I am glad to be running a new workshop at EuroIA conference in Marseille at the end of September. You can read about the conference, all the workshops and talks, and buy tickets (there are only 100) on their website EuroIA22. I now try to provide pre-workshop information to prospective participants and this post explains […]

I have made some new stickers and cards for the workshops I facilitate. They are deliberately pointy to force participants to think about how they value their own knowledge and the knowledge of people they are sharing a time and place with. I am going to use this post to explain why I think I […]

These are some tactile and Braille interpretation materials for a new English Heritage project – read about it in this Guardian article. It was a fairly low budget project that needed fast delivery so all elements were kept simple in design terms. However, the key point is that we made multiple pieces of media to […]

I wasn’t enjoying my coffee and cake. My dead mother was grumpy and both the cafe and home toilets had tried to gang up on me. Sitting in the window, looking at the new shirt, I turned Mum over in my hand and tried to decide whether to lie to her or not. Until ten […]

The Mona Lisa arrived at our house today. It has taken time to get here. I asked for it a year ago at my neighbourhood well and then there were many conversations around the well to understand why I needed the original painting. Wouldn’t a jpeg or a printed poster be enough? was the main […]

Taking responsibility is hard. Organisations, like private corporations and governments, have however, found a way of avoiding that responsibility and that hard work. It is a form of judo. Using the weight and momentum of the issue and flipping it so it ends up being transferred to someone else. In System Blame Judo it is the responsibility […]