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Alternate States

Tokyo: minted water
Monday afternoon taking a teleconference call from home – sharing the line with an early riser in Espoo, and a LA based Design Studio colleague …



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23 Jul 2008

In: Today's Office
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Our Augmented World

08 Jul 2008

In: Daikanyama, Design Inspiration, Future Perfect
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In a future perfect world where a % of the urban population is wearing or carrying a device that is capable of augmenting reality what …
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Reflections

08 Jul 2008

In: Omotesando, Today's Office
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For the next two hours this is my office – a sofa in the Lotus, located in a Omotesando back alley. I’ve spent the day …
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Ambient Reality Checks

07 Jul 2008

In: Research Methods
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If you’ve ever tried managing a cross-cultural project where the team hails from Europe, China and India you’ve probably come across decimal place separator issues. …
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Incentivised Recycling

30 Jun 2008

In: Cultural Norms, Sangenjaya
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The mental distance between the act of recycling, and what happens with what is recycled. My neighbourhood paper recycling van in Sangenjaya drops off (recycled) …
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Mediated Experiences

23 Jun 2008

In: Shinjuku, Today's Office
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On a side note – it’s interesting to see how other people label that thing that you do. I’m neither a trained anthropologist nor do …
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A Space, Lingered

21 Jun 2008

In: Design Inspiration, Mishuku
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This corner of Mishuku, fairly close to my home where the taxi driver’s pull up their rigs, take a pee in the nearby pubic lavatory, …
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When People and Places Rub Shoulders

29 May 2008

In: Today's Office
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Another day, another journey this time to Ahmedabad for a study on . Not quite a hand-luggage only trip but nice to work on a …
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All That You Come Back To

28 May 2008

In: Sangenjaya, Today's Office
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One of the late night conversations that seemed to occur with regularity during our Ghana field study was the stuff we do that makes us …
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The Crowd That Lingers

26 May 2008

In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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Take the Keio Exit out of Shibuya Station and hang a sharp left and you’ll soon come across a crowd of spectators watching the monotonously …
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