Category: Events

  • Papercamp 4

    Papercamp 4

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    Papercamp 4 took place on September 20th 2025 at St Bride’s Foundation. It was a fantastic day.

  • Papercamp 3

    Papercamp 3

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    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.

  • Superflux & IKEA

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    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…

  • ITA Awards Nominee

    ITA Awards Nominee

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    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…

  • Interview included in ‘How to Mozfest’ book

    Interview included in ‘How to Mozfest’ book

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    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…

  • Making it!?

    Making it!?

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    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.  

  • The Good Home

    The Good Home

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    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.