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Diwali Comes Early Down Under
Although the Diwali Festival of Lights is to be officially celebrated by Hindus and Indo-philes around the world next week – here in Wellington things kicked off early. As part of the Asia New Zealand...
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Life’s Inevitable Transition II
I’ve been continuing my work on the riveting Death and Diversity project between the Office of Ethnic Affairs and the Wellington Museums Trust. Following up on earlier investigation with various...
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OpenIDEO: Better Together
“That OpenIDEO thing is great isn’t it?” My mother, approaching 80, discovered Google Buzz a few months back and has been following me on Twitter from there. Via one of my tweets, she had a look...
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Excreta, Et Cetera II
Earlier this year I wrote about research exploring sanitation in low-income urban India that I had been involved in as an external consultant. Playfully dubbed The Potty Project, the study by...
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DREAM:IN – Hunt to Harvest
This week I find myself in Bangalore lending a hand in the flurry of activity leading up to the DREAM:IN Journey. Challenging the notion that future thinking should be informed by people’s needs – the...
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DREAM:IN – Hunt to Harvest II
Earlier this month I wrote about getting involved in the DREAM:IN initiative which is collecting India’s aspirations as a canvas for creative thinking. It intends to form a dynamic database of dreams...
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Three-Wheeled Travel Tales
A fellow rickshaw-enthusiast requested I dig up this piece I penned sometime back about Tuk Tuks in Sri Lanka. Given it was my first piece of paid writing – for a Hong Kong lifestyle mag back in 2004...
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Global Challenge: Local Flavour
I recently hopped across the ditch to Queensland, Australia’s Sunshine State, for the Ideas Featival in Brisbane. We’ve been running a Local Food Challenge on OpenIDEO in conjunction with the festival...
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Prototype-hype
Last month I travelled to Californian summer, welcoming a brief respite from the depths of a harsh winter, to join my colleagues at IDEO. This was a momentous meeting – after many months of working...
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Sustainable Solutions from Mumbai Streets
I’ve been feeling guilty of late, for neglecting posts to Random Specific – so it was heartening to be approached by CNN this month, who’ve created a gallery of images from my recent Quick-pic...
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Dabbawallas: Innovation Contained and Coded
Works That Work is a new international design magazine that looks beyond mere portfolios – a magazine dedicated to inspiration and observation, to conditions and contexts, a kind of National...
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Twitter, Hip-Hop & Smoke-Freestyle
A while back I was asked to contribute ideas on spreading the smokefree message to New Zealand youth via the awesome Smoking: Not Our Future platform. Noting that they already had an active social...
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Diwali Comes Early Down Under
Although the Diwali Festival of Lights is to be officially celebrated by Hindus and Indo-philes around the world next week – here in Wellington things kicked off early. As part of the Asia New Zealand...
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