Update: If you’re interested in this kind of experience, check out CIID’s Summer Schools this year in Copenhagen and Costa…
What might happen if your community were to rethink the “unrethinkable”? What could we enable if, at a local, social…
More than six months ago I picked up “Reclaiming Conversation” by Sherry Turkle and devoured it over the Christmas break. Just…
How might we design and build a service to make “smart city” technology available to all citizens for experimentation and…
This post is based on a talk I gave at Interaction16 in Helsinki, March 2016. It’s less “design talk” and…
In 2015, I was lucky to lead a great team at Future Cities Catapult as we investigated potential applications for…
Transitioning from designer to design lead ain’t easy. You love your craft but now you need to think ever more…
Teams are the only way we can deliver complex design projects. Teams are key to the creation of something new…
I am delighted to be involved this year with Interactivos ’12 at the Science Gallery in Dublin in association with MediaLab…
Five months after completing “Common Room” I’m finished a frantic period of travel, freelance work and reflection and finally getting…
“And now, the end is near, and so I face…” I think I’m actually starting to go a bit mental….
‘Common Room began with an investigation into the shared spaces of Backpacker Hostels. These traditionally friendly, social spaces are changing…
Week eight has been spent almost entirely in the workshop. I’m looking back at my optimistic project plan for the…
Customary reference to the CIID timewarp: this week was a long one, felt like two. The first week of that…
Ok, my content management system failed me, and completely destroyed the original draft of this post. I know, I should’ve…
One thing’s for sure, time is flying by on this project. We’re all trying to get out a bit more…
With the industry project with Maersk finished, I can add to my list of experiences at CIID my very first…
Week three, and by Monday evening I’d completed five visits to three separate hostels, meeting 11 guests and 4 staff…
At the beginning of the week I tried to balance the arrangement of some research trips with continued reading and…
Thanks to the intensity of our schedule at CIID, it’s now back with a bang to thinking about the final project….