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Why I decided to stop entering Design Awards.

Why I decided to stop entering Design Awards.

Somewhere in the middle of 2018, I decided to stop entering commercial design awards. I’ve decided to write how I came to this decision……
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Fieldnotes — Week 556

Fieldnotes — Week 556

It’s been a really big fortnight! As of last Friday Project Centurion is now on-site and in production. Eek. Project Playway did really…
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Fieldnotes: Week 553

Fieldnotes: Week 553

Great week.
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Fieldnotes: Week 552

Fieldnotes: Week 552

This week we had a really big share on Project Playway and made great progress with Project Centurion too, a little highlight of the week…
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Robin Howie
Mobility Wars

Mobility Wars

Cities everywhere have been scrambling to rethink local mobility. There’s much to learn from the past few years.
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FF Rucksack Prototype No 2

FF Rucksack Prototype No 2

OK, here we go… Prototype No 2 of the Fieldwork Facility rucksack! (we’re making our own perfect rucksack for design fieldwork).
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FF Rucksack Prototype No 1

FF Rucksack Prototype No 1

Here we go… #FFRucksack Prototype No 1! For years I’ve been thinking about making our very own backpack which is perfectly tailored for…
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Fieldnotes: Week 504

Fieldnotes: Week 504

Here’s what’s on the FF radar this week…
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Fieldnotes: Week 503

Fieldnotes: Week 503

Our weeknotes sort of fell off the radar a while back (ahem… a whopping 60 weeks ago). I’ll bypass the excuses and just jump into a snappy…
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Robin Howie
Paper-prototyping places

Paper-prototyping places

Recently we ran a workshop with students from the UX and Architecture courses at Ravensbourne University.
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FF: Review of the year / 2019

FF: Review of the year / 2019

A snapshot of everything that happened at Fieldwork Facility in 2019.
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Fieldwork Facility at the Festival of Place

Fieldwork Facility at the Festival of Place

Earlier in the summer, I was invited to talk at the Festival of Place. The panel was titled “What is a truly ‘smart’ city?” and billed as…
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Studio is an attitude

Studio is an attitude

At Fieldwork Facility our ‘Studio’ is wherever we are working. For us a ‘Studio’ isn’t just where we work, it’s the mindsets of how we…
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National Park City Maker paper*

National Park City Maker paper*

We designed a newspaper to celebrate London becoming the world’s first National Park City
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How we reimagined community consultation and created the Museum of Us

How we reimagined community consultation and created the Museum of Us

At Fieldwork Facility we work in the intersection of communication, innovation and place. We absolutely love unusual design challenges, so…
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Designing interactions with the Moon (part 2)

Designing interactions with the Moon (part 2)

Last year Fieldwork Facility was commissioned to create a series of experiential projects to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon…
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Designing interactions for the moon (part 1)

Designing interactions for the moon (part 1)

Last year Fieldwork Facility was commissioned to create a series of experiential design concepts that would celebrate the 50th anniversary…
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Robin Howie
New work: Plants not Pollution

New work: Plants not Pollution

We’ve been super busy this year at Fieldwork Facility… and we are just starting to see a flurry of projects go live. Here’s the first look…
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Fieldnotes: Week 443

Fieldnotes: Week 443

Hello and Happy New Year. Here is the first edition of Fieldnotes in 2019!
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