Author: designswarm
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ITA Awards Nominee
Tomorrow night, I’m very happy to attend the first ever ITA Awards ceremony organised by Inclusive Boards as I’ve been nominated for the ‘Tech Evangelist of the year’ award. It’s not exactly a title I’m completely comfortable with as I’m not a corporate evangelist, selling a product. I have however dedicated much of my career…
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Post-it note included in OZCHI’19 academic paper
I attended a workshop in Chemnitz by the German academic project Miteinander. At the end of it, I drew on a post-it note what I thought was the overlap and position of the six different internet of things card-based toolkits which had been presented. The image of that post-it has been included in an academic…
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Interview included in ‘How to Mozfest’ book
I acted as producer for the 2011 and 2012 edition of the Mozilla Festival. My experience was captured in a paper publication given to this year’s attendees to celebrate 10 years of the festival. When I worked with the Mozilla Foundation, this was the first time the festival was set in London and in the…
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On BBC Front Row
I was asked to review the Barbican show AI: More Than Human on live radio for BBC Radio 4’s famous Front Row program. It was great fun to be interviewed by Stig Abel and with the address thrill of seeing The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers (Mark Billingham, Val McDermid and Doug Johnstone) perform live in…
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Making it!?
I organised this one day conference on exploring ideas of success in making communities and makers in 2018. It was hosted at DoES Liverpool and sponsored by Barclay’s Eagle Labs and the European Union’s Regional Development Fund.
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The Good Home
Along with Peter Bihr & Dries de Roeck, I organised a series of 3 exhibitions (during the Milan Furniture Fair, in Aalst Living Lab for the elderly and during the London Design Festival) around concepts of ‘The Good Home’. The work which was showcased was generated by multi-disciplinary approaches, group work and virtual submissions.
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Good Night Lamp in the Design Museum’s permanent collection
The Good Night Lamp is now part of the London Design Museum’s permanent exhibit ‘Designer Maker User’ on the 3rd floor of its new space in South Kensington. It is included as an example of the internet of things next to the Nest thermostat & the Oyster card.
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Know Cards
A set of cards that lets you explore a wide range of electronics components commonly used in internet of things applications.
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Day in the life of a designer and her networked objects
I collaborated with Tom Klinkowstein in helping write the scenario for this extremely large diagrammatic narrative. In it, a potential scenario for life in 2030 is fleshed-out including the new smart products which might emerge out of current technological development. The full diagram can be downloaded as a pdf.