Organic and bio-based solar cells to the rescue. — Promises about harnessing energy from the sun can be traced all the way back to 1839. And in 1884, American inventor Charles Fritts installed the first solar panels on a rooftop in New York City. Today, Australia leads the world in solar per capita but… the problem of solar panel…

Tokyo 37.39 million residents Delhi 30.29 million residents Shanghai 27.05 million residents São Paulo 22.04 million residents Ciudad de México (Mexico City) 21.78 million residents Dhaka 21 million residents Al-Qahirah (Cairo) 20.9 million residents Beijing 20.46 million residents Mumbai (Bombay) 20.41 million residents Kinki M.M.A. (Osaka) 19.16 million residents … …

It’s nearly 2020, and we must admit that our collective reality looks nothing like what it used to back in 2010. Siri and Alexa. 4K screen resolution. IBM’s Watson. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas. Tesla’s Cybertruck. 4D printing. 5G technology. Same-sex marriage. The #metoo movement. Greta Thunberg. Jacinda Ardern. CRISPR/Cas9. The Higgs…

Service Design—the design of services—is a funny beast. Deeply rooted in the 60s’ democratic and inclusive Scandinavian cooperative design movement, its name actually comes from the corporate sector where it was first described using a particle physics analogy. “(Service Design) suggests that behavioural hypothesis, which rearranges or alters any element…

*October 2020 update: thanks for the thousands of reads! This article is a critique of the tool-kit approach to designing from my days in industry. For those of you coming here to read about decentering the human from the design process and advocacy for futures in which both people and…

A finalist entry of the inaugural 2018 NGV Victorian Design Challenge — “In 2016 the Victorian Government announced a major new initiative to support, celebrate and enable Victoria’s design sector. Curated and presented by the NGV in collaboration with Creative Victoria, the Victorian Design Program is a year-long roster of design and architecture-focused events and activities culminating in Melbourne Design Week each March.

From the value of design to design-led value creation — In 2013 the US-based Design Management Institute started to track the value of publicly held companies that met specific design management criteria and proved that, over the span of ten years, design-led companies maintain significant stock market advantage, outperforming the S&P Index by a remarkable 200+ percent each year. More…