Few days into 2010, we sense hope... Perhaps we are just happy to be alive and kicking six months after we founded Superflux. On work front, while the IMPACT! EPSRC project continues, we have been developing new project ideas and spending time documenting stories and contradictions around India's local services.
We are also pleased to be profiled in the Feb issue of Wired UK.
We are pleased to be featured in an exciting new book titled 'Business Model Generation' by Alex Osterwalder et al. In other news, we have been spreading our wings, spending some time in Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad meeting new collaborators, running workshops and giving talks.
Lastly, and most importantly, we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a promising start to 2010!
We are working on an very exciting project around Quantum Computing in collaboration with scientists at Oxford and Bristol. Sponsors: EPSRC and the RCA.
Anab will be giving a Public Lecture titled 'Design Without Disciplines' at the Liverpool John Moores University on Wednesday, 25th Nov. If you are around, do drop by!
We just finished the first phase of a project for Southern Water in collaboration with STBY. We are also developing Vision Work for a Music Experience Centre in Bangalore. And Anab just returned from a fantastic TEDIndia. For detailed updates visit our blog.
We invite you to explore the final concepts from 'The Power of 8' exhibition, now up on the project site. We designed scenarios for Acres Green, a sustainable permaculture ecosystem, where people balance the requirment to live closer to nature, with their human impulses to simultaneously subvert and control it. We are now taking some of the ideas further, and are open to new conversations and collaborations, so do drop us a line if you are interested.
Earlier this week, we ran a 'pressure project' with the 2nd and 3rd year product design students at the Edinburgh College of Art. Inspired by Carolyn Steel's TED talk, we set the students an 8-hour task to come up with imaginative service proposals for a possible future where Britain is experiencing food shortage. The students worked in groups and came up with great ideas which helped them think not only of their individual products, but of the wider ecosystem within which their designs will live.
We are pleased to announce the opening of our exhibition for the project 'The Power of 8' at the Watermans Gallery from 22nd September to the 11th October, as part of the London Design Festival 2009. In the exhibition we present Acres Green: A proposal for an alternate augmented ecosystem, through a series of prototypes, scenarios, films and images. If you are in London, do come by!
Anab will be giving a talk titled 'Superpowers I grew up with' at Interesting 2009 at Conway Hall in London. She will also be talking at the ThisHappened in Edinburgh on 12th October about her recent collaborative project 'The Power of 8'. If you happen to be in any of these places, do come say hi!
We collaborated with STBY on an exciting project around Patient Dignity for the Department of Health, UK. The project was commissioned by the Design Council. Based on our research and design work, the Design Council and Department of Health are now set to launch a student design competition which will address issues around patient dignity and privacy in hospitals.
The Power of 8 project was invited to take part in the London 2012 Open Weekend events, at the Watermans Gallery. This exciting public engagement project transformed the flat map of Brentford into a fantastical landscape created by the local people living there. Images here.
Alongside our serivce and interaction design client work, The Superflux Manifesto explains our inherent desire to experiment. One such experiment is our new collaborative project 'The Power of 8', which invites eight people from different walks of life to imagine their aspirations for a desirable future.
This project is funded by the Arts Council England, and Watermans Gallery, London. The final exhibition will open on 22nd September and form part of the London Design Festival.
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