‘thesis’ Archive

Seeding: prototyping ‘in the wild’

Over the last few years I’ve experienced a real change in the kinds of design services that might be needed by, or offered to, clients – especially working in the not for profit and community sectors. As we all know, more and more organisations are beginning to see the potential for social technologies to engage [...]

What is design?

As part of establishing the theoretical building blocks for my thesis I have been writing a position on design, and design research. To my surprise a debate about the nature of both has spring up again on the PhD Design list, I say surprise because I sort of thought that the discourse had stabilized somewhat, [...]