Author: designswarm
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Papercamp 4
Papercamp 4 took place on September 20th 2025 at St Bride’s Foundation. It was a fantastic day.
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Papercamp 3
I had the pleasure of reviving Papercamp , a multidisciplinary day event about paper in September 2024, thanks to the support of UCL, d4s, G.F.Smith and Moo. I’m hoping to do it again in autumn 2025.
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Good Night Lamp at Biennale Internationale Design Ste-Etienne
Go visit the At Home exhibition until July 31st 2022.
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Superflux & IKEA
To coincide with COP26 (hosted in Glasgow in 2021) Superflux were asked to work with IKEA/Ingka Group to showcase the best of their sustainability work. I acted as project manager and wrote a little about it. I went on to work with the audio visual contractor we hired as coordinator for a few months in…
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Human Values in digital design questionnaire
In 2020, the BBC R&D North Lab and myself won some funding from NESTA to turn their Human Values work into practical tools for policy-making. Building on my experience shepherding the London Internet of Things community into developing the Better IoT assessment tool, I helped them develop a questionnaire for people building digital tools. The…
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Creating a Culture of Innovation
My new book is out now and I’ve written a little blog post about it to give you a taster of what to expect!
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100th #iotlondon
Tonight, I ran the 100th and my last London Internet of Things Meetup. I wrote about what I think we’ve achieved as a community back in May. It’s been such an honour to meet so many people and support them in a simple way in their journey: give them the time to talk about what…
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Low Carbon Design Institute
We’re piloting a new kind of design education in summer 2021. This two week program is aimed at creative people interested in deeply learning about climate change and who refuse to start from a blank page.
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IDII unofficial archive
I completed my Masters at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea between 2004-2006 at which point the program was closed. As the official story of the institute has yet to be told in writing, I put together an online archive documenting the move from Ivrea to Milan and the change in conditions for students before the…
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IoT for climate change with Overlay
Since the start of the summer, I’ve been working a few days a month with Overlay, a startup incubated by ING Labs in the heart of London’s financial district. It’s been incredibly interesting and they are fantastic people which I didn’t expect from the financial sector. My work involves helping Overlay’s product development by researching…