I’ve just been awarded a research stipend by the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. Here’s the rationale: My interest in…
Tag: design
toying with the singularity
I’ve added a draft of ‘Toying with the singularity’ to the Publications page – a chapter for The Internet of Toys: practices, affordances and the political…
talking about the playful future
A talk at the University of York’s Theatre, Film & TV Department‘s research seminar series on October 11th. Taking the Lightbug project to design interactive playground equipment…
digital ideas workshop…
… at Southampton City Gallery. More news on the resulting projects to follow.
transforming creativity
With Dan Ashton I have recently set up the Transforming Creativity Research Group at WSA. We are waiting for the official website to be…
future of toys… network ideas
The central theme of the proposed activity is the future of toys in a digital media culture. Taking recent developments in ‘hybrid’ toy and…
you could vibrato it
A quick cut and annotation of a microethological study of the testing of Alphasphere at the Pervasive Media Studio some years ago. I’ve put…
the end of toys
Watch this space for a new project to explore the design, philosophy and lived experience of the toy in children’s postdigital culture. Focussing on…
pythiatechnics
What is the temporality of the design process? There is a moment of production, a blank period of distribution and installation as the object…
design and the black box
Designing for playful media and games presents a particular challenge – not for designers, but for the study of design. The most useful critical…
Harlem Shake, gangnam & planking
Field notes, DanceTag test at St Matthias Campus, UWE Bristol 19th Nov 2013 Following a lecture I gave introducing the project to third year…
drawing board
Drywipe design!