Chris was at Poptech 2007 last week. Great blog coverage at blogginglive and a nice post by Ethan Zuckerman. Chris used the DoC voting app to canvass opinion on current drivers. The top votes (today) with 85 are Peak Oil and Climate Change with US Fascism taking 59…

The Aurora is huge, a giant skyscraper fallen on its side floating in the sea. It reminded me of one of the concepts developed at a Hotel of the Future event we held in Lausanne a few years ago. I must find out what the staff to guest ratio is

Andrew Walkingshaw – *sketching* data by creating simple query interfaces based on structured data repositories. Had similarities to the Bricks framework. Generated quite a discussion around how and who should be marking up the content. I liked one of Tim O’Reilly’s comments *you need to create the context for a

154 sessions to choose from – hmmm, how do i do that… Visual Garage – We’ll Fix Your Graphs and Visuals with Felice Frankel. Interesting session. Managed to present and get feedback on the Bop visualisations and had some great (if severe) comments. But that is what was great –

The best bit about conferences is actually the time you get to spend with people over lunch, in the breaks and in the bar in the evening. The sci foo events are designed to so that all the time is spent doing those three things… Arrive at Building 43, Google,

One of the most exciting emails this year came in a month or so ago – an invitation to Science Foo Camp from Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly) and Timo Hannay (Nature) at Google Plex in Mount View, CA. Have just had a quick look at the camp wiki and it already

Whilst in Helsinki i could not resist going to the Left Foot Company and getting measured for a pair of shoes. This was definately the most pleasant shoe purchase i have ever made. Extremely friendly (not pushy) staff, quick but thorough service and in a location that seemed like someones

The FII team have just completed an impressive briefing (I can be complementary since I was not involved…) at the Arup General Annual Meeting (150 of the firms directors). Chris did a brief intro talking about how “change is constant, context is variable – our work is about looking at

54000 responses to the survey – pretty good sample size… look at what the crowd of 18-21 year olds are saying about our world in 2031- thanks to Caf for the link.

A kind review of our Drivers of Change cards at Chip Overclock™ blog. Nice to be compared alongside Brian Eno, Tom Peters and IDEO.

Came across this report at Sponge a *sustainabilty development network for property and construction professionals in the UK* via the developing news blog. The MORI report commisioned by Sponge looked at the demand for zero carbon development. An interesting shift in public opinion reports that 64% of homeowners want sustainable

Engineering News Review podcast a conversation with Chris on the drivers of change research project.

The results from our Drivers of Change survey at the National Retail Federation Conference are up on the driversofchange.com site. Roll over the drivers to see how many votes were cast.

The Arup Foresight Innovation and Incubation team was invited to exhibit in a Design Studio at the National Retail Federation Convention & Expo (12th-14th Jan). The emphasis of the three-day studio programme was to raise awareness of the importance of design in retail. Arup presence included an exhibit in the

Coming up in the pipeline of the *of the future* series of workshops is on the subject of station retail. We have started work with the Narrative Environments students at CSM to create a series of future narratives around this theme. First design crit was held today and work is