Designing The Future: Tues 21st June
This June, during London Technology Week, I’ve been invited to give a talk over at Loft Digital on Designing The Future. It’s been about a year since I started a track of thinking and doing on this...
View ArticleMetastrategy In Malmo: Adventures at The Conference
I was honoured to be invited to give a keynote talk at The Conference in Malmo last week, to an audience of 1000 people. Which is a big room… Here’s the ‘before’ picture… …and here is the ‘after’…...
View ArticleMetastrategy – Movement, Loops and Layers – Video
I was very excited to be invited to Oslo to give the final keynote of the Webdagene conference. It’s one of my favourite cities, and the speaker line-up was immense too – you should check out all of...
View ArticleThe Time Capsule Retrieval Service
We’ve recently been working with the Emerging Technologies team at The Royal Society, for a conference they put on for their Fellowship. The purpose of the conference was twofold; to introduce the...
View ArticleThe Pattern Problem
I was delighted when Neil Perkin invited me back after six years to speak again at Firestarters last night. The theme of the evening was on behaviours. Richard Shotton was up first, and gave an...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
After the five-year celebratory extravagances of last year’s festive Three Spirits project, we over at Smithery decided that we’re keeping the basic form of those three trees and expanding it into our...
View ArticleThe Oliver Twist
Last week, after two days of teaching at the RCA with the Design Products gang, I also took part in a Future of Manufacturing edition of the School of Design’s evening lecture series. This involved...
View ArticleThe Futures and Follies of the Full-Stack Habitat
I’m delighted to be back at IED in Barcelona again this summer leading the Innovation and Future Thinking summer course. We’re bringing together the usual gang of inspirational lecturers and local...
View ArticleFlying The Forge
It seems somewhat fitting that it’s the tenth anniversary of The Do Lectures this weekend; it was there at their fifth iteration I met Fraser Hamilton, and tomorrow is his last day at Smithery. For...
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The Descent Of Fan
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The New Twickenham Gates
“The venture, led by London-based architects Wilson Owens Owens, provides a unique focal point when fans arrive and delivers a recognisable starting point for their experience at the world’s largest...
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Next Gen Artefact Cards
It’s taken a little while, due to longer than expected things (which I’ll perhaps blog about at length at some point). But the next generation, retail-ready Artefact Cards are hitting the presses this...
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The Parasite As Host?
I has a DM from Lee at the weekend, after we’d caught up last week for the first time in ages: “…loved your comment re Monzo as an incumbent – smart, in an ‘of course’ way. Might make a nice blog*...
View ArticleOn not writing books
“You should write a book.” Sometimes I say this to other people, sometimes other people say this to me. It came up again this week. Anjali and I had lunch, and spoke of our mutual delight on Neil...
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Performative working
There’s something weird going on with putting people in windows to work. Like when restaurants sit diners next to the windows first, to make it seem busier than it actually is. The post Performative...
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A thing, in a shop
Look here; it’s a thing, in a shop: Yes, that’s right, the new Artefact Cards are now available to buy in the Somerset House shop. They saw them at the Makerversity Christmas Fair and said “well, what...
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How many bags do you think that is?
I’ve noticed that there’s a fascinating little exchange at the end of the Ocado process. After you’ve received all your shopping, the delivery driver will ask ‘have you got any bags to return?’. It’s...
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“Proud to use wonky veg”
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Public(ish) Service
Replacing screens in the world with the one you have in your hand. Questions about how much of a public service this remains – can everyone afford the hardware, software, data charge and experience to...
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Location Implication
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