Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Re-imagining Higher Education

Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are …

The Play Ethic and Sustainability

For a very long time now (since 2005 in fact), Pat Kane’s book, The Play Ethic has been on my Amazon Wishlist (hint, hint) along with several other books …

Invitation to play at the Game / Play exhibition

I recently wrote a catalogue essay called The Invitation to Play (thanks to Mark Pesce for that phrase) for the Game/Play networked exhibition displayed …

Fleabilly strikes again

Okay, so a pure vanity post here. A couple of wonderful photos from Fleabilly a.k.a Ray Lewis of me in London. Don’t ask about the mask. It was just lying …

Home Entertainment

colette_window.jpg The folks over at Fabrica have created a new interaction installation called Home Entertainment for the windows of “style, design, art, …

Time Sketches (2006)

Time Smear in action Time Smear and Time Slicer form part of a series of live video works called Time Sketches that experiment with interactivity and the …

Necessary Procrastination

Interaction guru, John Maeda suggests that procrastination might be useful after all (hey, I bet that’s what you’re doing right now right? Reading …