Design Documentaries: Inspiring Design Research Through Documentary Film
by Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver and Jon Bishay. Presented at DIS2006 conference in State College, Pennsylvania. (PDF, 3.5 MB)
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Smart molecules
This is a really smart product! Embedded in the knitwear this cap contains D3O material. It is flexible as long as you move in a ‘normal’ way, but locks together on shock. We have been using caps like...
View ArticleDesign and Innovation
A seminar on Creativity Technology & Design, organised by the Tanaka Business School of Imperial College during London Design Festival, clearly showed that business strategist are warming up to the...
View ArticleUncommon Ground
During the Crossmedia Week PICNIC06 in Amsterdam, an interesting workshop on knowledge sharing between academia and industry took place, organised by The Virtual Platform and the Utrecht School of the...
View ArticleEthnography in industry
In collaboration with the People and Practices Group from Intel, STBY organised and moderated a workshop on the use of ethnographic research practices within companies. A wide range of researchers from...
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Food for Thought
InnovationRCA has just published an interesting book by Toke Barter and R√© Dubhthaigh from Radarstation. This book, ‘Food for Thought: A service based approach to embedding innovation‘, addresses...
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Thrill Laboratory
Just spent a thrilling evening at the Dana Centre in London. The theme was Fairground – Thrill Laboratory. A full evening programme about the pleasures of thrill seeking behaviour. Some serious talks,...
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Innovation Reading Circle 01
Initiated by Nico Macdonald, the Innovation Reading Circle convenes on a bi-monthly basis to discuss recent books on innovation. For the first session we read Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling and...
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Convivio workshop
On 4-5 December the Technical University Eindhoven hosted a workshop organised by the European Convivio Network to discuss the big issues for interaction design during the coming 5 years, as well as...
View ArticleIndependents Christmas Lunch
For the second year Gill Wildman and Nick Durrant from Plot organised a Christmas lunch for independents working in the creative industry. And again it was a lovely event. It is a joy to spend an...
View ArticleDesign Research for Service Innovation
Our creative research projects connect organisations with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their...
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User-driven innovation
Just finished a chapter for a book on knowledge sharing in the creative industry. The book ‘Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines’ will be published by Bis Publishers in...
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Innovation Reading Circle 02
The second meeting of the Innovation Reading Circle was again very interesting. This time the theme was User-Led Innovation.¬†The books we read and discussed were: ‘Democratising Innovation‘ by Eric...
View ArticleInnovation processes
Jeremy Myerson, the director of InnovationRCA, presented his views on innovation processes during a talk organised by the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre. He described three phases in this process: the...
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Who wants tomorrow’s papers?
The launch event of the Innovation Forum London was themed ‘Who wants tomorrow’s papers?’. It addressed the synergy between online and offline newspapers and asked the question what we can¬† learn from...
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Bottom-up innovation
Rob van Kranenburg presented his thoughts on the increasingly strained relationship between formal and informal networks. He showed a rich collection of examples of bottom-up online and sensor-based...
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Include 2007
From 1 to 4 April the RCA hosted the Include 2007 conference, organised by the Helen Hamlyn Centre. About 150 people from all over the world gathered to present and discuss inclusive design projects....
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Four Corners of London
The exhibition Four Corners presents a series of interesting multi-media portraits of people living in East, West, North and South London. The portraits are made by the local residents showing their...
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Critical Design
The exhibition Designing Critical Design in Z33  (Hasselt, Belgium) gives an excellent overview of the works by Jurgen Bey, Martí Guixé and Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby. They all produce works...
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Being Here
On 11 April Caroline Nevejan successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam. She is a good friend of ours and we are really proud of her. The title of her dissertation is...
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