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Design Strategy The ability to influence corporate strategy and portfolio planning based on deep understanding and analysis of consumer, technology and market/industry trends, and translating insights and strategies into tangible and compelling product directions through visualization. Sets direction and targets … Continue reading
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A few assorted bits I found related to Design Fiction whilst following a link somewhere, to somewhere else. The future – a rough guide which is a blog by this fellow Jon Turney. Can Science Fiction be Lab Lit? – … Continue reading
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…and apparently available only in the UK presently. John Marshall and I have a manifesto-y essay towards the end of this. Marshall and Bleecker, in their essay, propose the term “undisciplinary” for the type of work prevalent in this book. … Continue reading
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Well, I missed the Week Ending last week so I’ll capture a couple of the things that happened then, now. There were a cacophony of tasks to be done, some fun, some that should’ve been fun, and all that tipped … Continue reading
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This book Digital Blur — in which John Marshall and I have a sort of drunken, double-bandolier-wearing bandito-style essay on *undisciplinarity — will launch on April 27th in London at The Architectural Association Bookshop, which is a fantastic bookshop anyway … Continue reading
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A curious book won the Pulitzer Prize, I just heard. It’s called Tinkers What I found most intriguing about the news story is that the book was published by a small specialty publisher — Bellevue Literary Press, which is associated … Continue reading
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Rough edges of perhaps more a near future design fiction story — A data lawsuit/class action forcing Google to make recompense to those from whom it made money derived from their actions/activities that were subsequently stored, archived, or algorithmically manipulated … Continue reading
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It was an insane week on the side of things happening between homes..a move. Number 3 on the list of the most traumatic things that can happen in life, I’ve been told. ((I may’ve misheard, but it made sense at … Continue reading
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There are a variety of ways to measure the degrees to which an *out there idea becomes somehow normalized and convention: (in no particular order) (1) It becomes bandied about at conferences and lectures and so forth; (2) Someone writes … Continue reading
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Phil L’s clan motto, translated into English. They are able, because they seem so. Further to the point of how stories, ideas and language can shape the world in material ways, this came out of the blue on the thread … Continue reading