A talk comprised of various threads of thought from various Smithery projects across the last eighteen months, given at the open house at Loft Digital as part of London Technology Week. Starts with some conceptual thinking, ends with some examples and approaches for you to try at home...
4. Strategic Design
bridges disciplines and departments,
roles and responsibilities.
It seeks to change the factors around
a thing, not just the thing itself.
It makes things happen.
65. “In Earth's future,
a global crop
blight and second
Dust Bowl are
slowly rendering
the planet
uninhabitable.”
Source: Google Description
66. “Professor Brand, a
brilliant NASA
physicist, is working on
plans to save mankind
by transporting Earth's
population to a new
home via a
wormhole.”
Source: Google Description
67. “But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper and a
team of researchers through the wormhole and across the
galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's
new home.”
Source: Google Description
118. Mechanics
“the behavior of physical
bodies when subjected to
forces or displacements, and
the subsequent effects of the
bodies on their environment”
Wikipedia
140. “We are currently witnessing a
re-architecture of the web, away
from pages and destinations,
towards completely personalised
experiences built on an aggregation
of many individual pieces of
content…”
Paul Adams, Intercom
@padday