This year has been exciting for a number of planet-centred things I have been a part of doing. All of them have had a focus on positive transformative action. In a global context that is frightening, working with others, focusing on the local and doing beautiful things together is some kind of heartening response. In […]
Participative intimacy
What’s wrong with changing the world one neighbourhood at a time; hands in the soil but looking at the stars?
Transformative Economies
Eco-social justice requires a redistribution of resources and capabilities. Develop relational assets and it is possible to create surplus care as well as fairer societies.
The condition of continuousness
It is only when it stops that it becomes apparent it was a major part of how life was regulated. I used to travel. I had endless meetings across the country and across different countries. I was on the move. No one thought to ring any more, because I was always likely to be somewhere […]
Name it: Race. Class. Gender.
There was no ‘in it together’ during lockdown. Depending on your place in the world, your experience with Government attempts to control the virus will have been very different. Here, looking from the UK, I discuss some of the factors that differentiate us and need naming.
The Themes that Get Me Out of Bed in the Morning
There are themes I return to that are not about human-computer interaction, design or people’s experience of them, but exist across these, as the reason I do my work.
A lockdown story
This story is both sad and creepy. The sadness belongs to the story. The creepiness is all my own, in that I found myself investigating someone else’s life and the intimate details that modern living spreads across the internet.
After
My question is bigger and trickier to answer than theirs. I don’t just want to do my work well online while locked down. I want to speculate on the shape of things to come.
In Need of Transformation… Are we CreaTures of the Future?
It has never been more important to learn from the knowledge traditions that look to meaning, care and co-construction. While the focus has been on science and social science, hundreds of thousands of artists, community leaders, alternative designers, citizen groups, theatre makers, and creative practitioners of all sorts were devising practical responses to the pressing need to rethink relations in the world.