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Space & Learning

27 Nov 2005
In: Ginza, Today's Office
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36 hours to go before the next trip – almost a full month on the road, in the skies and if things work out according …
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Context, Risk & Consequences

25 Nov 2005
In: Bangalore
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This photo taken last year from a street market in Bangalore. For me it highlights the importance of context in understanding. Lets imagine you are wandering …
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Counter Intiuitive Experiences

15 Nov 2005
In: Daikanyama, Design Inspiration
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The frame of these Swans goggles forms a perfect seal with the face, doing away with the need for rubber padding. Very comfortable, counter-intuitively so …
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Announcements are the Interface

05 Nov 2005
In: Future Perfect, San Francisco
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With the cockpit off-limits to passengers the only direct communication that most passengers have with the pilot of a plane is his or her voice …
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Today’s Walk

05 Nov 2005
In: San Francisco, Today's Office
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Touchdown, tunes helping re-calibrate.
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Pre-determining Use

30 Oct 2005
In: Cultural Norms, Shimo Kitazawa
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Anticipation of use, contexts of use.
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Knowing Which Way the Wind Blows

30 Oct 2005
In: GRF, Shimo Kitazawa
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False Hope

29 Oct 2005
In: Cultural Norms, Shimo Kitazawa
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The business traveller’s fear of breakfast

03 Oct 2005
In: Today's Office, White Plains
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Feel strangely OK for a 10 hour time difference. Sometime in the next week the permalag will kick in, presumably just before I present the …
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Simple Pleasures II

01 Oct 2005
In: Seoul, Today's Office
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This morning’s office is a second story coffee shop – empty save for 5 clubbers sobering up after a night out in somewhere between Sinchon-dong …
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