Acuity Design

Car-centrism is so embedded that the question ‘Why do other public space users, like pedestrians and cyclists, need to press a button to gain permission to enter those spaces?’ is not really asked. Roads are defined as being for cars and their needs are prioritised above other users. The infrastructure automates their needs and imposes […]

I was helping facilitate an academic workshop with Abhay Adihikari and Inez Boogaarts on codesign on Friday and the issue of what do people do with the institution’s research came up. When a project finishes, when the report is published or the dataset filed; is that the end? Do things just stop? Where you stop, […]

There’s a terrible argument in design about desire paths. Generally it becomes apparent when someone posts a picture of a park with paved paths and a muddy line of a path cutting across the lawns. This is the desire path. The route ‘the people’ choose. It’s all tiresome BS. Desire paths are bad. They contain […]

I’m working thru some paper prototypes for a mini ‘How to use #Codesign workshop’ next week. This is for academics and professionals who are unsure of how to take their existing practices and research methodologies and use them with a community rather than on a community. What is key is to explain the Gap. Codesign […]

I started listening to Rutger Bregman’s new book Moral Ambition today. It’s a self-improvement book for people who want to make meaningful change (and with harsh warnings that it is useless for people who care only for their ego, money and personal happiness). Just one point from the opening chapters, there is a discussion of […]

A UK party is offering a policy idea of fining people for use of mobile devices playing audio on public transport without headphones. This makes me wonder about what being personally present in a community means. I am reminded of meta-cognition skills ideas around Confidence and Certainty (a contextual shifting around of Under and Over). […]

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Just while sitting in a meeting, I do realise that many people are thinking in terms of outputs and formats that are quite different. I think in diagrams and processes. How we map out the next steps and how we share ideas of relationships of elements. Slides and maps. I know however, that other people […]

I’ve been talking about the problem of Normal for several years. Go to PostNormal to read about the talks and workshops I do. The diagram above is just a new one to try and explain the problems of Normal and the benefits of Diversity. One point, one perspective There is a particular problem in product […]

Reading about the EU’s Preparedness advice and it’s interesting how it links to some work I’m helping out with on community LifeHouses. There has been a shift in reactions to the climate crisis to collapse awareness. That prepping is necessary at political and communal levels. This diagram came out of talking to activists in Oxfordshire […]