Facebook: Taking the boys for a half-term trip to Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things at the Science Museum London. In the show thirty-six inventions are presented alongside original sketches and drawings by their inventors, patent specifications and original adverts revealing the efforts made to establish each product. It is produced in collaboration with […]
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Report: General Election Hustings: Science, Research, Technology and Innovation, 19/11/2019 (The Royal Society)
In the run-up to the 2019 General Election, representatives from the main political parties were invited to outline their party’s election position on Science, Research, Technology and Innovation
Book review: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Cover of ‘Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet’ Review of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon (Simon & Schuster Inc, 1997) ISBN: 0684832674 Reference on Amazon.co.uk Originally published in WorldLink, the magazine of the World Economic Forum, whose Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director was […]
Talk: Urbanism: Creating the future of transport, 2013
Developing on research I was doing with BIG POTATOES on transport futures, I gave a talk entitled ‘Urbanism: Creating the future of transport’ to CreativeMornings LDN (@London_CM), a talk series for people in the Creative Industries which takes place around the globe. The event took place at Camden Collective. The talk is structures around Vehicles, […]
Chairing: DBA: An evening with Marco Steinberg
For the Design Business Association I conducted an ‘in conversation’ with Marco Steinberg, Director of Strategic Design at Sitra (the Finnish Innovation Fund), on 13 November at Interbrand in London. We discussed Steinberg’s work at Sitra, what it means to innovate in the public sector, addressing ‘grand challenges’, and whether the design community is ready to help government redesign public services. More on […]