Works
DRS Festival of Emergence
https://drsfestivalofemergence.org/ The DRS Festival of Emergence is envisioned as a new type of DRS event. Not as formal as a…
Relating to Things
Book cover artwork for Bloomsbury. Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial, Edited by the excellent Heather Wiltse.
Patient autonomy in dementia
This diagram describes the complexities of suffering in dementia; the loss of a biographical self before the physical self, the…
Being on time
What does ‘being on time’ mean across different cultures? Borne out of a fascination on how people interpret time, and…
A planned death
Knowing when and how you will die could be a good thing. It would allow you to maximise your quality…
Assessing suffering
From 2020 Dutch citizens are required to wear “quality-of-life” jewellery, to collect vital statistics, as well as assign a team…
Design Now!
Søren Rosenbak and I developed a branding for Design Now! seminar at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar was…
An early diagnosis
In order to be able to make any decisions about end-of-life in dementia, it is essential to have an early…
Not a burden?
A common reason for an euthanasia request in dementia is that people do not want to become a burden. This…
Hybrid Encounters
Wonderful to work with Nina again on creating an identity for “Hybrid Encounters”, events devoted to the dialogue between art and…
The Plug
This design fiction critically investigates Advance Euthanasia Directives in Dementia based on person autonomy. aed-plug.com
Design Star Summer School
Fun to work for my funders: Design Star, and with Rachel and the Design Star student volunteer team for the…
DRS
A great opportunity to redevelop The Design Research Society visual identity.
Leaders for Impact
Wonderful to work with Hannah Bird from Bird & Gorton again on an identity for their brainchild “Leaders for Impact”,…
Contextual euthanasia timeline
I wanted to make clear how the euthanasia debate is influenced primarily by medical innovation. Since medicine has improved to…
Dead man’s switch
A dead man’s switch is a switch that is automatically operated if the human operator becomes incapacitated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch I am interested…
Canary in the coal mine
Your own “canary” that will measure levels of acceptability of your living conditions – depending on personalised criteria. The canary…
Foundation 5
We set up an initiative in bringing together Emergency Medicine and Design, resulting in Foundation 5. Foundation 5 is a…
Dementia book
How can design be meaningful for dementia patients?
Fostering empathy for Dementia patients
The Cognitive Design course at Umeå Institute of Design (UID) 2016 was aimed at generating understanding on what it is like to have dementia.
Transformative Homes for Sensuous Dementia
The 2016 edition of the “Design for Social Innovation” course at the MA Industrial Design at the Technical University in Eindhoven….
Fifty Years of Failures
50 years is half a century. In a sense it’s a crossroad, where we (design researchers) look simultaneously towards the past and the future. As a critical, constructive hinge between past and future, the following question was put forward to a range of different design scholars affiliated to the DRS in various ways…
Carbon 12
CARBON 12, a collaborative exhibition between Cape Farewel and EDF opened at Espace Foundation EDF, Paris on 3 May 2012, with work focusing…
Tunnel Jam
We collaborated with Urb-Orbis to create this international BMX event in 2009. At the time BMX was losing some of…
Friggebod
Friggebod: a small house of up to 15 square meters of floor space with a maximum of 3 meters to…
Worlds in Transit
Summer of 2012, we invited a group of artists, filmmakers, astronomers, photographers, choreographers and curators to journey to the remote…
Wayfinding course
A collaboration project with Umeå University Library and students from Umeå Institute of Design. We created an exhibition that critically…
Propaganda course
This was a one week course, part of a larger project, in collaboration with The Guitar Museum in Umeå. Students…
Umeå Institute of Design
As well as lecturing in communication design and all it’s off-spins (information, interaction, identity, wayfinding), I also work on all…
Royal Academy of Arts
‘Earth, Art of a changing world’ was an exhibition at the GSK Contemporary Gallery, part of The Royal Academy in…
Burning Ice
In 2001 the artist David Buckland created the Cape Farewell project to instigate a cultural response to climate change. Cape…
Nike SB Janoski
The bespoke NikeSB Janoski shoe featured an interesting campaign based on preservation. The shoe itself was presented in a bottle….
Nike SB P-Rod
Nike SB launched a bespoke P-Rod Shoe. P-Rod is a bit of a skate geek, so we created a Trivial…
Nike 6.0 Launch
The action sports audience; skateboarders, surfers and BMX-ers, are fickle. A new brand, or rather, a well-known commercial brand would…
Nike 6.0 POS
The initial launch of NKE6.0 was a huge success. So much so that action sports now takes it’s place amongst…
Nike SB Blueprint
The Blueprint Nike SB shoe. Blueprint is a well know UK skate brand, and the shoe celebrated the very best…
DRS2014 – Design’s Big Debates
The Design Research Society is the longest established multi-disciplinary worldwide society for the design research community. It was time for…
