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...

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...

Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable: Designing for intergenerational health and wealth. - Jennifer Susanto In this interview,...

Last week I had a fascinating chat with Emma Anderson at YEA (Youth Employability Aotearoa), discussing the change they are trying to...

One of the reasons I started to research hashtag#emotion (and hashtag#innovation) was a desire to understand (and cope?) with my own. So...

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...

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...

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 -...

I've been wondering about replacing a 'problem-solving' frame with a 'opportunities' frame as we #design. This principle is embedded in...

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...

Context. In many other contexts, I would see an open display of knives in a public taxi as rather aggressive. Travelling in the rugged...

I travelled to Palmerston North to meet a customer of ours, a Māori organisation who have been doing some massively inspiring work in the...

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...

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...

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)....

Shepherds Park, Beach Haven, Tāmaki Makaurau

“I stood at the border, stood at the edge, and claimed it as central.” Toni Morrison (Morrison & Wendt, 1998) Scrolling slightly...

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...

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...