Valuing Design
“We are preserving every bug we can find in the Amazon. And we might tread on something and it…
Method and Rigour
“I have this somewhat cynical view: I think method is a device used by those who haven’t got the…
Tools and Media
“What, then, is the difference between a tool (or toolkit) and a medium? The difference is [..] that the…
Doing Research
“When you’re doing research, your question is not ‘What does it tell me?’, but ‘How does it enable me…
Post-Rationalising the New
“By definition, we can only explain the truly new after it has been attained and recognised, in a process…
Human Machine Interaction
“It is more interesting to work with a machine when it doesn’t do what you want than when…
Finding and Making
“Finding is making in your own mind but pretending that you didn’t make it.”
Semiotics
“[S]emiotics is the study of the minimum requirements for a sign to exist, and not the study of the…
Trying to Make Do With Less
“Some, attempting to be inclusive, grab everything they can and claim it for their sphere of interest, theory, whatever. But…
Pask’s P and M Individuals
“A p-individual is a psychological individual and an m-individual is a mechanical individual. So an m-individual is a body and…