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I have to admit, I loved reading this. I relished like a smooth, hard, and cold drag on a cheap lager at the end of a hot July day. I’ve always wondered what happens to forecasters when their future(s) goes all pear-shaped? Trend forecasters predict a more trendless
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I was reminded of a story my, aunt in what was once Yugoslavia, told me one time. It was 1968 and the Soviet Union had just invaded and crushed a nascent independence movement in Czechoslovakia. Bear in mind this country was already Communist but apparently not enough. What she described
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I believe in using design to solve problems. Real problems, not imaginary ones that might be in some fantistical future. You know, the future that looks like a cross between a shit “Logan’s Run” and Muji. But ones today that are real and are always a product of what
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Trying to make a difference isn’t about TED talks and creating inspiration, there’s enough inspiration out there for millennia to come. What we need is more effort in the boring, long, hard slog making real improvements to things that actually affect our lives today. We don’t need
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The one thing either an 80 or 15 year old can do with a phone is dial a number and listen – thus we’ve developed a phone and internet monument infrastructure gives places phone numbers where anyone can just call up the place they’re at and have someone (as
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The other day while making myself a cup of tea next to a meeting here at BRIG (which is where RIG and ADG make their home during working hours) I was mentioned as “…and Jim does mass graves…” to which I too quickly and smarmily added “But wait! I also
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If you would have asked me just even a year ago if I would be addressing a public hearing in European Union Parliament, I wouldn’t have even understood the question I don’t think. To think that what basically began as an idea, and a not even a terribly
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Rolf and I have somehow managed to have been invited by none less than a vice president of the European Union Parliament to speak at a Public Hearing in the EU Parliament called “What Do Young Europeans Know About Totalitarianisms”. Aside of course from the widening of what we’re
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So in a couple of short hours, or probably less, last week I’ve managed to get my work that I’m doing for the Spomenik project on no less than ten Slovenian news outlets, thanks in large part to the brave and media-savvy work of our partners at the
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“So what are you up to today?” asks curious fellow designer person. “Oh, you know, a little genocide in the morning, a lot of emailing people that probably don’t care, and then I have to do expenses,” I respond. The curious fellow designer person usually responds with an uneasy
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At one of our meetings at the National Holocaust Centre with whom we’re working on the Pervasive Monuments project, Adam Moore, our resident information scientist and geo-spatial guy said something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Here’s the summation to the best of my
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I’m pretty fed up with the future. The design world seems so absolutely obsessed with the idea of inventing the future that today, yesterday and anything that isn’t nearly as exciting as a jetpack or an augmented brain is seen as quite lame. Reality, as always, gets chucked
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This article is based on a talk given at the Lift Brussels Workshop and Council launch 4 Dec 2009. As an interaction designer I’m all about reality because making technology liveable or human compliant otherwise, is a big part of what I do. I like to think this means