NEWS
NOV 2008
+ Invited by Svensk Form to speak at Pecha Kucha in Stockholm on the 6th. Topic: language as a design medium.
OCT 2008
+ Confirmed to participate and speak at this year's Designboost in Malmö, Sweden. Topic: "personalising public space".
JUL 2008
+ I.D. magazine's Annual Design Review features my "Getting Personal with Global Warming" design concept on page 160!
JAN 2008
+ I've been invited to speak early April in Östersund, Sweden, at a conference hosted by The Globalization Council of the Swedish Government and Färgfabriken, "laboratory of the contemporary." Sounds magical.
+ Adobe Think Tank piece on fictional products, in which Chochinov talks to me about NonObject.
SEP 2007
+ Designboost website now up and running.
+ A nice Emergence review by CORE 77’s Allan Chochinov. Full article.
+ It's off to Hong Kong before too long. I've been invited to coordinate and moderate INNO ASIA 07, an annual conference co-organized by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks and the Hong Kong Design Centre. This year's theme: "Innovating for Sustainability."
AUG 2007
+ This just in: on Sep 8 I'll be speaking at Carnegie-Mellon's Emergence 2007, a conference whose aim is to explore "the boundaries of service design."
+ Come mid-October, I'm off to Sweden for the first time - woo hoo! - to participate in a design event organized by David Carlson. It's based in Malmö. It's called Designboost. It's all about sustainability.
JUL 2007
+ Wow, apparently I'm the "July/August diva of the month"!!
JUN 2007
+ The first week of June kicks off design 21, a new “social design” site sponsored by UNESCO and Felissimo. I’ve been invited to be its resident weekly blogger!
+ My podcast is now officially up and running!
MAY 2007
+ I’ll be presenting sola and chatting about “sustaining change” with Sarah Rich from Worldchanging @ Tomorrow Unlimited, over two weekends in June: New York (6/7-6/9) and Los Angeles (6/14-6/17).
MAR 2007
+ Hear, hear, for design conferences that spur yet more design conferences! I’ll be speaking at Luminous Green in Brussels, Belgium, over its run Apr 27-30. It’s a retreat, workshop and (Power Point-free) symposium on ecologically-inspired and sustainable worlds.
FEB 2007
+ So far, '07 is a year of exciting design-related travel. At the end of the month, I'll be boarding a plane for Delhi to attend the Doors of Perception conference. This year's theme is Juice: Food, Energy, Design. I'm looking forward to participating in the Round Table activities – including a "watermapping" exercise – and the plenary itself on March 3, replete with ripe food projects the world over.
JAN 2007
+ I’m heading to Japan on the 18th to speak about social innovation, at a design conference put on by the IdcN (International Design Centre Nagoya).
OCT 2006
+ Coming soon: DESIGNERADIO, a new podcast that looks at the world through the lens of design.
SEP 2006
+ Massive Change exhibition opens at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Sep 15. I’ll be there with bells on, signing books!
NOV 2005
+ Brussels’ magazine Knack does a profile piece.
+ Danish architecture magazine Arkitekten features an article on my Era05 presentation.
OCT 2005
+ On the 27th, I’m off to participate in a design symposium called "What Crisis? Design and society in times of confusion" at Utrecht Manifest, biennial for conscientious design.
SEP 2005
+ Era 05: World Design Congress in Copenhagen. I’ll talk about the future of design and collaborative tools for qualitative change.
+ CALA, the University of Minnesota's College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, has invited me to speak about the role of design in shaping public space (Sep 19).
+ International upholstery trade fair Decosit 2005, "the worldwide touch," takes place in conjunction with DecoContract Sep 10-13 at Brussels Expo, Belgium. An article I wrote on materials is featured.
JUN 2005
+ To my delight, I was just awarded 2nd jury prize in a "Postindustrial Design" competition, created by Hyperwerk in Basel, Switzerland.
MAY 2005
+ I’m to speak in Berlin, Germany for the "Blueprints of Tomorrow" symposium at DESIGNMAI.
JAN 2005
+ Massive Change: The Future of Global Design (Phaidon, 2004) was just voted one of top five books by Wallpaper* magazine.