I work as a designer, researcher and educator although this website mostly focusses on my artwork, which I am doing less of these days, and my writtern publications.

My background is a mixture of consulting in design innovation, especially in digital/services, and teaching and research. Since 2005 I have developed and taught an MBA elective on Designing Better Futures at Said Business School, University of Oxford, where I am associate fellow. This remains one of few such courses in any management school. I also now offer the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneuship's MBA elective in Design for Innovation and Change. During 2013, I am working part-time as principal research fellow at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, researching new post-graduate courses.In 2012 I published online a toolkit I use in my teaching, the Social Design Methods Menu.

In my practice and research I am involved in exploring ways to bring design approaches to organisational problems and community challenges. I have about 15+ years' experience of leading design teams working for the public sector and media as well as for organisations such as Vodafone, Deutsche Bank and Metropolitan Housing. Through my consultancy Fieldstudio Ltd, I design and facilitate large (up to 100 people) workshops for entrepreneurs and innovators to try out design thinking and service design. I'm particularly interested in the role of design approaches in social innovation and entrepreneurship, and I co-curate the Social Design Talks which started in 2012.

I'm also a fellow at the Young Foundation, London, where among other things I lead YF's contribitions to the European Commission Framework 7 research project on mapping controversies, EMAPS. In addition I am an associate at The Policy Lab (Boston) and have worked for Taylor Haig and Engine in London. I have also worked as a journalist including at BBC World Service.

Conference keynotes include the International Association of Societies of Design Research (2011), Service Design Network (2010), Design Management Institute (2010), and Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (2008). I publish in peer-reviewed journals on design thinking and service design, as well as trying to find ways to make academic work more digestible to wider publics. I am also involved in helping develop curricula in design/innovation and as an external for academic reviews and validations such as at Parsons The New School for Design and the Royal College of Art. I am working with two design schools developing MBA or MBA-like offerings.

My artwork has been shown internationally including at TEDGlobal 2011 and in the interdisciplinary exhibition Making Things Public (2005) curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. I originally studied engineering design and appropriate technology, then a masters in digital media, and I am completing doctoral work at the University of Lancaster.