As a design studio, we are committed to collaborating with clients and commissioners to produce work that will have an impact - be it social, economic, cultural or intellectual. To do this, we have two main areas of practice: Our Consultancy and The Flux Lab 

Design Workshops
May 2010

Over the past few months, we have been developing a series of new methods to facilitate and run design, public engagement, 'design thinking' and futures workshops for a wide range clients and organisations. For instance, a while back we worked with the management at Brigade Group in Bangalore to envision the development of a new Music Experience Centre. And most recently, we conducted a school workshop with A level students to explore the implications of Quantum Computing. 

Quantum Workshop
The 5th Dimensional Camera
March 2010

As work is underway to harness the weird nature of our subatomic world to build a quantum computer, we, as designers, where given the unique opportunity to explore what the wider implications of living in a world with quantum computing might be. Our response was the '5th Dimensional Camera' a fictional device for photographing Hugh Everett’s, and our own, many worlds. The project was a collaboration between EPSRC, Nesta, Royal College of Art, Superflux and scientists from the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (QIP IRC).

Project Indepth
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PopSci Review
Inform and Inspire New Services
December 2009

We worked closely with STBY to develop to a series of personas for Southern Water, a project commissioned by the Design Council. We worked closely with several households to identify key motivating factors, designed and developed distinct personas and visualised them in a series of videos.

Southern Water
Design Council
New Pollinators: The Synthetic Bees
November 2009

Together with the The Power of 8 team, we designed a new kind of pollinating creature called the Beamer Bee, or the Beamer Signum Apis Melifera. This concept aims to encourage debate around the mysterious disappearance of honey bees, alongside the emerging biohacking culture that allows the creation of new organisms with greater ease. Importantly, through design, this project aims to consider the implications of living with such new organisms.

The Beamer Bees
WIRED UK
Acres Green: Outcome of a Collaborative Futurescaping project
October 2009

'The Power of 8' final exhibition went up on 22nd September, was open for 3 weeks during which 6544 visitors came by. 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. To find out more, drop us a line.

Power of 8
London Design Festival
Arts Council England
Discovery and Scoping: Patient Dignity in the NHS, UK
September 2009

We collaborated with STBY on an exciting project around Patient Dignity for the Department of Health, UK, 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 and a national design challenge inviting designers to join forces with manufacturers, service providers and specialist contractors to help eliminate mixed sex accommodation and increase patient privacy and dignity in hospitals.

Design Council
Patient Dignity Competition
Speculating with the Public
July 2009

The Power of 8 project was invited to take part in the London 2012 Open Weekend events, at the Watermans Gallery. We invited the local people of Brentford to imagine their future worlds over a map situated in the gallery. Together with the participants we transformed the table into a landscape of fantasy and possibility: from walking houses to snow stimulators, solar powered airships, public free boxes, trees that could talk to one another and even new kinds of organisms.  More images here.

Open Weekend
London 2012
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Metz+Racine
July 2009

We worked closely with Mototake Makishima to develop a seamless web presence for Metz+Racine, highlighting the simplicity of their amazing work. Entire content management is done in Drupal and an interface for easy uploads keeps M+R happy. 

Metz+Racine
Designer Futurescape
June 2009

Bruce Sterling wrote an article in the Make Magazine titled 'Designer Futurescape', a title and topic that refers to my talk ‘Design Futurescaping’ at LIFT09 in Geneva earlier this year.

It is exciting to find this in the MAKE magazine, which emphasises the point we, at Superflux are trying to make. Not only designing futurescapes, but ‘making’ them tangible, and creating ways of distributing and testing them today.

Designer Futurescape
Anab's LIFT09 Talk
New Gestural Interactions, Nokia Design
May 2009

We had the opportunity to work with team of designers at Nokia Design, London, to design, develop and test prototypes demonstrating new kinds of gestural interactions. We also developed a set of guiding principles for designers across all Nokia platforms to develop gestural interactions in the future.

Nokia Gestures