This interview with Nguyet Vuong, co-founder and lead designer at Civil was conducted by Jim Kosem back in January 2020. Much has happened since then, including Civil — the much lauded attempt to decentralise and improve the process of news making — has coming to a close. Much thanks and…

Designer, author and engineer Joshua Noble will be joining Sensorium Festival to lead a workshop on Computer Vision for Mixed Reality. We sat down with Joshua to talk about his fascination for Computer Vision, its wider implications for society and the complicity he feels as a designer working with technological systems. — What makes Computer Vision such an interesting technique to you as a designer?

The photo above shows the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) in Bratislava where I design and develop web technologies in the research and development lab. The prominent ‘Bridge’ structure on the left is currently undergoing reconstruction, which means that the only space available for exhibitions is the three top floors on…

Just over a week ago I travelled to London to participate in Mozilla Festival, a technology conference organised by the open-source organisation that brings you Firefox. Phrasing MozFest like this misses the point though, and I usually describe it as a mixture of an unconference and Burning Man. Spread across…

For a year and a half now I’m working with the Slovak National Gallery to find out how digital technology can help connect people to art in new and profound ways. We recently embarked on a learning journey by joining Mozilla’s Open Leadership programme, to help us get better at…