What is 1+1? Bot defence for beginners.
I had a call this morning from a mystery number, with a voice purporting to be “Sarah Wilson from the Housing Repair Team”. It was obviously a bot, and as always a simple tangential question throws...
View ArticleExploring the Evolution of Cards
I spoke about cards at Papercamp 3 a little over a week ago. And I saw Tom Abba for the first time in person, since, perhaps, he and Duncan talked at the first card-based meetup I hosted in 2013....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleWhere 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,...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleWriting 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...
View ArticleDesign Innovation: Venture Creation
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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