I’ve taken on a number of commissions over the past few months but unfortunately they haven’t made it to the blog given the big move and the impending arrival! 

David Barrie (who was involved with The People’s Supermarket) asked me to help with a proposal for the Portobello Giving Project, which is a social venture in which donors who live in an urban area donate money to and share skills with local enterprise. Read more about Community Capitalism. 

The book of illustrations was then filmed and a video created by Linus Kraemer.

In celebration of Daniel Kahneman’s most recent book Thinking, Fast and Slow he gave a lecture at the RIGB last November. Unfortunately it’s only now I’ve been able to write this post. The book is now firmly on my to-read list and I’d encourage everyone to have a look. My sketchnote is below and you can see Eva-Lotta’s sketch on Flickr. 

In November 2011, I attended a talk at the RIGB titled The Serendipity Engine with Aleks Krotoski and Kat Jungnickel. 

They describe the engine as the following (taken from the website): The Serendipity Engine is a physical manifestation of theoretical and technological interventions that can be used to enhance serendipity on the World Wide Web. It is a working machine that uses bike parts, flower pots, cake, pulleys, lightbulbs and other concrete objects to articulate the processes that could be translated into digital “solutions” that will re-engineer the potential dystopian social trajectories of current (social) software trends*. It is being theorised, devised, designed, developed and welded together by Dr Aleks Krotoski and Dr Katrina Jungnickel.

Brad and I weren’t too sure about this talk, mainly, if you are engineering serendipity, is it really serendipitous anymore? As a metaphor, I didn’t find the engine appropriate. Still, it was an interesting talk and neither of us went looking for answers. I’ve included my sketchnote below.