Tag: BBC

  • Design dreams of digital worlds – but is digitech sympathetic?

    Design dreams of digital worlds – but is digitech sympathetic?

    The architectural collective Assemble– winners of the Turner Prize – continue to explore the designed and manufactured world in the second part of BBC Radio 4’s series, The Sympathy of Things inspired by John Ruskin’s views on aesthetics and the central role of sympathy. With Amica Dall and Giles Smith, the BBC state “The series is an argument […]

  • Joining designerly dots

    Joining designerly dots

    This is a post by Stephen Potter, Professor Emeritus at Design and Innovation This Thursday a one-off return of the BBC programme Tomorrow’s World is appearing on BBC4. As a kid, in the 1960s this programme really stimulated my interest in design and technology. Each week a set of potentially life-changing gizmos and gadgets were demonstrated […]

  • Design dreams of the material world – but is it sympathetic?

    Design dreams of the material world – but is it sympathetic?

    Have a listen to BBC Radio 4’s two-part series, The Sympathy of Things in which the architectural collective  ‘Assemble’ – winners of the Turner Prize – explore the designed and manufactured world, arguing that just as mass production has disrupted and changed our relationship to the material world, so digital technologies will also disrupt these relationships […]