Sam Chermayeff (his father was a graphic designer, his grandfather was a product designer) is an architect talking about collective housing like his grandfather’s peers used to / the art of Constant (there doesn’t seem to be many video interviews which is annoying) / a decaying 1960s modernist seminary built by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #9
Sunday Scraps #8
A deep clean of some phone tabs which have been opened since last November. HoroHoro Cookies (found in Kanazawa) / Katrien de Blauwer’s exhibition at the Foto Museum in Rotterdam (one of my favorite artists) / I didn’t necessarily agree with this NYTimes article on the patriarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous but it was an interesting… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #8
Sunday Scraps #7
Human Systems (Berlin) / The home and ‘digital glimpsing’ / The first 1968 First Things First graphic design manifesto / Arthur Pieper’s House / Jonny Hill’s house for the wealthy Corbetts /First Things First 2020 podcast on climate change education / the now demolished 60 Hornton Street house / the powerful myth of sunscreen /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #7
Sunday Scraps #6
(Office deep clean kind of day) The problems of restoring light art / The open society and its enemies / Japan Dome House / Mr Straw’s House / the architect Charles Holden / Excellent pecorino and almond biscuits / Allan Octavian Hume who ran the South London Botanical Institute and was linked to Helena Blavatsky‘s… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #6
Sunday Scraps #5
Phil made a list of music videos shot in the Barbican/ Google stopped describing gorillas because it couldn’t figure out how to identify black people / decolonising design / cosplay innovation through patents / indie magazine economics / Bernard Leach (potter) / cats instead of things in the Underground / Digital Earth Fellowship cfp /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #5
The end of the sea: climate change and where to start?
My favourite novel is Oceano Mare by Alessandro Baricco. In it, (amongst many intertwined stories) a painter tries to paint the eyes of the sea with sea water and a scientist tries to ascertain the end point of the sea. Futile exercises, but it reminds me of climate change. Where do you start? Where does… Continue reading The end of the sea: climate change and where to start?
Sunday Scraps #4
Post-pandemic workplaces 1 2 / a book about sentient lightbulbs / Kevin Kelley turned 68 and gave young people some advice / Bela Banathy’s book on changing social systems / furniture music (coined by Erik Satie) / the paper that coined and defined ‘wicked problems’ / Un Chien Andalou online / The NewYorker about Lorraine… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #4
The world of (inconsistent) data
I left Bulb in late April 2019 and moved on to work with a team inside ING researching how financial institutions could utilise building data to develop a new generation of sustainability-led financial services until March this year. After working with Bulb, EDF & British Gas over the past 15 years, I certainly knew plenty… Continue reading The world of (inconsistent) data
A shepherdess: 9 years at the helm of #iotlondon
In autumn 2011, I was asked by Usman to curate and organise the London Internet of Things Meetup. He was busy growing Pachube and I had just shut Tinker London the year before. Ed Borden was the Pachube evangelist and ran the first 2 or three. I got involved from November 2011 and our 100th… Continue reading A shepherdess: 9 years at the helm of #iotlondon
Prisons or domes? Notes on the role of the home under COVID-19.
I wrote a book on the history of technology in the home which came out in 2018 and six weeks into my government mandated self-isolation, I’m thinking about what I wrote. Home as a space to return to, not exist in. Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23–79) famously wrote ‘One prefers one’s home to all other… Continue reading Prisons or domes? Notes on the role of the home under COVID-19.