So to conclude (rather dramatically) last week, here are some notes on what I ended up showcasing at the end of the Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint in Anstruther, Scotland. Made Near You (MaNY) is a service which allows food producers who want to encourage local communities and tourists to eat and buy local. A form… Continue reading Made Near You: making local food businesses shareable & transparent
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Rage against the Machine
Rage against the Machine I just spent the week in Scotland hanging out with Europeans living abroad, British people living across the whole of the UK, Americans living across Europe. Those are ‘my people’ in a life I’ve been priviledged to live since I moved to London for love in 2007. Even when the love ended,… Continue reading Rage against the Machine
Day 3 of Mozilla OpenIOT DesignSprint
Not a particularly productive day (I may be nursing a cold) today but lots of thinking about what we know, what we don’t know and what we choose to ignore. It turns out for example that there isn’t any regulation on what distance is required for you to be able to use the term ‘local’on… Continue reading Day 3 of Mozilla OpenIOT DesignSprint
Day 2 of Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint: Farmnet
I’m in Anstruther (a small fishing village in Fife, Scotland) this week taking part in the second Mozilla Open IOT Studio design sprint. The whole week is organised by Michelle Thorne, the studio director and Jon Rogers who lives in the area. We’re working from an old church adjacent to a graveyard and there’s 40 of… Continue reading Day 2 of Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint: Farmnet
On the potential
(Talk given on March 11th in India at the BusinessWorld IOT Expo.) I’ve had a lot of friends join large organisations as employees. One of the reasons they cite is often ‘there’s so much potential’ because the brand / business is large, important or global. I always grin. Since the world of business and technology… Continue reading On the potential
Anybody Home? Where did design dissapear off to?
Here is the transcript for my talk at IXDA in Helsinki on March 2nd. Il faut confronter les idées vagues avec des images claires. – Jean-Luc Godard I want to talk about the areas that were abandoned by design and designers and why they are worth rediscovering. Hello. On good days I describe myself an… Continue reading Anybody Home? Where did design dissapear off to?
The End of Ignorance
The End of Ignorance from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino This is a transcript of my talk for Webstock ’16. I’ve been thinking about where the internet of things sits in the grand scheme of the human experience and I’ve come to some conclusions I’d like to share with you. On ignorance The word ignorant is an adjective… Continue reading The End of Ignorance
A Good Death
On December 18th, my dad died with his mouth open. We all die with our mouth open. But we don’t all die a good death. His was dignified and peaceful and worth sharing. It was a death surrounded by loved ones. A death in silence, without much pain. A death in a world constructed for death… Continue reading A Good Death
A Good Death.
A Good Death. On December 18th, my dad died with his mouth open. We all die with our mouth open. But we don’t all die a good death. His was dignified and peaceful and worth sharing. It was a death surrounded by loved ones. A death in silence, without much pain. A death in a world… Continue reading A Good Death.
End of year review
Thanks to Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson for initiating this habit, this is the 9th year I’ve done these reviews. 1.What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? Went back home five times. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? What New Year’s Resolutions 3. Did… Continue reading End of year review