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Saskia is a neighbour and collaborator - she was the first person to say 'yes' to my very confused and confusing request to work with her...
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Baruk Jacob
Jul 85 min read
Thinking Aloud w/ Sarah Clearwater
Sarah has been a friend and collaborator for a while, and it was a pleasure to be able to actually record a chat with her for others to...
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Baruk Jacob
Jun 24 min read
Thinking Aloud w/ Anaru Ah Kew, The Cause Collective
Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable: Designing for intergenerational health and wealth. - Jennifer Susanto In this interview,...
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Baruk Jacob
May 305 min read
Thinking Aloud w/ Emma Anderson, Youth Employability Aotearoa
Last week I had a fascinating chat with Emma Anderson at YEA (Youth Employability Aotearoa), discussing the change they are trying to...
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Baruk Jacob
Feb 131 min read
Doing a Haka
One of the reasons I started to research hashtag#emotion (and hashtag#innovation) was a desire to understand (and cope?) with my own. So...
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Baruk Jacob
Feb 61 min read
Courgettes
I love markets. I mean proper markets, where people of all sorts brush up against each other, looking for the best deal on…ah I...
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Baruk Jacob
Jan 1, 20241 min read
Hope
Between my own mental illness and the general state of the world, I find it quite easy to despair. And then…I look at the world around...
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Baruk Jacob
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Waitangi day, 2023
It’s a few years now since I heard Dr Ranginui Walker talk about how there are only two groups of people in Aotearoa New Zealand -...
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Baruk Jacob
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Opportunities, not problems
I've been wondering about replacing a 'problem-solving' frame with a 'opportunities' frame as we #design. This principle is embedded in...
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Baruk Jacob
Jan 4, 20231 min read
Coffee & Pluriverses
Much of the (#design) world around me seems obsessed with the ‘right’ and the ‘wrong’ way to do things, to think, to behave. My own...
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Baruk Jacob
Dec 21, 20221 min read
Knives
Context. In many other contexts, I would see an open display of knives in a public taxi as rather aggressive. Travelling in the rugged...
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Baruk Jacob
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Ka mua, ka muri.
I travelled to Palmerston North to meet a customer of ours, a Māori organisation who have been doing some massively inspiring work in the...
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Baruk Jacob
Nov 9, 20221 min read
Time
I’m increasingly curious about the role of *time* in design. How do we factor it in? It seems to me that we tend to allow the business to...
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Baruk Jacob
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Designing for *relational* outcomes
My regular coffee shop was a bit busier than usual this morning, and slightly under staffed. As a way to help us all, I offered to get...
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Baruk Jacob
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Reflection is a verb
When I joined the TSI/TWI/Auckland Co-design Lab, I learnt that in doing 'innovation', we learn to do what we don't quite know (yet)....
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Baruk Jacob
Oct 18, 20223 min read
Te Whare Tapa Whā & Emotional Capability
Shepherds Park, Beach Haven, Tāmaki Makaurau
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Baruk Jacob
Oct 8, 20222 min read
Claiming the edges as central
“I stood at the border, stood at the edge, and claimed it as central.” Toni Morrison (Morrison & Wendt, 1998) Scrolling slightly...
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Baruk Jacob
Sep 12, 20222 min read
Being Tangata Tiriti
Stop trying to be Māori, I don’t need you to be Māori – I’ve got that covered. I need you to be a good treaty partner. - Tina Ngata's...
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Baruk Jacob
Dec 13, 20210 min read
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Baruk Jacob
May 14, 20202 min read
Tweety birds and work-life boundaries
So, last night, I screwed up. On social media. It wasn’t the end of the world, not even nearly, and quite quickly and easily fixed. But I...
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