Sharing inspiration at the OKF in Helsinki

Last week’s Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki left many inspired, intrigued and pondering about knowledge, its production, exchange, and distribution across the globe. It is the year 2012, the first decade of the 21st century has already passed by and

Stay hungry, stay foolish

With this inspiring quote by Stewart Brand, who placed this message on the back of the 1974 edition of the Whole Earth Catalogue (the ‘paperbackform’ of Google, according to Steve Jobs), my 2011 MA thesis project ‘5- The dish’ greets

Re-animating design ‘relatedness’

Change is palpable. We intuit today’s shifting complexities as a state of continuous transition. Design, designers and societies are carried along together, but little eddies are growing just out of the mainstream. Here, design’s orientation towards people, our collective perception