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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
“What we can say without any shadow of doubt is that petroleum man is just about extinct by the end of the century. That poses the thorny, difficult question, will Homo sapiens be as wise as his name implies and figure out a way to live without oil which is the bloodstream of virtually everything.” [...]
