Innovation 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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Book Launch
 On 25 April the book Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines will be launched in Cambridge during the Enter_Unknown Territories festival. The following day (Thursday 26...
View ArticlePick n Mix: Consumers combining electronic and conventional service channels
by Geke van Dijk, Shailey Minocha and Angus Laing. Published in a special issue of the journal Interacting With Computers, Volume 19, Issue 1, Elsevier, 2006. (PDF, 540 KB)
View ArticleMorals, Ethics, Meaning and Quality
A few talks I attended in recent weeks have  helped me in thinking about issues I had been struggling with. The first talk was by Anne Galloway, who gave an excellent key note speech at the...
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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Enter_Unkown Territories
We just visited the  festival and conference Enter_Unknown Territories for new technology art that took place from 25 to 29 April 2007 in Cambridge. Various artists and media activists/inventors...
View ArticleSoapboxes in cyberspace
On 15 May the third session of the Innovation Forum, organised by Nico MacDonald, was hosted in th Guardian Newsroom in London. The topic for the evening was ‘Soapboxes in cyberspace’. The...
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Presentations in Amsterdam and Eindhoven
 On the first of June we will give presentations about our PhD research projects and STBY in Amsterdam at Nemo. Talks start at 6pm, but come early and have drinks on the wonderful roof of NEMO,...
View ArticleRich viz – Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. Paper on design documentaries, published in ‘Rich Viz! Inspiring design teams with rich vizualizations’, edited by Pieter Jan Stappers et al., StudioLab Press, Delft University of...
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Charles Leadbeater at Culture 2.0
 The key note speech by Charles Leadbeater during the Culture 2.0 conference in Amsterdam (30 May 2007) as more inspiring than I had expected from reading his book We Think. I may have misunderstood...
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Bas shows at The Great Exhibition in London
 The results of my PhD project Design Documentaries will be exhibited at the summer show of the Royal College of Art, The Great Exhibition 2007. The show runs from 15-28 June, 10am-6pm, admission...
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Smart textiles
For the conference How Smart Are We?, organised by Design Plus in London, STBY produced two design documentaires and creative workshops on the themes Drift and Swim. The first theme explored how smart...
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Travel stories
STBY has recently completed a long-term research on the use of travel related e-services. The main question was how consumers choose between using online and offline channels. The results show that...
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Design Documentaries
Design documentaries are a new, visual way of bringing everyday life into design processes, as a source of inspiration. This method is used in the early stages of design processes, when designers want...
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