Long live the thing! Temporal ubiquity in a smart vintage wardrobe by Jonnet Middleton Very slowly over time my things began to overwhelm me. The bulk of these things were garments, the moderately sized collection of wearable artefacts that clothe me and also, more problematically, the irrationally large hoard of

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The consequences of various world plans … by DaviD McConville President, Buckminster Fuller Institute In the 1960s Buckminster Fuller proposed a ‘great logistics game’ and ‘world peace game’ (later shortened to simply, the ‘World Game’) that was intended to be a tool that would facilitate a comprehensive, anticipatory, design-science approach to

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Designing Stories for Humans and Nonhumans: Interview with Anne Galloway Dr Anne Galloway is Senior Lecturer, School of Design, and Deputy Head, School of Architecture, at Victoria University of Wellington. Trained in sociology and anthropology, Anne teaches courses in design and culture, and researches relations amongst people, places, animals and

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Images and writings to document Phylogeny: thinking and making on time, place and relationship, 19–21 February 2010, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The scientific study of phylogeny and the context of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh is the focus of Lab #1 documented through images of the event as well

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Hens not Chickens, Perhaps Robots? by Ignacio Vinuela-Fernandez and Chris Speed There are between 750,000 and 1,000,000 family hens, kept in mainly suburban gardens in the United Kingdom. This growing social trend has been spurred on by TV programmes that promote wholesomeness and self-reliance in an increasingly uncertain world. Hens

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An example of the molecular sequence data on which phylogenies are based in Wortley’s article ‘Phylogeny: the science and underlying data’. The data presents the first section of an aligned phylogenetic dataset for these eight taxa (or closely related species where the exact taxon was unavailable) for the genes rbcL

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