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Over fifteen years of exploring culture, technology, innovation and more…
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Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea…
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A new home for an old desk
in rivetingsTen years ago, I came across this story online – somebody had rescued six large reading desks from the demolition…
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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…
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An introduction to Regenerative Triangulation
in regenerativeBack in summer 2023, I wrote a post on an idea I’d had called Regenerative Triangulation. It was the first…
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Design Innovation: Venture Creation
I am running a one-off elective, called Design Innovation: Venture Creation as part of the Design Futures programme at The…
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Writing in the age of AI
in technologyI’ve been using Bluesky quite a bit, now that I’ve deleted Twitter. And trying out what it’s like to craft micro explorations…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Unbelievable Age
in rivetingsThere have always been unbelievably bad ads. They are now just unbelievable in a new way. I was at the…
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Exploring the Evolution of Cards
I spoke about cards at Papercamp 3 a little over a week ago. And I saw Tom Abba for the…