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Negotiating futures. Design fiction

Swiss Design Network Conference 2010: Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, [...]

6 April 2010

Design Engaged 2005

Design Engaged 2005

Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.

20 November 2005

Spatial memory at Design Engaged 2004

Here is my presentation [pdf] and presentation notes from Design Engaged 2004. Lots of pretty pictures of stickers, tags, flyposting and such. I will chip in with Dan, Adam, Matt, Molly and Fabio to say that this has been the conference highlight of the year.

15 November 2004

Design Engaged 2004

We are all sat around a table in Amsterdam, at Design Engaged 2004. There are lots of photos going up to Flickr, and here are my notes.

13 November 2004

Art + communication 2004

The final event in the Trans-cultural mapping series of workshops was organised by RIXC in Riga, Latvia.

6 October 2004

Physical computing workshop

Making sense, a physical computing workshop at Atelier Nord took place from 22 – 25 September 2004. Have a look at my images at Flickr.

26 September 2004

ISEA 2004 conference

Going to ISEA on a boat between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn and Tallinn today. I am updating photographs here, and have been posting some event notes over at polarfront.

13 August 2004

Photography and mapping from Afar

My piece for ‘Afar’ in Copenhagen documents the time from 27 February to 19 May 2004. It presents a linear sequence of images alongside personal maps.

28 July 2004

Iceland inside/out workshop

Currently in Reykjavik for the Trans-cultural mapping workshop.

1 July 2004

Loop city workshop

Some notes from the ‘loop city’ workshop at Outside In in Goteborg.

20 June 2004

Outside In

Leaving Göteborg, heading to Norway, after two days of presentations and workshops at Outside In at Röda Sten.

15 June 2004

Notcon 04

Two things I saw at Notcon 04 and got excited about.

7 June 2004

Transcultural mapping workshops

I will be participating in the Transcultural mapping workshop in Lofoten in June. I am also participating in the ‘Loop City’ workshop at the Outside In symposium.

20 May 2004

Creative Crossings workshop

Creative Crossings was organised by m-cult, banff centre and arts council england to bring together practitioners from Britain, Canada and Finland to discuss participatory and creative applications for the development of mobile/located and cross-platform media. It was a research based event looking at practice in contemporary media arts.

28 April 2004

Interaction and narrative workshop

Notes from a lecture given at Channel 4 in London, covering ideologies, examples, processes and practicalities in interactive narrative.

11 February 2002