MIT

Sunday, 03. 10. 2013  –  Category: Service Design

In February of this year, in my capacity as part time tutor at Glasgow School of Art, I was lucky enough to visit the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students undertaking the MSc International Management and Design Innovation course run in conjunction with Glasgow University were, along with a number of international partners, [...]

Social Design

Wednesday, 02. 15. 2012  –  Category: Service Design

Between around 2006 and 2008 I was Technical Director, then Director, of a Scottish Enterprise project based out of the Lighthouse in Glasgow called Urban Learning Space. It was a great little organisation with an ambitious and commendable mission statement:a learning lab equipping the people of Scotland with the capabilities to face the challenges of [...]

British Council: Future City Game

Tuesday, 07. 12. 2011  –  Category: Service Design

During my time with Urban Learning Space at the Lighthouse in Glasgow, the team won the contract to develop the ‘Future City Game’ with the British Council. The project was part of the Creative Cities initiative and involved bringing together creative people from a variety of sectors within a city who, through playing the game, [...]

CINeSPACE

Monday, 07. 11. 2011  –  Category: Service Design

CINeSPACE, like IMPROVE was a project funded by the FP6 Programme and was also associated with the Information Society Technologies (IST) theme. The mandate was to: Design and implementation a mobile rich media collaborative information exchange platform, scalable , accessible through a wide variety of networks, and therefore, interoperable and Location-Based for the promotion of [...]