This essay examines the conditions required to help Eindhoven develop an alternative, social version of a smart city, including participatory design methods.

This article discusses the growing interest in drones and the challenges around regulations, cities, and infrastructure.

Some of our early work on ‘Design Futurescaping’ at LIFT, Geneva, 2009.

A talk about the future of personal genomics, nationalised healthcare, synthetic biology and genetic crimes.

An overview of our studio’s research practice, process and ethos presented at Fabrica, Italy.

A talk exploring cultural turbulence, technological acceleration and increasing complexity, in the context of our ongoing work.

Open Informant is a wearable badge with an e-ink display that attempts to confront the unsettling realities of surveillance in a networked age.

In this essay, we propose five citizen co-design strategies for enabling systemic change in governance processes.

Yellow Chair Stories was an experiment in service design, demonstrating how identity and personal space can be affected by interminglings of the physical and the virtual.

A futurescaping workshop challenging design students to probe notions of borders, territories, and the fragile, increasingly precarious relationship between people and their government