This is just a few notes for a design fiction on future economies.

Taking responsibility is hard. Organisations, like private corporations and governments, have however, found a way of avoiding that responsibility and that hard work.

It is a form of judo. Using the weight and momentum of the issue and flipping it so it ends up being transferred to someone else.

In…

This is prototype for a workshop for young people who are starting a new cultural codesign project.

I have 90 minutes to offer some advice. What I hope to do is:

• validate their feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability and show they are strengths
• offer some skills on communicating better and…

Human-centered design is about understanding the contexts of people.

• Their individual physical and cognitive capacities
• Their learnt, provided or missing capabilities
• Their communities that include and exclude them.

The centering is not tightening or selfish: it’s not a user or consumerist sense of individualism.

It is broadening and generous: placing the person more fully into their embodied and extended sense of being human.

Alignment has been coming up in a lot of my reading over the last year. In books on Wayfinding, Time Perception, Dissent, Kindness and Leadership it’s the anchor of alignment that comes thru as a common theme.

The need to be aligned at the start of a project or journey…

I am running a free 2 hour workshop by Zoom on ideas around designing hybrid workshops at the beginning of November (9th November at 7pm (London)). You read about it on my website at Designing Hybrid Workshops.

This post is to describe the purpose and structure of the workshop.

Sharing Wonder

This post is about Time and Activities in workshops.

How to think critically of time allocated to the different elements of activities that workshop participants find value in.

Pre-Activity

Instructions

Question: how long does it take to explain the workshop activity?

Explaining what an activity is, what its outputs are to be…

When working on accessible design projects, people often centre their discussions on defining impairments and how to use technologies and services to bridge the gap between such impaired capacities and “normal” capacities. This is a deficit model of design. Design fixing human failings.

What this model fails to notice is…