The app is currently stuck in testing on the app stores ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , my apologies. But… Android users: You can currently download it as a tester! Tell me the email address you use for the Google Play store and I can send you a download link! Apple users: Tell me your email and I’ll send […]
Doom Scroll is an app that displays the time you spend using different apps on your phone. It converts the time you spend into an estimate of carbon emissions using data from the following sources: A Guide To Your Climate Impact: Ericsson (2020) Malmodin et al, 2023: ICT Sector Electricity Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions […]
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” Decades of writings, dialogues, and attempts to practice green-eco-good-better design, and yet here we are: not a snowflake’s chance in hell of keeping below 1.5º to say the least. I’ve decided to lower my ambition: instead of trying to do good design, how about at least […]
Video TriptychThe Design Museum London(2016, Commission) I was commissioned to make a film on the subject of design and sustainibility for installion in the permanent collection gallery of the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London. I created nine episodes, a twenty minute long film across a triptych of projections. This involved shooting interviews with […]
In the 1930s, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, in which he predicted that the economic problem of subsistence for his grandchildren’s generation, that is us, would be solved. We wouldn’t have to work because the world would be seven times richer. We are indeed seven times richer, yet we […]
In collaboration with Sioban Imms Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices 2017 In a few hundreds or thousands or millions of years, what trace will remain of our post-industrial industries, and its not-so-post industrial pollution? Digital culture is often discussed in immaterial terms, but it depends on material substrates: mineral ores, mined from seams, processed and […]
Living History is a 360º virtual reality ‘documentary’ film from the future, about the present. Film from the earliest days of cinema is magical: grainy moving images of people working in fields, or men in ornate hats walking along streets crowded with animals. These scenes were mundane everyday sights at the time, yet just over […]
I tried to become a goat to escape the angst inherent in being a human. The project became an exploration of how close modern technology can take us to fulfilling an ancient human dream: to take on characteristics from other animals. But instead of the ferocity of a bear, or the perspective of a bird, […]
I wrote a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that lays out a daily calendar on to rolls of wallpaper, showing every day of the week (and highlighting the weekends), for whatever time period you specify. A calendar for a wall about two meters high can be made to comfortably extend 2oo years in to the past […]
In the 21st Century BC, Nebo was the Babylonian God of wisdom and writing. He determined the lives of every human being by writing their story on to sacred clay tablets, and thus was responsible for the ultimate fate of mankind. Now in the 21st Century AD, Nebo has been resurrected in a new guise, […]