Designing for scale

I ran a workshop at the RCA last week on the topic of scale. I’ve been thinking about this for Continue reading →

Sensitive Abstract

In response to the call for sensitising concepts in the form of designerly abstractions suggested by Yang and others as Continue reading →

Designing machine learning

The relationship between user experience (UX) designers and machine learning (ML) data scientists has emerged as a site for research Continue reading →

Diffract / ive / ing Design

In an interview published in 2009 by New Materialism, Karen Barad responds to the idea that the dualist tradition in Continue reading →

Social Network Analysis

We invited the brilliant Elisa Bellotti from The Mitchell Centre in Manchester to talk to us about social network analysis. Their work is Continue reading →

Prototype in progress

For last week’s work in progress show, working with Shobhan Shah, I put together an interactive installation that was designed Continue reading →

Designing with people

Design research is usually understood to be about developing some kind of new artefact. These artefacts can be objects like Continue reading →

What is design for?

I ran a seminar session this week based on Ken Friedman’s well known Design Studies article of 2003 – Theory Continue reading →