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: [...]
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 [...]
In a conversation with Dougald Hine about the Power of 8 project, he mentioned the Dark Mountain Project that he had been working on, with Paul Kingsnorth. Today is the launch of this project, and to coincide with that event, here’s a video of Dougald explaining the story behind it. You can read and download [...]
A quick update regarding The Power of 8 project. We are opening the first phase of the project to the public with an ‘OPEN WEEKEND’ at the Watermans Gallery on 25th and 26th July, from 1pm to 4pm on both days. This is part of the London 2012 Open Weekend and the Cultural Olympiad, organised [...]
