I’ve been producing events on occasion and it was my great pleasure to produce the Mozilla Festival for the second year in a row. The event was very well reviewed but the most pleasurable part of it is being able to plan an event in a very small team of 5 women, Michelle Thorne the… Continue reading Behind and in front of the curtains.
A year of #iotlondon
Next month i will have been co-organising Cosm’s Internet of Things London Meetup for a year. When Usman and Ed approached me, the attendance was around 20 and the group had around 140 members. After a year, the meetup has attracted 906 members , between 40 and 70 actually attend every month, the meetup sells… Continue reading A year of #iotlondon
Funding the right things
There’s a lot to be said for the amount of money technology projects receive on crowd-funding platforms versus charitable organisations or good causes. The Paralympics are starting in London tomorrow and I found this project on Indiegogo. A young woman looking to get a new prosthetic leg for her athletic career. I hope she can… Continue reading Funding the right things
When things are people
I think an area we don’t quite talk enough about is the link between the internet of things and anthropomorphisation. When our things start to speak, who is to say we won’t assign values and behaviours to them like we do to people. Is that good, might that curb consumption? Will ponder some more. via… Continue reading When things are people
Incubating the internet of things in London
So you have an internet of things startup? I have one, my friends have one, and Kickstarter is coming to the UK. But really, money is only one part of the entrepreneurial equation. With the brith of IOTWorks last week in Boston, really, the only question is: why not in London? I have been living… Continue reading Incubating the internet of things in London
Thoughts for an Internet of Things education
I went to see New Designers last week in London, a yearly pilgrimage. I went to product design school at the beginning of the century and I was really hoping that in a digital age, things would feel, well, modern. They didn’t really. If you’ve never been, ND is a fair for product design graduates… Continue reading Thoughts for an Internet of Things education
Advertising & the internet of things: an FAQ
I’ve been asked to speak at Saachi in a few weeks about the internet of things. I’ve had clients before who were agencies before and we did some fantastic work together but I’ve also had 15 minute conversations with agency types asking more or less the same questions or interpreting the internet of things in… Continue reading Advertising & the internet of things: an FAQ
The problem with advertising
…is that, sometimes, the best projects have no budget & the people with a budget and the best intentions fall in the hands of agencies with no ability to think outside the box. 2 days, and 2 videos to illustrate this point. The first a video attempting, I suppose, to get young women interested in… Continue reading The problem with advertising
The airport & the convent: a book about IDII
In a sacrilegious mood, I decided to clear up the old iPhoto a few weekends ago and stick a bunch of pictures of my time at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (where I came up with Good Night Lamp back in 2005) into a book. I used Blurb and it’s turned out rather nicely I’d… Continue reading The airport & the convent: a book about IDII
Internet of things references
I often give talks about the internet of things and usually give the same references, adding new ones in. I thought I’d stick them all here for anyone who wants a good introduction to the topic. (last update August 9th 2012) Theory & fiction books Everyware by Adam Greenfield Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling A… Continue reading Internet of things references