The Superflux Blog

There’s a nice feature about my talk at LIFT10 in the LeMonde! © photo by fgirardin, showing the Superflux ‘strategy-sketch’.

Shagun Singh from Designwala interviewed me about my ‘elastic city‘ talk, Superflux, the Lab, future plans and all things design. It was a long and wonderful chat, and here’s a short video clip of the same:

Featured in this month’s Wired UK, with a rather interesting title!

Few weeks post TEDIndia, I am still a bit overwhelmed, trying to decompress the experience. Sunitha Krishnan’s images of the many thousands of young girls she continues to rescue from Indian brothels through her organization Prajwala shook the soul. Her words “Very often you find that the victims have an incredible sense of ‘giving’, they [...]

Its exciting times here at Superflux. We have a brand new, clean, shiny website! We are still uploading content, but its up in its ‘beta’ state. Thanks to Jon Ardern for the development and drupal expertise. On 22nd September we are opening the Power of 8 project to the wider public as part of the [...]

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, [...]

Two years ago, I had made Haloumi curry for my last minute guests Yumiko, James and Chris. I had about ten minutes to cook up something, and the Turkish shop down the road did not have any paneer, so I decided to substitute it with Haloumi. Thankfully it went down quite well, but Yumiko ended [...]

“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.

This month’s MAKE magazine has an article by Bruce Sterling titled ‘Designer Futurescape’, a title and topic that refers to my talk ‘Design Futurescaping’ at LIFT09 in Geneva earlier this year. To quote just a few lines from the article: “Is it really so important to make a real thing, to have an empirical referent, [...]

“Every morning, as I stand in the shower, I hear metallic sounds where the water drops hit my shoulder… Here, touch it… knock on it…. Do you hear it?” Yes I do. And it freaks me out. I am very curious about implants, they fascinate me, and sort of make me feel uncomfortable at the [...]