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 […]
Accessibility enables autonomy – a project example
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 […]
Meeting the ghost of myself coming home
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 […]
Help me think?
In 2018 I was doing work on Forgetting in design. This was mostly due to a mix of work in Dementia and human centered design concerns about the demand for Memorability made by some products and services. I’ve come back to this diagram due to work updating the SensoryUX workshop I have been running since […]
The Mona Lisa on my mantlepiece
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 […]
The Community – design fiction for new economies
This is just a few notes for a design fiction on future economies. It is a reaction to an article in Byline Times on the T4 Eugenics policy of Nazi Germany. The ease with which economics and accounting can be used to de-humanise people. This relates to the long-term conservative idea of dividing people in […]
System Blame Judo
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 […]
Protected: Codesign – starting with uncertainty
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The Gap in Codesign
This is prototype for a workshop for young people who are starting a new cultural codesign project. I have 90 minutes to offer some advice. What I hope to do is: validate their feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability and show they are strengths offer some skills on communicating better and thinking about wellbeing and self-care […]
Alignment: linking movement and thought
Alignment has been coming up in a lot of my reading over the last year. In books on Wayfinding, Time Perception, Dissent, Kindness and Leadership it’s the anchor of alignment that comes thru as a common theme. The need to be aligned at the start of a project or journey but also the need to […]