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Engineers, be bold - Britain needs grander designs

The Independent

Monday, October 8, 2012

A dearth of real engineering ambition is holding back the sector. Big, ambitious projects are needed to put us back on track.

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Debate: In both manufacturing and services, design is pivotal to economic growth?

PDI Conference 2012

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Product Design + Innovation, ExCel, London
Head-to-head debate with James Woudhuysen and Martyn Perks speaking against the motion; Clive Grinyer and Andrea Siodmok speaking for the motion. For all full review, read this article on the PDI website.

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Making it in the 21st Century

Battle of Ideas festival 2012

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Barbican Centre, London. For tickets, book from the Barbican website. For the full festival programme, visit the Battle of Ideas website.

Conveyning and introducing the strand of five debates.

Is it game over for manufacturing in the developed economies or might America stage a comeback? Can there be a rebalancing of production to the west and consumption to the east? Will gas galore provide the cheap energy to fuel that possibility? Does design drive engineering or the other way round? Why do we suffer droughts in wet old Britain? And is file sharing just stealing?

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Battle over the Internet

Manchester Salon

Thursday, November 1, 2012

John Dalton C0.14 Lecture Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Manchester M1 5GDBook tickets in advance and online via Eventbrite.

Norman Lewis, Mindy Gofton and Keith Teare will introduce a discussion about our aspirations for using the Internet.

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Apple v Samsung: innovation’s the loser

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Tech giants are devoting more energy to defending patents than they are to coming up with new ideas.

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Social software - get real

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Community, democracy and social capital don't come at the click of a mouse.

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Computing communities

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Software geeks are turning into social engineers.

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'A mob for no reason'

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Email gangs come together - and go away again.

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What iCan can't do

Thursday, November 20, 2003

The BBC's new website will not build community or rescue democracy.

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Dean and not heard

Friday, February 6, 2004

Howard Dean's virtual network was a poor substitute for political conviction.

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