation by Nicolas Nova, who wanted me to open with a ‘broader, inspirational talk about design and how different approaches to prototype near-futures are important’. (No pressure!) Here’s the video from the talk: And here are my slides: Slides: [...]
We are pleased to have two lovely, talented designers join us for this summer. Meet Mark and Zahra! Hello! I’m Mark, a designer and PhD student at Nottingham University’s Horizon, and Mixed Reality Lab. I’m also a co-founder of LAB, a Nottingham based collective for open, collaborative creative practice. Previously I studied on the MA [...]
Its getting hotter, and we need an intern to join us! If you are interested in flexing your interaction design muscles, excited by science and emerging technologies, eager to try new things out, care about the future, have opinions, ask questions, generally curious and can draw a doodle or two, then this is the job [...]
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 [...]
“What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners? How much social life might they have in contacting each other?” These are the opening questions of the recently released [...]
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 [...]
In 2004, Louise Klinker and I designed a concept toy car for Mattel called ‘Sketch-a-move‘, created a video to communicate the idea and presented the video at Mattel HQ in LA. The project was well received and blogged on Engadget and We Make Money Not Art. Within weeks, the video became so popular that it [...]
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 [...]
