ISAF/American critical stencil art (left) depicting the in the Tainani neighbourhood of, Kabul. Stencils are widely used for advertising services here, first examples I’ve …



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The research crew takes to motorcycles the only way to beat the Kabul traffic – otherwise slowed by the concrete barriers, roadblocks, poor state of …
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The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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For every colour an association: orange denotes cooked eggs – with a small bag of salt off to one side.
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The stuff you do to retain the ideal state of an object – that sweet spot of use. And the motivations for keeping an object in …
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The extent to which you have the moral and legal obligation to protect your study participant’s privacy? The ways in which this conflicts with how the data will be used within your organisation and if the subject matter allows, how it might be used in the public domain?
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And more importantly – the liberal use of photoshop to create not one, but montages to the great self.
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If you’re a male visitor to Afghanistan then chances are you’ve made a trip to the Soviet tank graveyard on the outskirts of Kabul. It’s …
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The Institute for Money, Tecnhology and Financial Inclusion has generated a list of 11 Design Principles for Financial Services for the Poor, drawn from a …
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