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Creating a Culture of Innovation (an introduction)

Just like I did with my first book here’s an intro to my new book which is out now! The initial premise of the book was to highlight the…

Dec 28, 2020

Creating a Culture of Innovation (an introduction)

Dec 28, 2020

Prisons or domes? Notes on the role of the home under COVID-19.

I wrote a book on the history of technology in the home which came out in 2018 and six weeks into my government mandated self-isolation…

Apr 21, 2020

Prisons or domes? Notes on the role of the home under COVID-19.

Apr 21, 2020

COVID-19 or The end of coherent action?

An essay on incoherence in the age of collective trauma.

Mar 29, 2020

COVID-19 or The end of coherent action?

Mar 29, 2020

Can makers help the NHS during COVID-19?

Can we use hackspace, maker spaces and makers across the UK to offer rapid manufacturing to the NHS and the nation?

Mar 24, 2020

Can makers help the NHS during COVID-19?

Mar 24, 2020

How the internet will eat your home

(This post will link all the threads of client work I’ve had since I wrote my book on Smart Homes. You could call this ‘the missing…

Jan 27, 2020

Jan 27, 2020

Far from the madding crowd: modern art in rural Japan.

I just spent 21 days on holiday in rural Japan, my third time there. 31 million people visited Japan in 2018 and most will stick to the…

Nov 22, 2019

Nov 22, 2019

Women Interrupted: the untold stories of women in design and architecture.

In researching my first book on smart homes I ended up uncovering a lot of women’s work. Work that wasn’t very well documented. Work that…

Nov 20, 2019

Women Interrupted: the untold stories of women in design and architecture.

Nov 20, 2019

How to organise diverse events : a production checklist

Yesterday, the 4th edition of Ada’s List annual conference took place at the Financial Times building in London. I volunteered to produce…

Nov 10, 2019

How to organise diverse events : a production checklist

Nov 10, 2019

How green really: how measuring what happens inside a building is the ultimate Climate Change data…

I left Bulb in late April and moved on to work with Overlay a project incubated by ING Labs researching how financial institutions could…

Sep 20, 2019

How green really: how measuring what happens inside a building is the ultimate Climate Change data…

Sep 20, 2019

Modern Love: how to teach design history

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock you’ll have noticed it’s the 100 year anniversary of the Bauhaus this year. I graduated from a 4…

Apr 15, 2019

Apr 15, 2019

Alexandra D-S

Alexandra D-S

Author of 'Smarter Homes' (2018) and 'Creating a Culture of Innovation' (2020). A good woman in a storm otherwise.

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