Profiled in Onoffice, January 2007

Little Brinkland has been featured in the onoffice magazine, January 2007. While one of the videos of the project can be seen on their website, if you fancy reading a three page interview, you can register online for a free copy!


Little Brinkland online, December 2006

The project 'Futurescapes of Work: a documentary from 2012' is now online. Please visit www.littlebrinkland.com to check out the design proposals and videos while I continue to upload more content...


Microsoft Research, Cambridge, 2006 - 2007

I am now working with the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge for the next six months. Looking forward to a new experience...


WorkTech 06, British Library, November 2006

Worktech 06, the 3rd annual coference looking at the convergence of technology and real estate, held at the British Library, showcased the Little Brinkland project, alongside other exhibits.




Futurescapes of Work: A documentary from 2012, September 2006

What will the world of work look as populations age, natural resources diminish and new technologies liberate us from the fixed office? The fictional neighbourhood Little Brinkland, set approximately in the year 2012 suggests some clues. Come and see my work at the Innovation RCA show, for the London Design Festival, from 23-27th September 2006. More information on the project will be uploaded shortly...

Yellow Chair San Jose dot net, August 2006

A house on the intersection of 10th and St John (San Jose, California) is offering free WiFi to neighbours and passersby from a yellow chair outside, becoming one node for a city network. A second yellow chair is roaming the open public hotspots downtown, where people are asked to share there music, pictures, movies, questions and viewpoints, with the first chair across the city... Come along... 'Yellow Chair San Jose' is live at ISEA 2006, from 7th to 13th August.


Sketch-a-Move at Ubicomp 2006, Orange County, July 2006

A collaboration with Matthiaz Kranz et al at LMU, Munich has lead to the development of fantastical (!) working prototypes of the Sketch-a-Move toy cars. The new video of the project to be presented at Ubicomp, Orange County, September 2006.


Little News from Brinkland

A work-in-progress report about the 'Little Brinkland' project published in Blueprint magazine, July '06.
Photographs of Little Brinkland to be exhibited in an exhibition titled 'Urban Expressions', organised by Brussels' based organisation: bazarts.org, vernissage: 24th June '06




Design and Wanderlust, May 2006

I am off to the give two talks at the Research Group Embedded Interaction, LMU, University of Munich. One is titled "Hardware. Software. Humanware". In this talk I discuss a 'people-centered approach to the design of technologies'. ( I know it does not sound very innovative, but hopefully I have a meaty presentation for the computer scientists at LMU.) The other one is titled "Design and Wanderlust", where I am going to talk about cinema, interaction design, fiction and digress into the world of nomadic traveling...


News of the travelling yellow chair, March 2006

1. California Calling: ISEA 2006!

Following the UNESCO Award for the 'Yellow Chair Stories' last year, the second phase of the project, titled 'Yellow Chair San Jose' in collaboration with Tom Jenkins, has been selected for Interactive City, ISEA 2006 +ZERO ONE SAN JOSE Festival, August 2006.

2. Reclaim the Spectrum, Zemos98, Spain

José Luis de Vicente has curated 'Reclaim the Spectrum', for ZEMOS98, showcasing works in the Hertzian Space, which anticipate a political and social debate somewhere between utopia and subversion. 'Yellow Chair Stories' is showcased alongside Usman Haque's 'Sky Ear', Jonah Brucker-Cohen's 'Wifi-Hog', and Michelle Teran's 'Life: A User's Manual'.

James Martin Institute, SAID Business School, Oxford, March 14-17.

Invited to do a small talk for Dorkfest, a festival of the London Dorkbotters, on Saturday 18th March '06, Boxing club, Limehouse Town Hall, London. (part of the NODE.L festivity)

Working towards a seminar for my design research project "Futurescapes of Work", to be attended by industry experts, keynote by John Thackara.

'Holy workspace' is how Bob Parks refers to the fibre optic sunlight table in his book 'Makers:' Published by O'Reilly Media, the Makers of Make magazine, the book celebrates the desire to tinker, tweak and hack. It reveals a unique collection of 100 makers with their DIY / technology / design projects from all over the world in a great publication.




Design Engaged 05, November 2005

Michele has been a star and will show my work at Design Engaged in Berlin. The conference line up looks fantastic and it should be a real fun event.




Enter05

Enter05 is Watermans Art Centre's unique platform to showcase emerging South Asian new media talent from London. Come and see our work from 1st to 30th November, 12 - 9pm, daily.


Interaction Design Research at the Royal College of Art 2005-06

Associating some of my time on a design research project at the Helen Hamlyn Research centre and Interaction Design Research Studio, RCA, London. Few key words: multigenerational workplaces, technologies of the future, ageing populations, drivers of change, knowledge sharing, memory banks, mobility narratives...

UNESCO Digital Arts Award, October 2005

A proposal to take the 'Yellow Chair Stories' project into a second phase and place it in a wider context of urban life has been awarded the 3rd prize in the UNESCO Digital Art Awards competition. 242 projects were submitted under the theme of 'urban play and locative media'.

Dorkboting on 19th October, 2005

"Yellow chairs, thrills of the 'open' world and some hidden agendas" was the topic of my talk on 19th October at Dorkbot London, Boxing club, Limehouse Town Hall. Here are some images from the Dorkbot London / Pool.


Sunlight Table at InnovationRCA, 2005

InnovationRCA organised a major exhibition of graduate innovations at the Royal College of Art, to coincide with the London Design Festival. The Sunlight Table exhibited for 15 days before finding its new home in Oxford. 10am to 6pm, 27th September to 12th October 2005.


'Yellow Chair Stories' at UBICOMP 2005

'Yellow Chair Stories' presented at UBICOMP, an international conference on ubiquitous computing in Tokyo, Japan, September 2005.



Inclusive Design Award, 2005

'Sunlight Table' wins the 1st Prize "GMW Award for Working Life" in the Design for Our Future Selves Awards 2005 for the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre for Inclusive Design.

'Like Nowhere Else' RCA 2005

The RCA degree show is on! Come and visit us in the Interaction Design exhibition. Also check out some images from the show. A glimpse of my work in the show: Yellow Chair Stories, The Sunlight Table, Sketch-a-move.

'Sketch-a-move' featured, MAKE, 2005

MAKE magazine's inaugural issue features the 'sketch-a-move' project, April 2005
Sketch-a-move also to be featured in Bill Buxton's forthcoming book on "Sketching and Interaction Design".


Grand Prix for 'Journeys', 2005

'Journeys' a 35mmdocumentary film which I produced wins the 'Grand Prix OMCT Award' at the prestigious Geneva International Film Festival, March 2005


Distinction for MA Dissertation, 2005

Awarded Distinction for my MA Dissertation "Conversations under the Banyan Tree - Ubiquitous technologies in India and the West", RCA 2005



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