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in these pages you can find articles I have written about design,
innovation, technology and my maserati. You can see some of the things I have helped create, and get in contact with me.
update:
3 june 2009
This Thursday evening I will be
speaking at an Innovation Forum event "Beyond Web 2.0, Building Digital Britain" at Nesta's headquarters in London.
I spoke last week at the Cumulus
conference on "Confronting Challenge With Change", hosted by Ravensbourne College of Art at the O2 arena. I took part
in a very enjoyable forum chaired by Jeremy Myerson with Bill Sermon from Nokia, Mariana Amatullo from Arts Center,
Passadena and Peter Higgins, of Land Design. The presentations were stimulating and focused on new forms of design, getting
closer to people and the role of education in creating new thinkers. My talk was titled "Democratisation of Design"
and how this challenges the right of anyone called a designer to design.
I keep finding myself on You Tube but
was pleased to find this one - it was the talk I gave in Oslo at the Norwegian design Council's conference on Inclusive Design last
year, the day before I started Cisco, and is a very complete version of Lipstick on a Pig, if you want to see the full thing.
Recent projects at Cisco include public TelePresence applications, where the learning
from building a demo and having people interact with the real experience proves to be so much better than paper market research
of the conventional type. I am also working in Almere in Holland on how technology can enable our ageing population to participate
and enjoy life and on a pilot for international public telepresence in cafes called "Dialogue Cafe"
Everyday I still find examples of where great technology is poorly designed and remains
inaccessible and unfriendly, severely limiting access and success. As I keep saying:
We still live in a world that is incredibly poorly "designed" and I am just amazed
that people haven't stormed the citadel of archaic technology development and demanded better.
the short , pecha kutcha, version of
Lipstick on a Pig can be found at:
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