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Escape From The High Street
Escape room on some fairly prime London real estate, where once there were shops. The theme-parkification continues. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2iiVYYs The post Escape From The High Street appeared...
View ArticleA blacksmith makes their own tools
This week, I gave a talk (with a little bit of workshopping) as part of the third module of IPA Excellence Diploma. This was a course I did back in 2007/8, and without doing it, I probably wouldn’t be...
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Sound the Retreat
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Charging Infrastructure
In a new cafe, who’ve installed all of their power points like this… it’s easier to pull out the plug from the table above, I’m guessing. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2it8KBj The post Charging...
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“Ultra Low Emissions Street…”
…feels a bit like “ultra low tar cigarettes”… it’s still *smoking*, isn’t it? Worth investigating though, perhaps. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2iv7H6E The post “Ultra Low Emissions Street…” appeared...
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Startup Prontoprint
Kinda interesting – positioning itself as a walk-in creative studio, where you pay by marketing services by the hour. “Marketing for all” they say on the website. Which is also possibly just flipping...
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Plant-Based Lifeforms
There’s something quite Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy about the phrase ‘plant-based’ – echoes of the description of humans as ‘carbon-based lifeforms’. If it persists as a phrase, ‘based’ is a...
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28 Days Later
It’s hard to know whether London is quieter this weekend, or just feels quieter. A new chapter for “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” no doubt. Interesting to note how quickly...
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Happy Hour, 2for1
Now idly wondering how a couples recruitment policy works. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2iBLHyV The post Happy Hour, 2for1 appeared first on Smithery.
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Home Cured Bacon
No, not the usual kind of Smithery post… but these are strange times, no? Helen and the kids bought me a bacon curing course for my birthday a few years back, and since then I have regularly made some...
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Table View: a video call hack
During the first virtual Cardstock meetup on Friday, we (the collective group) mentioned we’d play around with different ways of making the ‘card method’ work for us all online, and report back. I was...
View ArticlePond life
There’s a giant tadpole in our pond, the amphibian Jaws of suburban Sussex. I started wondering if it had just had a head start out the frogspawn, and so did some research. In a way, it probably has...
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What does good thinking look like?
Earlier this week, I posted up the four images above on a twitter poll and on instagram, and asked the simple questions; A, B, C or D? No context, just that – of the four images, which would you...
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Towards Leastmodernism; Mr Prosser’s Bulldozer
I was at my second International Futures Form (IFF) breakfast this morning. On Zoom, naturally*. One of the conversation threads in our breakout group was about clutter. We’re spending much more time...
View ArticleFiring Korben Dallas
There’s been a lot of attention paid to a comment that Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays, said on Wednesday 29th April 2020 in comments to reporters. “…the notion of putting 7,000 people in a building may...
View ArticlePlaying the hand you’re dealt
I’ve been thinking a lot about Assemblage. It’s been prompted by Anab’s inclusion of it in her More-Than-Human-Politics manifesto, pointedly positioned against Systems (“Assemblages are diverse,...
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Traffic Signs, Not Billboards
I went to our local high street today in Haywards Heath. I had an errand to run; my watch battery ran out two weeks into lockdown, and I wanted to get it fixed at the independent jeweller (hey, kids,...
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Introduction to Assemblage Space
I wanted to expand on a new idea I’ve been working on, Assemblage Space. I was invited by Steve Simmance to give a short talk as part of a Future of Work Forum he was setting up for some clients. They...
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Home Cured Bacon
No, not the usual kind of Smithery post… but these are strange times, no? Helen and the kids bought me a bacon curing course for my birthday a few years back, and since then I have regularly made some...
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Table View: a video call hack
During the first virtual Cardstock meetup on Friday, we (the collective group) mentioned we’d play around with different ways of making the ‘card method’ work for us all online, and report back. I was...
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