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What's innovation good for?

Event
Battle of Ideas festival 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Royal College of Arts, London

A debate about what kind of innovation do we need? Newer, cooler iPads and faster, sleeker cars? Or might we have higher aspirations for human ingenuity and economic dynamism?

The rise of the clicktivists: will the revolution be digitised?

Speech
Battle of Ideas festival 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Royal College of Arts, London

Is the internet just another tool in the activists’ toolbox, accelerating normal protests, or has it brought about fundamental changes?

Debated blue-skies thinking on Radio 4's PM programme

Speech
PM programme, Radio 4
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Is blue-skies thinking just a management cliche or is it something we should pursue, at a time when big thinking seems so out of fashion today?

The future of Internet retailing

Speech
London College of Fashion
Saturday, June 11, 2011

University of the Arts, London College of Fashion, London

What are the key trends that small businesses should be aware of and learn from, including advances in technologpy to innovations in how leading retailers promote and develop their services online. 

Can Design change the World? And should it try?

Speech
Designers Society
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Plymouth University, Plymouth

Is it irresponsible to want design that is radical, experimental, is risky and that can challenge the brief? Or if not, then what is design for? And why does any of this matter?

Big Potatoes: Innovation, Science, R&D and the General Election

Event
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Royal Society, London

The launch event of the Big Potatoes maniesto.

Can design change the world (and should it try)?

Speech
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Designers Society talk, in association with Plymouth University Faculty of Art Plymouth

Is it irresponsible to want design that is radical, experimental, is risky and that can challenge the brief? Or if not, then what is design for? And why does any of this matter?

Designing behaviour and healthcare

Speech
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Social Policy Forum, London

Is this behaviour led approach more benevolent than the old universal model, will it result in better healthcare, or is it unacceptably authoritarian?

Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Health

Speech
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Battle of Ideas festival 2009, Royal College of Art, London

Everyone agrees healthcare needs to be improved, but can attempts to alter patients’ and staff’s behaviour succeed? And will focusing on patient satisfaction be enough to transform the NHS and wider healthcare provision?

Shaping Social Policy: Designers and Crime

Speech
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Forget the police: a new crime-buster is on the block. Designers claim they can lead the charge in the fight against crime.

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