A lovely video interview with Daniel. Featuring footage from our Lumiphone workshop at Rough Trade East last month.

Can technology save us? An interview with Daniel for Materials World looking at what we are doing to help change the mindset towards technology.

Check out the full article here

Lovely interview with us posted today by Social Innovation Europe. Their online hub aims to be an indispensible resource providing the latest information on European social innovation—a clearinghouse featuring interviews with prominent innovators, case studies of successful ventures, the latest research, and in-depth analysis from the leading thinkers in the field.

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Lovely feature by Dezeen on our Lumiphone workshop at Hacked Milan last week as part of their designed in Hackney feature. Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. They’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

For more information please see the full article and visit the Designed in Hackney page.

Two weeks ago we headed over to Milan for design week to be part of a great event Hacked Milan, curated by Beatrice Galilee. Set in la Rinascente right next to the Duomo cathedral, we took over the whole of the hacked space on Wednesday 18th April and held 4 workshops alternating between Lumiphone and Thirsty Plant, with Light painting demos in between. It was a great success and every workshop was full, with many crowds gathering to watch and a great group Lumiphone performance to end the day.

We have hundreds of photos from the day so take a look at our flickr set.

 

On Sunday 1st April we were invited to run our Lumiphone workshop for 100 people as part of the Weiden and Kennedy founders day at an event curated by Beatrice Galilee, it was their 30th anniversary so the day had that extra ordinary twist..

The theme of the day was Centre 2042 – we had all been taken 30 years into the future. Matt Jones from BERG kicked off the day by blasting us into the future, then everyone was treated to 3 different workshops experiences ours being one of them. The other on show were  We Colonised the Moon allowed everyone to smell the moon before they tasted the future with food artist Caroline Hobkinson and explored new territories with the Unknown Fields Division. Although unfortunately we didn’t get to experience any of the other workshops. For the final stop of the day, Sam Bompas from Bompas & Parr came in with the Experimental Cocktail Company and blew everyones brains out by drinking futuristic cocktails, which we happily got to enjoy.

See out Flickr set from the day:

Our friends at Wayward Plants designed and built the Living Technology Garden in the new Google Campus London, a unique co-working space in the heart of East London’s Tech City which supports tech start-ups.

A handmade moss wall wraps the courtyard, utilising an innovative rainwater collection system. The gaps in the walls are tagged with Moss Graffiti, a guerrilla gardening tactic. Woodland plantings of ferns and hellebores fill the concrete planters in this shady space. They asked us to contribute by placing our Thirsty Plant detectors around the garden, so of course we obliged, to create a Living Technology Garden that tells you when its Thirsty.

The Living Technology Garden will facilitate ongoing collaborations with start-ups that merge plants and technology.

Our Flickr Set:

We have now released the FREE tickets you need to join us for our workshops as part Hacked Lab, Milan. We are very excited to be joining an exciting line up of events and artists throughout the week, and look forward to seeing you there.

18 April: Make a Plant Thirst Detector or Create your own musical instrument at la Rinascente Milan
10am to 7:30pm.

Technology Will Save Us is heading to Milan for design week as part Hacked Lab, an experimental programme of live activities, events, installations, performances and workshops curated by Beatrice Galilee. The project includes temporary site-specific works by artists, architects and designers; a vast hack of la Rinascente’s colonnaded facade by Carmody Groarke, a flexible, movable stage by EXYZT and – very briefly – a scale-model of the Large Hadron Collider. The Hacked Lab programme is intended to provide a platform for young designers whose work exists outside of conventional exhibition-object parameters and crosses various disciplines.

For the whole day on Wednesday 18th April TWSU will be taking over the hacked space and holding a full day of workshops. We will be alternating between our Lumiphone and Thirsty Plant workshops and the best part is its all FREE!

So take your pick or come to both just make sure you sign up early so as not to miss out!

Our friends at Open Ideo have just launched a great new virtual platform for startups – Check it out below:

StartUpPlan – The Startup Planner Platform

A web platform to help startups plan their build, marketing needs and attract talent/freelancers to help with various aspects.

StartUpPlan – A Startup Project Planning Platform

Please visit the website for more details.

Exciting news! As of today, our friends at Sugru have launched  Primary Colours. Over the last year or so they have had hundreds of emails asking for different colours, and the ability to mix a wider range of colours. So… they’ve been beavering away for ages to make it work. And now were happy to say they’ve cracked it!!