Category: making
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More buildings about people and songs
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I went to a brilliant event last night at Arup in London. After a talk from Michael Pawlyn for the launch of the third edition of his book Biomimicry in Architecture, he joined a panel (Charlie Warwick, Jo da Silva, Andy Chalmers & Tom Lloyd) to discuss how to push beyond a ‘sustainable’ building industry…
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The Malkovich Principle
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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, was a newspaper. Newspapers are, of course, a brilliant container for giving people just enough context of a…
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The dram is out of the bottle
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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 distilleries might be trying to make the age of scotch whisky important again. But I wonder if it is too late?…
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Exploring the Evolution of Cards
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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. Which was nice. Then I repeated the talk at Friday’s monthly Cardstock online meetup. As usual,…
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Obliquiscopes: setting aperture for reality
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I just realised that this thing, the frame, the viewer, the [enter other casually used descriptor] has never really had one particular name. What is it? Well, it’s an Obliquiscope. We have used on the IED Innovation and Future Thinking course in Barcelona each year since 2018. Originally, the viewer was something I made to show the…
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Making the most of moments that matter
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As perhaps we all have, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting in the last few months about how to make those precious moments when people are together really matter. For a lot of people, the working week has been transformed by the pandemic, of course. Moving into this year, it feels that businesses now…
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Zenko Mapping, Inception and Pace Layers #WIAD2021
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I was honoured to give a talk on Zenko Mapping as part of this year’s virtual Word Information Architecture Day. Thanks to Mike and Mari for the invitation, and help in planning. As per the last talk I gave, I made a film to do it, using some of the previous ideas I’d used in…
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Zenko Mapping – A Video Introduction
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I was delighted to be asked to speak about Zenko Mapping at the Marketing Society’s Brave Get Together conference last month, especially given how many people are looking for new ways of working at the moment. I put together a little film as an introduction to Zenko Mapping, a tool I’ve been developing for the…
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Letting a little light in
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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in Leonard Cohen First of all, thank you to everyone who’s said nice things about this new website. And more crucially, perhaps, to those with more suggestions on how to make it clearer still. Thankfully, the design is built for iteration, and so all suggestions, improvements and comments…
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What does good thinking look like?
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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 choose. I’d said I’d explain a bit about it, but first though, what were the results?…
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A blacksmith makes their own tools
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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 doing what I do now, and definitely wouldn’t be thinking about things in the way I…
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The Oliver Twist
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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 three short talks and a panel with Asif Moghal from Autodesk, Gavin Munro from Full Grown and myself. The below isn’t…
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