Solarpunk. A blueprint for a sustainable world worth living in

Here’s the question. What does life in a sustainable future look like? Ours are critical times. The material resources and...

What is Solarpunk? (A definition with minimal punctuation)

I recently became interested in Solarpunk. As an informal, bottom-up movement, different groups interpret Solarpunk in different ways and there...

Tech posers of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus greatest achievement was to make artists interested in the creative use of technology, to design things that are...

Invented, allowed, adopted. A three-stage drama for new ideas to becoming things in the world

What did a new idea have to go through before becoming a real thing and have a role in people...

Arts and Crafts for digital products now!

19th century artist William Morris’s idea of art is at the core of what I believe is the greatest purpose...

Technology inspires design in the work of Bruno Munari

Italian artist, designer and writer Bruno Munari is one of my heroes. I can imagine him in his studio, which...

Instagram Reel - Not not-invented-here at Facebook - 2020/04

Here in Germany, we’re having early access to a new Instagram feature. Together with Brazil, France and India, the TikTok...

Methodolatry - 2020/03

Do you feel that rigidly sticking to design processes and templates are preventing you to get the job done? There’s...

Some words from the lockdown, Futures Wheel as an opportunities map tool - Weeknote 2020/02

It’s April 2020, and for the lucky of us that can keep doing their job in the middle of a...

Food inspired innovation - Weeknote 2020/01

This issue comes after a long time and from a weird one. Globally and especially in my country Italy, since...

Amazon's underwhelming futurism (and findings) - Weeknote 2019/14

Amazon is not the kind of company that makes a big fanfare (read Apple) when releasing something new*, so they...

The underground epoch of local fabrication, bad AI, misjudged AI and peel cups - Weeknote 2019/13

3-D Printers Could Help Spread Weapons of Mass Destruction. Until I read this article last week, I didn’t think about...

A Mountaineering metaphor for designing and inventing, AI certifications, a sleek remote and an AI game - Weeknote 2019/12

I was familiar with Don Norman and Roberto Verganti shared argument on design & innovation. In a nutshell: Human Centred...

Ars Electronica. Three headlines and four highlights - Weeknote 2019/11

Notes from my visit to Ars Electronica. Collected strolling in that multi-cultural cyberpunk mini-sprawl that is the Postcity, the huge...

Stubborn AI, humble AI - Weeknote 2019/10

Catching up with some readings on AI and design, I’ve re-read Fabien Girardin’s great When Automation Bites Back. The post...

An historical perspective - Weeknote 2019/9

Few months back I’ve discovered and started listening the excellent podcast The Secret History of the Future. Each episode of...

Back to the continent, CO2 calculators, doodles and an AI oracle - Weeknote 2019/8

Ok, this is a continuation as much as is a new beginning. First things first. Since last weeknote many thing...

Beyond voice assistants skills, beds, TV and robot arms - Weeknote 2019/7

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. With the Creative Technology team...

American Pioneers' influence on design and findings - Weeknote 2019/6

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. The Culture Map by Erin...

Jaron Lanier about stories in tech, a post about AR, UX engineers... - Weeknote 2019/5

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. Since a while I started...

A synth, zero-waste grocery and cool stuff cheap - Weeknote 2019/4

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. Findings 1. Teenage Engineering Modular...

Another Scout on the block & innovation, Shenzhen-style - Weeknote 2019/3

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. This week’s update is over...

More Scout and the Amen Break as design metaphor - Weeknote 2019/2

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. Some more news about our...

Already broken new year resolutions and an IoT blabbermouth - Weeknote 2019/1

3 (approx) interesting things, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by Uniform Medium publication. The new year has come...

Thingscon: Ethics in tech & AI personas report — 2018/15

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Installations' storyboards: more gifs than films — 2018/14

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Modularity vs Ad-Hoc in prototyping — 2018/13

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Fun in the home — 2018/12

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

AI Personas reloaded — 2018/11

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Screen Time — 2018/10

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Screen Time — 2018/9

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

De-phubbing: Signals - 2018/8

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Also on Powered by...

Signals - 2018/7

We’ve decided to make more official the habit of writing weeknotes about the work I and Mike do at Uniform,...

Signals - 2018/6

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Notes Our small Creative...

Signals - 2018/5

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Notes Again on the...

Signals - 2018/4

End of week notes and 3 (approx) interesting things, new or old, found (approx) this week. Notes We’ve just finished...

Signals - 2018/3

I’m figuring out what this blog is and should be. From its original intention it was meant to be “a...

Signals - 2018/2

3 (approx) interesting projects, new or old, found (approx) this week. 1. (author)rise (2018) Start writing on a whiteboard. A...

Signals - 2018/1

3 (approx) interesting projects, new or old, found (approx) this week. 1. Itty bitty A website in a url. No...

A 2018 review of Mark Wieser's 1993 technological metaphors review

At Uniform we have recently started working on some ideas about the Connected Home. I took the opportunity to going...

Enzo Mari designer though Michele Mari writer.

During a trip in Florence we passed by the great independent bookshop Todo Modo, and as I was paying for...

Google Pixel Buds and augmented reality in the age of fake news

A while ago, machine learning artist Mario Klingemann, soon after Google Pixel Buds were announced, tweeted about time translation technology...

Some notes on Kevin Slavin's Design & Participation

Design as participation by Kevin Slavin is one of those rare readings whose ideas are so powerful that you know...

Atto Terzo: a Dream Machine inspired music web app (and something else)

1 I’ve just finished a small project for friends at Bloody Sound Fucktory label. It’s 40 minutes, 10Hz, sound-reactive flashing...

Amazon’s Everything Store and a bit of Archigram

Simon Sadler’s Archigram book defined the british group’s vision a “sublime world of pure servicing”. Amazon’s the company that is...

Engagement squatting as social network advertising

Quite untimely on this, but Saturday February 11th has concluded the 68th edition of the Sanremo Festival. An old and...

Politics and the algorithm

In the month Oxford Dictionaries declared post-truth as the word of the year, my news feeds were storming with readings...

Today we ad-blocks

Alison and Peter Smithsons’ “Today We Collect Ads” became famous as the first article that first used the term Pop...

Self-automatizing out of work...

I’ve recently finished reading Player Piano, the first novel Kurt Vonnegut wrote in 1952 - a story of a world...

The Gadgets, Il Gadget

I’ve been lately reading about the Whole Earth Catalogue and British avant-garde group Archigram. One term that came up a...

A first post

Hi, test. Many times I felt I could have used a place where to put scattered thoughts or notes about...