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A fireside chat

At this year's REMIX festival I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my dear friend Mark Pesce (alongside the marvellous Simone Chua from the light sculpture and immersive design studio Amigo and Amigo) on creative entrepreneurship – here is what I wish I'd known when I started out, and what

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Space, Place and 場

Let’s start with 場. In architectural theory we say that a place is a space with a history. But what about the present? What do we call a place where history is being created? A rich place full of interaction and possibility, a place for emerging relationships?

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Innovation and Creative Intelligence

After three years at the ABC, first as a UX and Innovation Strategy consultant and then as creative director of R&D, I’m moving on – taking on consulting work and writing up my PhD. And it’s wonderful to see how many amazing things are going on in the world.

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Creativity and Cognition 2011

Just back from Creativity and Cognition 2011, which was truly ace. I gave the paper I wrote with my co-supervisor, Prof. Ernest Edmonds, which people seemed to like. Saw some thought-provoking presentations and met a number of inspiring and wonderful people. Here are some highlights:

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Notes from a SIGGRAPH Panel on Successful Creative Collaboration Across Time & Space

What makes collaboration work? Let's hear from Tim McLaughlin (Texas A&M University), Tommy Burnette (Lucasfilm Singapore), Tim Fields (Certain Affinity), Jonathan Gibbs (DreamWorks Animation) and David Parrish (Reel FX Creative Studios).

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Imaginary tablets

For those of us interested in how humans interact with our machines, how socio-technical systems are made and how they make us, this is a precious moment. Tomorrow the probability waveforms collapse...

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Creativity and Cognition 2009

In a few hours I’m off to Berkeley for Creativity and Cognition 2009 to participate in the Graduate Symposium. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ben Shneiderman, Jane Prophet and my advisor Ernest Edmonds...

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The longer it takes you to catch on, the more visionary I get

Take a look at the wonderful, terrible Immersive Workspaces from Linden Lab and Rivers Run Red.

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Tap tap tap – a case study for distributed collaborative creativity.

Taptaptap make iPhone apps, but they’re not an old-fashioned development shop. Times have changed.