Andy Polaine
Simon Rattle on Education
“We have been educating people for many years to be a certain type of person. We have been educating for a society that maybe is gone. We need more and …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Desktop columns online - onlab
Desktop magazine are republishing some of my previous Foreign Policy columns for their website. It’s good to see these get a new lease of life. The first …
Learning to Teach Online - a great new resource
COFA Online has just launched an excellent new resource for lecturers getting into online teaching and learning. I have taught in several other institutions in …
Hello Dave. I'd like to interview you.
Hi folks – can you help me find some interviewees? I’m working on some initial research into Ambient Assisted Living with the iHome Lab here in Luzern. …
COTEN Project Presentation at SDNC 2010
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on the COTEN Project at the Service Design Network Conference in Berlin. Here is the direct link to my COTEN …
Writing a new book on Service Design
I’m thrilled to be able to announce that myself and live|work’s Ben Reason and Lavrans Løvlie have signed with Rosenfeld Media to write our book on …
DeSForM 2010 - 6th International Workshop on Design Semantics of Form and Movement
It seems it’s conference season. My colleague, Dagmar Steffen, is organising the DeSForM 2010, the 6th International Workshop on Design Semantics of Form …
Interaction 11 Student Competition
All you interaction design students out there get ready to show us your goods. This year I’m co-chairing the Interaction 11 Student Competition with Liz …
The Virtues of Imperfection
I have enjoyed all of Jonathan Franzen’s books, in particular The Corrections, his novel about the complexities of family relationships, careers and, for …
Crowd-sourced insights into the Victorian workhouse
The UK National Archives have just released the 19th Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Records. The history of workhouses in the UK is a typically Victorian …
You Don't Know Jack lives again
A long, long time ago in the early days of ‘multimedia’ most games available were stilted click-throughs of badly rendered 3D images. The exception …
Core77 Columnista
I’m very pleased to have been asked to be a columnist for the Core77 blog. It’s been in the works for a few weeks, but my recent trip to Ethiopia …
Mentoring Creative Minds
The current issue of COFA’s Incubate magazine has a piece by me in it called Mentoring Creative Minds, which is a reflection on 15 years of teaching …
Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity
(Picture from Aquent’s E-Fail service) Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity Interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinarity have been buzzwords for …
Teaching, Learning and Mazes
The COTEN project is gaining momentum and there are some excellent discussions going on. A lot of the conversation is about different teaching and institutional …