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We must look beyond the hype of tech unicorns for global recovery, and uncover local economic systems that can rebuild and sustain communities. We're…
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Like a kind of contrast dye, the Coronavirus illuminates and intensifies the shameful and systemic racism of our institutions. Dismantling them will not…
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What if the inspiration for fairer creative economies are found beyond speculative technologies?
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A recap of our first year of work as the New Design Congress
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A collaboration from The New Design Congress & Simply Secure that seeks to understand the risks of ethical data collection for underrepresented…
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Today we are gripped in a period of tremendous uncertainty. Between media saturation, bad actors and a looming global health threat, the idea that one…
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We misunderstand and downplay the emotional and political significance of open worlds and virtual spaces at our peril.
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The NEW DESIGN CONGRESS x RECLAIMFUTURES present a livestream series about subcultures building livelihoods in spite of platform exploitation. Streaming…
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A stark report on the effects of technology beyond the ideal user, and the hidden essential roles of smartphones in rapidly changing societies.
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In collaboration with Furtherfield, we've just published The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025, an essay and forthcoming exhibition about loneliness…
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How the economics of consumer tech and the practice of human centered design pressed digital life into a joyless substitute for social interaction.
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A major new collaboration between The New Design Congress x Furtherfield, London
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