Blog - weekly updates on things seen or heard

Drawing water challenge

Drawing water challenge

Dec 15, 2006

This competition, aimed at finding an original idea that could help many impoverished people gain access to safe water and...
stuff

the darfur wall

Dec 14, 2006

This came via infoaestheitcs blog – what a great visualisation…
making invisible visible

European Construction Technology Platform Conference

Nov 23, 2006

In Versaille at the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP) conference. The ECTP has been created to establish a voice for...
events

City Centre Retail

Nov 17, 2006

Coming up in the pipeline of the *of the future* series of workshops is on the subject of station retail....
drivers of change

Innovation Reading Circle

Nov 16, 2006

Nico Macdonald did an excellent job of hosting the first Innovation Reading Circle today. The theme was sustainability, design and...
books innovation

WorkTech06

Nov 7, 2006

Attended WorkTech06 conference and exhibition on 7.11.06 at the British Library in London. It all sounded familiar and cannot point...
how to work

innovations in washing

Oct 24, 2006

I thought this was urban myth but maybe not, anyway, good story from our current chairman…
stuff

PhD: Ambient and ubiquitous designs for context-aware navigation

Oct 23, 2006

This is a fully funded three year PhD studentship in collaboration with ARUP. The overall aim of the project is...
IoT ubiquitous computing

we think - draft book for comment

Oct 10, 2006

Charles Leadbeater was a speaker at our first Hotel of the Future conference back in 2002. He gave an excellent...
books
ICT in FP7 – opportunities for UK

ICT in FP7 – opportunities for UK

Oct 6, 2006

Notes from FP6 UK Information Society Technologies meeting at DTI conference centre 06.10.06 to launch the the ICT component of...
research and funding