Well, the house is proving a persistent but not at all unwelcome distraction from blogging stuff, but that’s okay. Managing to set up even a M*A*S*H*-like *Man Lodge was mitigated by, like..unpacking scores of boxes containing mostly books, old disk drives or bits and bobs from the old Laboratory workbench. But, ala…

The Unhappy Hipster site has the tag line “It’s Lonely In The Modern World” dryly shifting design toward self-mocking irony. Perhaps a kind of denaturing of the sublime intoxication home/interior/architectural design was once able to effect. Seasoning this with Latour, we might wonder if there ever was a modern worl…

So, I just have to say — academic architects? Wow..what a surly bunch. Neil Leach had his hands full fending off the fond-of-their-voices contingent of guests he invited to weigh in on his Interactive Architecture Studio end-of-term presentations. It’s like no one thought for a moment that these are students and it…

This sounds like fun.

Design Strategy

A few assorted bits I found related to Design Fiction whilst following a link somewhere, to somewhere else.

…and apparently available only in the UK presently. John Marshall and I have a manifesto-y essay towards the end of this.