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The Unbelievable Age
There have always been unbelievably bad ads. They are now just unbelievable in a new way. I was at the cinema at the weekend with friends. It is probably one of the few opportunities nowadays where I...
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The dram is out of the bottle
My flight back from Barcelona Design Week has been slightly delayed, so you lucky people get a ten minute blog post inspired by wandering the whisky aisles of the duty free. In short; major...
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Making green spaces visible for communities
Today I quickly put together a timelapse video using Google Earth Pro, a free-to-download piece of software from Google. This was for our local nature group, to visualise not just the housing...
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Where the work is
‘Today’s vibe’ …is a thing I’ve done on LinkedIn for a while. It’s usually a passage I have read previously which chimes with the general feeling in the air today. That can be a resonance with work,...
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The Malkovich Principle
A few weeks back, I was invited to be a critical friend on a futures project by Paul Graham Raven & Keri Facer. The artefact in the centre, the central vehicle to invite people into this world,...
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Writing in the age of AI
I’ve been using Bluesky quite a bit, now that I’ve deleted Twitter. And trying out what it’s like to craft micro explorations there. The following was a series of five ‘skeets’ (no, seriously, let’s...
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I am running a one-off elective, called Design Innovation: Venture Creation as part of the Design Futures programme at The Royal College of Art over the next nine weeks. I wanted to set out a...
View ArticleAn introduction to Regenerative Triangulation
Back in summer 2023, I wrote a post on an idea I’d had called Regenerative Triangulation. It was the first time I’d expressed it publicly, yet Lizzie Shupak asked me nearly immediately to do a talk on...
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Kaleidoscopes – Mechanisms for Meaningful Meetings
Last month, I ran a ‘workshop about workshops’ for the good folks in Nesta’s Discovery Team. We played the world’s best warm-up game of Mundane Superhero, through the core theory of Information as...
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A new home for an old desk
Ten years ago, I came across this story online – somebody had rescued six large reading desks from the demolition of Birmingham Central Library. And that person lived locally to me down in Sussex. I...
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