Jon Ardern (JA), Co-Founder and Director of Superflux speaks with Kristin Alford (KA), Director of the Museum of Discovery, Adelaide (MOD) about their film ‘Trigger Warning’. WHY WAGING PEACE? JA: Why did MOD decide to curate an exhibition called ‘Waging Peace’? KA: Our exhibitions are designed for 15–25 year olds, so we…

Whilst researching Better Care Systems for a project we are currently working on with Doteveryone, I came across the work of economist and feminist Nancy Folbre. Nancy has worked extensively in the space of “caring labour” and her work articulates this immeasurable labour, often done by women, and how difficult…

The release of Google’s AI principles last week are promising. It is hard to imagine how these principles will be baked into the DNA of the company and how their implementation will play out in terms of company decision making and strategy, as they balance these against profit margins. …

Over at Superflux, our work investigating potential and plausible futures, involves extensively scanning for trends and signals from which we trace and extrapolate into the future. Both qualitative and quantitative data play an important role. In doing such work, we have observed how data is often used as evidence, and…

A while back I roamed the streets of India with tiny Mars probes, speaking to strangers about space missions, aliens, climate change and nationalism. It was the start of a thrilling adventure exploring the history and future of India’s space program within the context of global geopolitics, militarization and cultural…

My friend Deb Chachra wrote a great piece ‘Why I am not a Maker’ in the Atlantic last year, about the problems with taking on the identity of a “maker”, especially in tech culture, as it assumes intrinsic superiority to other forms of repair, fixing and especially, care-giving. Around the…

I was invited to deliver the keynote at NEXT Conference held on September 24th-25th 2015 in Hamburg, Germany. A busy mix of agency, marketing and business executives, it was an audience outside of our usual network. And so, it became an opportunity for Jon and me to present our thinking…