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C.V. John Thackara, updated June 2021

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A. SUMMARY CHRONOLOGY �� 1 B. EMPLOYMENT �� 2 B.1 2019— ongoing �� 2 B.2 2000-2016 �� 4 B.3 1993-1999 ��10 B.4 1985-1992 ��11 B.5 1980-1985 ��12

C. PUBLICATIONS ��13 C.1 Books by John Thackara ��13 C.2 John Thackara Online Publications ��15 C.3 Multiple-Author Books: Chapters by John Thackara ��16

D. BIENNIALS AND CONFERENCE CURATOR ��20 D.1 Curator, Urban-Rural ��20 D.2 Commisioner, City Eco Lab ��21 D.3 Programme Director, Designs of the Time (dott) ��21 D.4 Curator and Chair, Doors of Perception ��22

E. CONFERENCE CHAIR, PROFESSIONAL JURIES ��23 F. KEYNOTE LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS ��24 G. ADVISORY BOARDS ��31 H. AWARDS ��32 I. CONTACT JOHN THACKARA ��32

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A. SUMMARY CHRONOLOGY

2019- Visiting Professor Tongji University D&I, Shanghai Visiting Professor, School of Visual Arts, New York Curator, Social Food Forum Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, London, 2014

2000-2018 Director, Doors of Perception, Amsterdam, then Ganges, France Steering Committee, Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, Italy Programme Director, Designs Of The Time (Dott 07) UK Commissioner, Design Biennial, Saint-Etienne, France Fellow, The Young Foundation, London Fellow, Musashino Art University, Tokyo Honorary Doctorate, Plymouth University

1993-1999 Director, Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam

1988-1992 Director of Research, Royal College of Art, London

1985–1992 Managing Director, Design Analysis International Limited, London and Tokyo Modern Culture Editor, Harpers & Queen Design Correspondent, The Guardian Design Correspondent, The Spectator Correspondent, The Late Show (BBC)

1980-1985 Editor, Design magazine, London

1979-1980 New South Wales University Press, Sydney (Senior Editor)

1976-1979 Granada Publishing, London (Commissioning Editor, Architecture)

1975 Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff (Diploma Journalism)

1970-1974 University of Kent at Canterbury (BA Philosophy)

1960-1969 Educated in Newcastle and at Marlborough College

1951 Born Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

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B. EMPLOYMENT

Index

2019— ongoing —— Visiting Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai 2000-2016 ———— Director, Doors of Perception, Ganges, France 1993-1999 ———— Director, Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam 1988-1992 ———— Director of Research, Royal College of Art, London 1985-1992 ———— Design Analysis International Limited, London 1980-1985 ———— Editor, Design magazine, London 1979-1980 ———— New South Wales University Press, Sydney (Senior Editor) 1976-1979 ———— Granada Publishing, London (Commissioning Editor, Architecture)

B.1 2019— ONGOING

VISITING PROFESSOR, TONGJI UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI — VISITING PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK 2015 — CURATOR, SOCIAL FOOD FORUM 2019 — SENIOR FELLOW, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (LONDON) 2014 —

B.1.0 Adjunct Professor, Tongji University than pre-cooked solutions. Urban and Rural are 2019- one place, not two. Analogue and digital are also one place, not two. Making things in a soil age, and leaving the land healthier, are also a single process. Research agenda John Thackara’s research agenda spans three thackara.com/notopic/urban-rural-10-takeaways/ subject areas: Care, Value, Place; Urban-Rural slideshare.net/johnthackara/urbanrural- Reconnection; and Knowledge Ecologies, His research statement for the university is here: exhibition-shanghai-2019-john-thackara thackara.com/research-statement-tongji-uni/ Rural Ecological Design Within the context of our transition to an Ecological Urban-Rural Civilization, John Thackara is contributing to the In November 2019, Thackara curated an exhibition development of a training programme, for mid- called Urban-Rural. It was a centrepiece of the career professionals, on Rural Ecological Design. Zhangyan Harvests Country Living Festival curated Features of the course are expected to include by Professor Lou Yongqi at Tongji University. Belt & Road Learning Journeys; an Urban-Rural Framed by the concept of an Ecological Civilization, Observatory; and Urban-Rural Reconnection and our transition from the oil age to a soil age, the summer school. Principals in the project are Tongji event focus was the emergence of a new urban- University (Design Harvests programme); Beijing rural economy. Highlights included: ten ways to Cihai Ecological and Environmental Protection restore soil; farmers live streaming to the city; Foundation; Yongchun County Ecological Shanghai’s BIOfarm; a repair cafe; bioregional fiber Civilization Research Institute; Sources for Action economies; rural village hosts, Chinese-Italian (Beijing); Science and Technology Development fermentation. Among my ten takeaways from the Center. project: the soil age is more about relationships,

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B.1.1. Doors of Perception Xskool B.1.4. Back To The Land 2.0 workshops, 2011 — ongoing 2015 — ongoing A programme of place-based workshops in which This summer school with Konstfack, in Sweden diverse experts, together with project leaders from (2015- ongoing), combines online work with a the bioregion, explore new opportunities and take week on site in August at Hjulsjö community. We a first step – such as a prototype or pilot – towards craft and test small actions to do with soil fertility, making a new enterprise happen. ecological and economic value, tactile & haptic food experience, biodiversity & food webs. thackara.com/xskool konstfack.se/Design-for-Sustainable-CoCreation

B.1.2. Social Food Forum, 2019 - B.1.5. 2017 Ecological Restoration, A project of Matera2019, the Social Food Forum was curated by John Thackara and Casa Netural. Schumacher College Its purpose was (and is) to support diverse rural short course social innovation projects, already under way, In the new ‘leave things better’ economy that that connect the cultural meanings of food and is now emerging, ecological restoration will be agriculture, to stories of person, and place. The an important new opportunity for planning and event brought together food system producers, or design. But what does this mean in practice? curators, involved in: Farm-2-Table Food Hubs; This course was for those seeking to understand Peer-to-Peer Restaurants; Relational Coffee; Real the different ways that design can contribute to Bread; and Farmer Live Streaming. An online ecological restoration. Social Food Atlas was created. It included municipal gardens and urban farms; community meals; social www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short- harvest festivals; cooperative grain growing; farm courses/ecological-restoration-and-design hacks; regional gatherings. Participants at the first Forum included: VaZapp, Rete Semi Rurali, Il Querceto, Alce Nero, Wonder Grottole, Avanzi B.1.6. 2017 Pontio Innovation Centre, Popolo, Funky Tomato, Liminaria, Panecotto Ethical Bistrot, Casa Netural and Agrinetural from North West Wales Italy; Simra from Scotland; Surcos Urbanos from workshop Spain; Sustainable Food Lab from Sweden; Holis Casting a fresh eye on the social, technological and from Hungary; Urbania Hoeve Social Design Lab ecological assets of the region in order to provoke a from the Netherlands discussion: In what ways might Pontio Innovation act as a pollinator or seed disperser among the complex network of interactions in North West B.1.3. School for Village Hosts 2020- Wales? How would these new connections position the region as an living laboratory for territorial As a legacy initiative of the Social Food Form, development? A follow-up to a School for Village Hosts is being developed jointly with Casa Netural. Many small villages www.doorsofperception.com/from-druids-to- all around Europe (those with fewer than 5,000 biorefineries-innovation-in-a-small-nation/ inhabitants) are suffering from depopulation. The school will equip mid-career professionals with the capabilities needed to curate social and rural enterprises that create new livelihoods, and have a positive social impact: Live streaming between farmers with their customers in the city; biocanteens that turn schools into food hubs; biodiversity study tours; fair trade tourism; fiber networks; living villages; and many more.

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B.2 2000-2016

DIRECTOR, DOORS OF PERCEPTION DIRECTOR, DOORS OF PERCEPTION B.V. AMSTERDAM, THEN GANGES, FRANCE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, DESIGNS OF THE TIME (DOTT 07) UK COMMISSIONER, DESIGN BIENNIAL, SAINT-ETIENNE, FRANCE

Highlights

2016 Back To the Land 2.0, Copenhagen 2015 Ask Me Anything, Copenhagen workshop workshop Together with Chora Connection, a two day We were invited by the Danish Design Centre to workshop in 2016 for 12 project leaders involved run an “Ask Me Anything” lunch at Copenhagen’s with real-world examples of how local living creative innovation lab, Space 10, in the steps of economies work. The xskool started a new Tomorrow’s Meatball. A free-ranging discussion conversation about the fact that city and rural are revolved around design thinking, business models, dis-connected – and what to do about it. emergent technologies, disruption, complex challenges and sustainability.

2016 Back To The Land 2.0, Stir To Action, England 2015 The futures of seating, Oslo short course workshop This short course was about new ways for city The futures of work are being shaped by people to re-connect with the land—and how to dynamically changing factors: nomadism and make them happen: Ways that are part-time, but precarity; a mix of formal + informal work; long-term; ways that involve an exchange of value, technical disruptions; hackers and hubs; and new not just paying money; ways to share knowledge, economic models. Together with Transplant, we land, and equipment in new ways; ways based organised a two-day design strategy workshop for on historical links between town and country— SBS. but reinvented in an age of networks and social innovation. 2015 Re-thinking urban mobility, Vienna. www.stirtoaction.com/workshops/redesigning- workshop back-to-the-land-john-thackara To develop a new story about Vienna, mobility, and infrastructure. This workshop featured the green 2015 Bioregions by design, Schumacher city research group Biotope City; Komobile, who design decision-support software for cargo bike College systems; and Cargo Bike Collective. Our hosts were short course StadtFabrik (City Factory) – MAK Vienna’s real- A bioregion re-connects us with living systems, time research lab. and each other, through the unique places where we live. It acknowledges that we live among watersheds, foodsheds, fibersheds, and 2015 Wild work: connecting the social food systems – not just in cities, towns, or ‘the and ecological by design. USA countryside’. Together with Isabel Carlisle and Regenesis we helped to run a two week course at workshop Schumacher College. John ran a week of workshops at California College of the Arts, San Francisco An explosion of new economy models is surfacing all around the world:

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Sharing. Peer-to-Peer. Commons’ ownership. 2014 Systems Thinking In Stockholm’s Mobility as a service. Bioregions. Local money. Archepelago Transition Towns. Something is happening – but is there a pattern? xskool Fifty designers, artists and architects spent a week at an Xskool on Grinda to explore two questions: 2015 Lab for Change Maker What does this food system taste like? and, How does this forest think? One team performed the Soil Amsterdam Tasting Ceremony we were invited to compare the workshop tastes of the teas and soils in silence. What is an economy actually for? Together with deWaag, social change makers, inventive life hackers and enthusiastic self-organized 2014 Edible Campus, Växjö, Sweden communities were invited to explore the power of xskool small actions to transform the bigger picture. What would it take to transform a campus covered in hard surfaces into a resilient social-ecological ecosystem? An Xskool at Linnaeus University, 2015 Next Steps In Service Innovation, named after a founding father of ecology, Santiago, Chile developed-campus wide proposals for what could grow where, who would do what, and the business workshop models to sustain this transformation across future A Pro-Am workshop on service design during generations. the Service Design Congress held in 2015 at the Universidad Católica de Chile 2014 Ecological Learning In Katoomba, 2014 School of the Moon, Scotland New South Wales workshop xskool A workshop with Clare Cooper from Cateran’s Together with the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Common Wealth to help develop her School of the this xskool brought together local government Moon project. We explored new ways for residents officials artists, designers, environmentalists, and visitors to connect with the ecological and teachers, students, architects, tourism operators cultural assets of ‘Big Tree Country.’ Our group and business people. The outcome was a shared included a blacksmith, a digital arts producer, a commitment to develop forms of tourism that land owner, a raspberry farmer, a soldier turned involve ecological learning. master mead maker, an expert on the ecosystems to be found in dry stone walls, a service designer, an artist who makes outfits that disguise you as a 2014 Informal Economies And Service rock, the tutor at a forest school, and a designer of Innovation, Barcelona water cleaning systems xskool When Claro Partners hosted the first Informal 2014 Leathershed Lab, India Economy Symposium in Restoration in Barcelona, an xskool session explored the opportunities for workshop service innovation in food systems. Together with our friends at the Unbox Festival in Delhi, and designer Mansi Gupta, an investigation at the heart of India’s largest leather-producing 2014 Social Enterprise Hub in Fremantle, region. We discussed ways to develop products and services that combine clean forms of leather Australia making with direct connections between between xskool producers and customers. In Freemantle an xskool explored practical ways to accelerate the growth of social micro-enterprises – with a special focus on the kind of hub, lab, or platform needed to sustain this kind of work through time. The highlight was a visit to Myre, a former deparrtment store now occupied by a thriving community of designer-makers.

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2014 Sustainable Tourism in Brisbane 2012 Cycle Commerce As Ecosystem In xskool New Delhi An xskool brought together five eco-tourism xskool businesses for a hands-on day that combined a At the UnBox Festival in Delhi an xskool brought lecture, brainstorm and service design clinic. For together service designers, cargo bike designers, David Morgans, Queensland’s Director Destination and city planners to explore practical steps needed & Market Development, the day “helped me to seek to accelerate the growth of cycle commerce as an opportunities outside the square for solutions & ecosystem inspiration”.

2012 Service Design For Rovaniemi, 2014 Food As Green Tourism Llubljana Lapland xskool For the Regional Development Agency of the workshop Ljubljana Urban Region, a talk and workshop During Rovaniemi Design Week, we visited small identified a short-list of new business and large companies to identify ways that service opportunities in food and tourism at the scale of a design can improve their work. In the coldest bioregion. xskool so far, we debated sustainable forestry with forest managers and experts from Ponsse.

2013 Living Systems on Grinda, 2012 Watershed Regeneration, Sao Paulo, Stockholm Archipelago Brazil xskool In what ways can design help people interact with learning journey living systems in ways that help both of them Together with Box1824, a learning journey to thrive? An xskool on the island of Grinda was a favelas, organic kitchens, watersheds – and partnership with Konstfack with the participation a creative digital hub. A visit to a favela called KADK in Denmark as part of the FuturePerfect Brasiliandia focused on ways to combine social Festival enterprise with the regeneration of damaged local watersheds.

2013 Social Design At Ambedkar 2012 Venice: From Gated Lagoon to University, New Delhi Bioregion workshops One of India’s newest universities occupies one workshop of the country’s oldest and most beautiful sites Together with a team of urbanists and ecologists (below). A faculty workshop explored projects for (below) from TU Graz, we ran a workshop in Venice AUD’s new social design masters programme around the proposition: From Gated Lagoon to Bioregion. Our report on the workshop is here.

2013 Living Systems In Dundee, Scotland 2012 Soup + Bike + Service: Zurich, xskool What happens when social innovation meets living Switzerland systems in the city? Together with Dundee’s Fleet xskool Collective, we gathered together the best projects In Zurich Eco Lab we sought out grassroots social from the city and asked: in what ways might service innovators and asked them: what aspect of your innovation help them do better? business could be improved with the help of service design? One of the green gems in the Zurich’s ecology scene, Suppen und Pedale (below) have grown their soup delivery business from 10 litres to 1,000 litres a day.

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2012 Post-Car Mobility, Fiat Isvor, Brazil 2010 Social Asset Hunting, Luzern, workshop Switzerland We challenged forty designers and managers from xskool Fiat Isvor to construct a manifesto on the theme In an xskool event called Asset Hunting, young mobility – with the instruction not to design any designers were sent to find a neglected social cars. They responded brilliantly! or ecological asset somewhere in Luzern. One group developed the idea for a business that will enhance one church’s revenues by opening it up to 2011 Food Systems In Istanbul, Turkey bouldering in the city. workshop Growing The BioCity was a a workshop for architects, city developers and planners to develop 2009 Stanford, Off-Grid Water proposals for new ways to share food knowledge xskool between city and country. Together with Stanford University’s ’Design For Change’ programme, we ran a professional design clinic on the theme of “off-grid water”. It focused 2011 A Rural Hub At West Lexham, on entrepreneurs in the Palo Alto region who were England developing tools to help citizens manage water sustainably. xskool We took 18 social innovators to explore the concept of a rural enterprise hub at an old Norfolk farm. We cooked meals in a cob oven (below) met with local 2009 Sustainable Daily Life Projects brewers, and built a path Clinic (Southern California) “What would life in a sustainable world be like?” Together with The Planning Center, Thackara 2011 Power Station As Social Hub, organized this workshop in Southern California for Iceland grassroots organisations to share their experiences using creative ways to share resources: Jules learning journey Dervaes’ urban homestead, for example, was During a Who Needs Oil Road Trip new service an inspiring example of a bario-based economy ideas were explored for a new social hub in a that dealt with issues of land-use, group self- disused electricity power station in Reykjavik. organisation, food coops, seed storage, and green With Dori Gislason, Andri Snaer Magnason, Soley jobs – to name just a few. Other highlights were Stefansdottir. Mud Baron’s edible schoolyards; Irene Pena’s community medicinal herb garden; the “place- based philanthropy” of Brian Bery; a ride-share 2011 Rural Innovation, Bangor, scheme for 16,000 children in Orange Country. Nor th Wales www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/01/ xskool sustainable_dai_1.php For an xskool entitled Innovation In A Small Nation, we explored how a resilient economy can emerge in a region with one foot in a rural 2009 Four Days Halifax economy, its other in a world of universities and nuclear power (below). (Halifax Nova Scotia) workshops Thackara co-produced Four Days Halifax - a time- 2011 Design And Permaculture, compressed mini-festival whose aim was to help Angsbacka, Sweden the city get its hands muddy in a green economy. Its starting point was that many elements of a resilient xskool Halifax already exist in embryonic form - but not At the first Future Perfect Festival, in Sweden, our all of them are visible in their own backyard. The conversations were face-to-face, not face-to- most important steps were to identify these local screen – sometimes in a permaculture garden. assets - people, mainly, but also projects and places; then, using a variety of event formats, we

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explored what practical steps might help these China, and India to develop new design ideas for projects improve and multiply Our partners were the show (the India one with assistance from Breakhouse, a design firm, and The Hub Halifax. Doors of Perception). A “catalogue of promising solutions” addressed questions that most of us www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/06/ confront: how to take care of people, work, study, four_days_halif_1.php move around, find food, eat, and share equipment.

www.edizioniambiente.it 2008 Saint-Etienne, France Commissioner City Eco Lab, the main French 2004 Design and local knowledge, design biennial. 80,000 visitors came to interact with more than 50 projects from the region; Bonholm, Denmark they met urban farmers, watershed restorers, workshop and bicycle couriers – and ate at Cantine 50km. The Bonholm Rooster, a superior kind of chicken, is Common to all our xskools is an over-riding a star product on “Food Island”. So is the legendary question: In what ways can design help people white salmon, a ghostly creature that passes quietly interact with living systems in ways that help both by this misplaced Danish island (it sits between of them thrive? Shown below, a group from the Sweden and Poland) only in winter months. This Casino supermarket on a visit to the urban farming desolate but fertile spot was the location for the section of City Eco Lab. final workshop in Spark!, a service design project in response to the question: when traditional industries disappear from a locality, what is to take 2007 New Delhi, India their place? (Nexo, on Bonholm, is one of dozens of Baltic and European fishing ports where industrial In Doors of Perception 9 on food systems and fishing has become unsustainable). A conference design, we took specialists from 20 global cities to in Oslo reviewed the lessons learned in this the markets, communal kitchens, street food and experiment, reflected on the concept of “territorial farms of Delhi. This was our convention centre capital”, and begin the design of new projects for at Doors 9 on food systems. Every evening, with the future. Indian experts, we discussed the lessons learned on these expeditions. www2.uiah.fi/virtu/spark/conference.html

2007 North East England For Designs Of 2004 Want to be a design metropolis? The Time Montreal, Quebec As Director of the the UK’s social innovation symposium biennial, we ran live projects that explored what What is a design metropolis? Should a city aspire life in a sustainable region could be like. More than to become one? This symposium (which was 20,000 citizens came to the Dott Festival (below) supported by Doors of Perception) cast a critical on the banks of the River Tyne. A highlight of Dott, eye over the policies and programs of Montreal, in 2007, was a presentation called Thing-Link Saint-Etienne and other aspirant design cities, about the potential of tracking technologies to and compared them with established international enhance transparency in supply chains. design capitals. Francois Barre (France) and Saskia Also for Dott07, we enabled people with dementia Sassen (United States) together with John Thackara and their carers to describe the range of practical were keynote lecturers actions that might improve their lives. They presented these stories at our festival on the banks of the River Tyne. 2004 Creativity and the City Conference, Amsterdam 2005 Milan Triennale conference An international conference on “Creativity and John Thackara was advisor to an exhibition and the City” was held in Amsterdam’s former gas conference organised by Ezio Manzini at the works, Westergasfabriek. Westergasfabriek is an Milan Triennale. “In tomorrow’s communities, an urban project to transform a former industrial site obsession with things will replaced by a fascination into a public and cultural amenity, and it wanted with events.” Manzini ran workshops in Brazil, to share the lessons it has learned, and bring

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together comparable projects from around the 2000 Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, world. Thackara supported the event with speaker Italy suggestions and advance publicity and a keynote lecture, “The Post-spectacular city” which has Institutional development been widely cited. John Thackara was a member of start-up team (and of the Steering Committee until the end of 2003) www.creatievestad.nl that established this new research institute in Italy, supported by an independent association of major private companies brought together by Olivetti 2003 Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC) and Telecom Italia. Thackara’s specific tasks were to help develop and articulate the institute’s John Thackara was a member until the end of 2004 basic concept and organisational form; define and of a four person think-tank developing concepts articulate the roles of, and benefits to, industry for its Director of a next-generation national sponsors; organize an international workshop of childrens hospital experts to refine the research programme; write job and person profiles for professors, researchers and students; create and implement launch phase 2001 For 1000 professors – communications and produce inaugural event; Life in the learning economy, Amsterdam organize a workshop for researchers and industry on new business models for interactive products conference and services. For Panorama, the Institute was “a How will we learn when knowledge changes so fast? point of reference for the generation of new ideas Will there still be a role for teachers, when students and a new design culture.” Prestinenza called can learn for themselves? These questions faced Interaction Ivrea “a model for the moribund Italian 1,000 university teachers at Oro/Oro: TeachersLab, educational system”. And Francesco Gavazzi, in a a unique event organised in January 2001 by cover story for Corriere della Sera, proclaimed that the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam “at Ivrea, students design new ways of interaction University of Professional Education). Doors of between man and technology” Perception organised a three-day conference which featured 36 Dutch and international speakers from inside and outside education.The idea of our client was to help them all get online and up-to-speed on new learning processes by the end of the event. Oro-Oro had a simple structure: information plus inspiration in the morning, hands-on practice in the afternoon – in a software environment designed by our partners in OroOro, Mediamatic. Each of the three days has a theme: ‘Seeking and Finding’; ‘Editing and Interacting’; ‘Teaching and Earning’. www.oro.hva.nl

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B.3 1993-1999

DIRECTOR, NETHERLANDS DESIGN INSTITUTE

Highlights

1999 Wisselstroom design scenarios for the future of mobility Presence European project on elderly and internet Eternally Yours conference and book on long-life products Maypole European project on social computing Trespassers 1996 publication on design scenarios for sustainability World Internet Expo: Dutch Pavilion Wisselstroom design scenarios for transport intersections Doors of Perception 4 - “Speed” Kust op de Kaart Legible City website and knowledge map of coastal projects conference on cities and information If/Then Things That Think Europe/USA publication of “yearbook of the near design/business workshops on connected devices future” editor Jan Abrams

1995 1998 Doors of Perception 3- “Info-Eco” Doors of Perception 5 - “play” The Flat Space O2 Website Design for electronic screens for eco-designers worldwide The Prototype- workshop series Lightness From Dada To Data book + lectures conference, with Virtual Platform and Young Designers and Industry Council of Europe 18 European companies + scenarios

From Practice To Policy 1994 new media conference with Virtual Platform European Community Design Prize (with EU) European Design Industry Summit 1997 (with EU) Design In The Knowledge Economy Design Across Europe seminar series report on the European design industry The Flat Space 2 Toshio Iwai: Media Artist screen design futures exhibition for opening of Institute’s building European Design Industry Summit Action-Reaction European Design Prize exhibition in Japan Winners! Doors of Perception 2 “Home” book published Smart Matter - smart materials seminar, with Stedelijk Museum

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1993 Materials of Invention seminar series and book Tomorrow’s Literacies lectures and exhibition at Frankfurt Book Fair The Cultural Economy Of The Applied Arts - report Eternally Yours Design And The Culture Industries conference and book on product endurance international professional meeting The New Old Doors of Perception 1: report and conference plus DoP CDRom (with UK DesignAge Network)

B.4 1985-1992

MANAGING DIRECTOR, DESIGN ANALYSIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (1988-1992) MODERN CULTURE EDITOR, HARPERS & QUEEN DESIGN CORRESPONDENT, THE GUARDIAN DESIGN CORRESPONDENT, THE SPECTATOR CORRESPONDENT, THE LATE SHOW (BBC)

Highlights

1992 Victoria & Albert Museum London 1991 Mitsui, Tokyo Research and procurement (in ten months, from Crafts In Architecture A series of exhibitions for start to opening) of the national exhibition at the architects on such topics as hand-made paper, and to commemorate The Queen’s 40th anniversary as textiles. Produced with Peter Dormer. sovereign. Designed by Pentagram. 1990 British Broadcasting Corporation 1992 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research and commentator on the BBC Design Awards programmes in 1990, 1992. Vienna, Leipzig, Turin, Brussels 1990 The Inventive Spirit, a touring art, technology and design exhibition, was a Brussels centrepiece Design clinic for entrepreneurs, Scotland during Britain’s six-month EC Presidency. The Highlands and Islands Development Board, in Peter Dormer curated. Scotland, helped hundreds of small and medium sized companies, over a very wide geographical area, innovate new products, services, and 1992 Architectural Association, Brussels business models. Thackara helped their Inverness and London office stage design scenario workshops in which entrepreneurs from different companies helped T-Zone Exhibition of Japanese architecture and each other envisage radical scenarios and how they video, with Riiche Miyake might be implemented. also at the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow.

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1989 European Commission, Paris Interactivity and Environments (Paris and Inverness) 1989 Centre Europeenne de Technoculture international conferences, with University of Paris VIII .

1989 Centre Pompidou, Paris Image and Object - Nouveau Design de Londres featured in the Centre Pompidou exhibition and catalogue series ‘The Avant Gardes of Europe’. With Japan Airlines.

1989 Alfred Dunhill Limited London and Klondike The Englishman’s Companion Exhibition for Dunhill on its 80th anniversary; curated by Jonathan Glancey and designed by Nigel Coates.

1989 British Medical Association, London Mirror of Medicine Exhibition for the 150th anniversary the British Medical Journal; curator Peter Dormer; designer Nigel Coates.

1987 Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo International symposium on science, innovation and design.

1987 Axis Gallery, Tokyo An exhibition of ‘live prototypes’, called Leading Edge, in which 40 designers created prototypes with support from manufacturers. Shown in Tokyo and Osaka.

B.5 1980-1985

EDITOR, DESIGN MAGAZINE, LONDON

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C. PUBLICATIONS How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today Translations C.1 BOOKS BY JOHN THACKARA

How To Thrive In The Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today Chinese edition London, Thames & Hudson, 2015 (Tongji) 2018 ISBN 978 0 500 518083 Spanish edition Experentia, 2017

Italian edition Postmedia Books, 2017

Korean edition Ahn Graphics, 2017

Wouldn’t It be Great If... Designs of The Time Manual

London, Design Council, 2007 [link]

In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World.

Translations Chinese edition (Jiangsu Fine Art Publishing House) summer 2021

Polish edition Na grzbiecie fali. O In the Bubble: projektowaniu w złożonym świecie, Designing in a Complex World. Warsawa, SWPS Academica, 2010 Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, French edition 2005 [link] In the Bubble, de la ISBN: 9780262201575 complexité au design durable, John Thackara, Publication de l’université de St Etienne, Cité du Design éditions

India Economic Edition PrenticeHall, 2008

Brazil edition Plano B - In the Bubble, by The New Geographies of Learning. John Thackara [link] Spanish edition (Verdeel en Leer) Diseñando Para un mundo complejo. Acciones para Amsterdam: University of Professional lograr la sustentabilidad, Education (HvA), 2003. Editorial Designio, Mexico, 2013 [link] First published in Dutch as Verdeel en leer? Italian edition Over kansen op het internet (2000) In the Bubble Design Per un Futuro Sostenibile, Ed Allemandi 2008

Dutch Edition In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World, SUN, 2009 Winners! How Europe’s Most Successful Companies Use Design To Innovate.

London: Ashgate, 1999

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DoPRom

Doors of Perception CDRom; co-editor with K. van Riet and W. Velthoven Amsterdam: Mediamatic, 1994

Architects’ Data: Handbook of Building Types, Ernst Neufert

(ed. John Thackara, Vincent Jones) London: Wiley, 1992

T-Zone

Co-edited with Riiche Miyake, Brussels: Europalia (with Architectural Association), 1991

Image and Object: Nouveau Design de Londres

(ed). Paris: Centre Pompidou, 1990

Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object Design After Modernism: Revised edition Beyond the Object Japan edition (revised). London: Thames and Hudson, 1988 Tokyo: Kajima, 1992

New British Design with Stuart Jane. London: Thames and Hudson, and Wolff Olins 1987

Lost in Space: A Traveller’s Tale

The Lumiance Lecture, 11 September 1994, Paradiso, Amsterdam. De Grafische Haarlem, in opdracht van Lumiance 1994. ISBN 90 6552 028 7

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C.2 JOHN THACKARA ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

John Thackara website http://thackara.com (formerly doorsofperception.com). A blog, and archive, online since 1993. (946 posts as at June 2021) John Thackara articles at Resilience John Thackara articles published at P2P Foundation John Thackara articles in Design Observer Doors of Perception Newsletter Doors of Perception Report (in Wired) www.wired.com/2009/08/the- latest-doors-of-perception-report-2/ doorsofperception.com was published by the Netherlands Design Institute 1993-1999, and from 2000 by Doors of Perception bv. Web producer K. van Riet; hosting Webtic; SysOp JJ Spreij, Demon.

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C.3 MULTIPLE-AUTHOR BOOKS: CHAPTERS BY JOHN THACKARA

Supping With The Devil in Culture Archifutures in Volume 4: Back To The Present in Rethinking Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Thresholds. A field guide The Modular, Burkhard Meltzer Years of Design Observer Jessica to navigating the future of (ed.) USM / Thames & Hudson, Helfand and Michael Beirut architecture. Sophie Lovell, Fiona 2015 (eds.) MIT Press, 2019 Shipwright (eds.) Afterword in An Introduction to The Ecozoic City, article Sustainability and Aesthetics: contributed to The United The Arts and Design for the Nations University, 2013, Environment, Christopher https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/ Crouch (eds) Brown Walker the-ecozoic-city Press, 2015

Wir Mussen Eher An Einen Wald Preface in Recoded City: Co- Als An Einen Einzelnen Baum Creating Urban Futures, Thomas Denken in Visionen Gestalten Ermacora, Lucy Bullivant, Making As Connecting in Design (interview) Elisabeth Hartung London, Routledge, 2015 as a Tool for Transition: The Atelier (ed.) Stuttgart, av edition, 2017 Luma Approach, Jan Boelen, Vera Sacchetti (eds.) Lum a Arles, Lightness in Design: Critical and 2019 Primary Sources, DJ Huppatz (ed.) Bloomsbury, 2016 New Bauhaus Vorkurs (Preliminary Course) in Design Utopias Are Over: Cities are Living Rehearsals: Conversation about Systems in Damn, 2016 Bauhaus Lessons Katja Klaus, Regina Bittner (eds.) Bauhaus Foundation, Spector Books Ways Of Knowing, in The Gallery Leipzig, 2019 of Senses, Yelena Baturina, ed, Design for a Restorative Economy (Milan) Monadori 2014 in Design Harvests: An Acupunctural Design Approach Towards Sustainability, Lou From Oil Age to Soil Age in Yonqi, Francesca Valsecchi, Fear and Love: Reactions To A Clarissa Diaz (eds.) Mistra Urban Complex World, Justin McGuirk Futures, 2019 (ed.) London, Phaidon, 2016

From Neighbourhood To Urban Future in Expo Site Milano Bioregion: The City as a Living As A Global Village, Luigi Ferrara System in Human Cities: and Maria Grazia Mattei (eds.) A Whole New Cloth: Politics And Challenging The City Scale, Cité Institute Without Boundaries, The Fashion System in Routledge du Design St. Etienne and Clear 2015 Handbook of Sustainable Fashion, Village, 2018 Chapter in Design and Violence Kate Fletcher & Linds Grose (eds.) Ethos meets John Thackara Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt Routledge, London, 2014 (interview) in Ethos, UK, 2017 (eds.) New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2015 When We Connect With Living Systems in Ding, Mozilla Foundation, 2017

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The Ezozoic City in Audi Urban Open Source Design in Open Future Award (ed.) Stylepark, Design Now; Why Design Cannot Frankfurt, Trademark Remain Exclusive (eds.) Bas Publishing, 2013 (Author was van Abel et al, BIS Publishers, jury chairman) Amsterdam, 2011

Interview in Erfolgreich als Architecture Without Buildings Kaufen für die Müllhalde Designer - Designzukunft denken in Archiphoenix: Faculties for Cosima Dannoritzer, Juergen und gestalten. Joachim Kobuss, Architecture, Ana Dzokic, Marc Reuss. In German: the book of Michael Hardt, Birkhäuser Neelen, Saskia van Stein (eds.) the film ‘The Lightbulb Berlin, 2012 Netherlands Architecture Conspiracy’ (about planned Institute, Rotterdam, 2010 obsolescence) 2013 Caen Les Rencontres: Architecture http://www.amazon.com/ Urbanisme Developpement Kaufen-Müllhalde-Cosima- Durable Dannoritzer-Jürgen/ Commissaire Francois Geindre, dp/3936086664 La Ville de Caen, Caen, 2010 Design In The Light Of Dark Interview in Les Strategies Energy Culturelles Pour Un Nouveau in Architecture and Energy Urban Farming Middelsbrough in Monde, Actes du Forum d’Avignon, William Braham et al (eds.) (New Carrot City: Creating Places for Gallimard, 2010 York) 2013 Urban Agriculture, Mark Foreword in Service Design, Gorgolewski June Komisar and From Insight to Implementation, Joe Nasr, The Monacelli Press, Andrew Polaine, Lavrans Lovlie, New York, 2011 and Ben Reason (eds.) Rosenfeld Re-Thinking Mobility Media, 2013 in (Im)Mobility. Exploring the Introduction in Handbook of Boundaries of Hypermobility, Open Design for Sustainability, Stuart 21, Rotterdam, 2011 Walker and Jacques Giard (eds.) Urban Farming in My Green City, Climate Change: Metrics, or Berg, 2013 Back to Nature with Attitude and Aesthetics? in Cultural strategies Style, R. Klanten et al (eds.) for a new world: Proceedings of Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2011 Forum d’Avignon 2009. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2010

Food, Food Systems and Design in Creating Desired Futures: How Design Thinking Innovates Business. (ed.) Michael Shamiyeh and DOM Research Laboratory. Nature in the City in Ja Natuurlijk/ Birkhauser, Basel, 2010 Yes Naturally – A New Vision Of Introduction in Green Dream: How Ecological Intelligence (eds.) From landscape as infrastrucure Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, Ellen ter Gast et al, Rotterdam, to landscape as bioregion in Winy Maas, Pirjo Haikola, Ulf NAI Publishers, 2013 GAM07 Zero Landscape. Unfolding Hackauf, The Why Factory (eds.) Crossing The Road in The Car in Active Agencies of Landscape Rotterdam NAi Publishers, 2010 2035: Mobility Planning for the Klaus K. Loenhart (ed.) Springer Near Future Kati Rubinyi (ed.) Verlag, Graz, 2011 Barcelona, Actar, 2013

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Low Entropy Urbanism in Interview in Worldchanging: A Towards The Megacity Solutuion: User’s Guide for the 21st Century Megacities Foundation Jubilee (ed.) Alex Steffen, 2007 Publication Wendy Tan Interview and Devisari Tunas (eds.) Experimenta 5, February, 2007 Amsterdam, Megacities Foundation, 2010 Chapter in Uncommon Ground: Chapter in Bessere Zukunft? Auf Creative Encounters Across Sectors Persone: Siamo Tutti Economie Der Suche Nach Den Raumen Von and Discplines Cathy Brickwood, Emergenti in Etica e Design Morgen, Friedrich von Borries, Bronac Ferran (eds.) BIS Riflessione (ed.) Lorenzo Imbesi. Matthias Böttger, Florian Publishers. Amsterdam, 2006 Rome designpress (sic), 2009 Heilmeyer B: Merve Verlag, Introduction in Design and the Interview in Ravistettava, Berlin, 2008 growth of knowledge PJ Stappers, omskakas toisinajattelijan Introduction in L’Îlot Delft (NL) Delft University of käsikirja, eds Saku Tuominen, d’Amaranthes: Emanuel Technology, 2006 Katja Lindroos. Helsinki, Louisgrand, Editions Roger Kovakantinen, 2009 Tator, 2008 Clean Growth: From Mindless Introduction in Biennale Development to Design internationale design Saint- Mindfulness, Innovation White Etienne de Collectif, Constance Paper 1/6, Series Editor Stuart Rubini (ed.) Cité du Design,2008 Madonald, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 2009 Introduction in Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories (ed.) Make Sense Not Stuff: A Three Chapter in Shaping Things Jonathan Chapman, London, Step Plan To Connect Design Bruce Sterling, Cambridge, MIT Earthscan, 2008 Schools With The Green Economy Press, 2005 in Cumulus Working Papers Chapter in Creativity and the Saint-Etienne edited by Joysane City, Simon Franke and Evert Franc et al, University of Art and Verhagen (eds.) NAi Publishers Design Helsinki, 2009 (Rotterdam) 2005 The Innovator Next Door in What Designers and the Age of Fear Matters, McKinsey Quarterly, in Interactions, Volume 12, 2009 Association for Computing Chapter in Innovation by design Chapter in (Re-)searching a Machinery, 2005 in public services, Emily Thomas digital bauhaus. Thomas Binder, (ed.) Jonas Löwgren and Lone Design Council / Solace Malmborg (eds.) Springer, 2008 Foundation, 2009 Chapter in Beyond The Foreword in Enabling solutions for Sustainable: What would sustainable living, Ezio Manzini, architecture be like after the point Stuart Walker, University of of zero carbon emission and peak oil? Edited by Piet Vollard. 2008 Calgary Press, 2008 Chapter in Kaos Pilots A-Z, Uffe

Chapter in Collaborative Services: Chapter in Architectural Elbek (ed.) Aarhus: KaosPilots, Social Innovation and Design for regionalism: collected writings 2004 Sustainability Francois Jegou on place, identity, modernity (ed.) Editore: Poli Design, 2008 Vincent B. Canizaro, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

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How To Be A Hub in Cumulus Chapter in Airport, Working Papers, St. Petersburg. Jeremy Miller and Michiel Helsinki UIAH, 2004 Schwarz (eds.) London: Photographers Gallery, 1998 Chapter in Spark! Design And Local Knowledge, Jan Verwijnen, Chapter in Eternally Yours. Ed van Helsinki, UIAH|European Hinte (ed.) Rotterdam: 010, 1997 Commission, 2004 Chapter in Presence: Elders Online, Chapter in Business by Design John Amsterdam: Netherlands Design Creativity and the City in Kao (ed.) New York, Allworth, Institute, 1999 Amsterdam: Westergasfabriek, 1995 2003 Chapter in Edge of the Millenium, Next, in Venice Architecture Susan Yelavitch (ed.) NY, Cooper Biennale, D Sudjic (ed.) Venice, Union, 1995 2003 Lost In Space: A Traveler’s Tale, Chapter in Libre De Contexte, Haarlem: De Grafische Haarlem, Context-Free, Kontext=Frei, Marti 1994 Guixe, Martí Guixé, Inga Knölke, Chapter in New Media Culture In Chapter in Ecstacity, Nigel Coates, 2003 Europe, C Brickwood (ed.) Brian Hatton, Architectural Amsterdam: de Balie, 1999 Chapter in Beyond Media: Association (Great Britain) 1992 Architecture and Video, Marco Brizzi and Paola Giaconia (eds.) Chapter in Formes des Metropoles, Editrice Compositori, Firenze, ed. F. Burkhardt. Paris, Centre 2002 Pompidou, 1992

Contole geven of nemen: Chapter in Tokyo Design Visions, een politieke agenda voor de Toyo Ito (ed.) London: Victoria & informatie-samenleving Krijn Albert Museum, 1992 van Beek et al (eds.) Infodrome / Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Chapter in If/Then, Janet Abrams Chapter in Metropolis (ed.) Janet Amsterdam, 2001 (ed.) New York: DAP, 1999 Abrams. London: Institute for The Killer App Is Green Chapter in Tresspassers, Contemporary Arts, 1991 in Proceedings of NIC 2001, C Bakker and Ed van Hinte (eds.) Chapter in Urban Design Strategy New York: ACM, 2001 Rotterdam: 010, 1999 For 2000 Chapter in Hunch, Berlage Tokyo: Tokyu / Kajima, 1990 Institute report, Issues 4-5, Wiel Leading Edge in Axis (ed.) Tokyo: Arents and Jennifer Sigler (eds.) 1990 Berlage Institute, 2001 Chapter in Narrative Architecture Chapter in New Media New Today. London : NATO Narratives? Anne Burdick (ed.) Publications | Air Gallery, 1990 New York: American Center for Design, 2000 Chapter in Workspheres. Chapter in Transfiguration, Centre Paola Antonelli (ed.) New York: Belge de la bande dessinée Asahi Keynote: The Design Challenge Museum of Modern Art, 1998 Garasu Kabushiki Kaisha - 1989 Of Pervasive Computing, in Proceedings of CHI2000. New Chapter in The Style Engine. Chapter in Eva Jiricna. London: York, ACM: 2000 Giannino Malossi (ed.) New Architectural Association, 1988 York: Chronicle, 1998 Vormgevingsinstituut Chapter in Daniel Weil. London: in Benthem|Crouwel Architects, Chapter in From Dada To Data. Architectural Association, 1988 1980-2000 Rotterdam, Amsterdam: Virtual Platform, Uitgeverij 010, 1999 1998 Publications • page 19 C.V. John Thackara, updated June 2021

D. BIENNIALS AND CONFERENCE CURATOR

D1. 2019 Curator, Urban-Rural (Shanghai) D2. 2008 Commissioner, City Eco Lab, French Design Biennial (St Etienne) D3. 2007 Programme Director, Designs of the Time (DOTT07) (Newcastle) D4. 1993- Curator and Chair, Doors of Perception

D.1 CURATOR, URBAN-RURAL

Shanghai, 2019 city directly thanks to platfirms such as Taobao (Alibaba) Rural Live-Streaming. “We’ve been innovating new links between city and rural for Zhangyan Harvests Festival ten years now” Professor Yongqi explained, ”but Many people want to reconnect with nature and Zhangyang Harvests takes this work up to a new rural life – but cannot move out of the city for good. Zhangyan Harvests Future Country Living level. thackara.com/press-release-urban-rural- Festival in Shanghai, was filled with practical exhibition-in-shanghai/ ways to reconnect the two worlds. Commissioned by Professor Lou Yongqi, head of design and innovation, and Vice President, of Tongji More Urban-Rural content: University, the festival featured an exhibition called Slideshare www.slideshare.net/johnthackara/ Urban-Rural curated by John Thackara (who is a visiting professor). urbanrural-exhibition-shanghai-2019-thackara Video (20m) www.youtube.com/PoK1lHmupNA

Located in a beautiful high-tech agricultural dome, Text: Urban-Rural: Ten takeaways (including Urban-Rural featured sixty real-world projects. Chinese text): thackara.com/urbanrural-takeaways These included apps that enable urban people be part-time farmers; streaming platforms that Bioregioning: Pathways to Urban-Rural connect farmers directly to the city; and an algae Reconnection (or download the PDF) lab that produces 3d cups out of bioplastics. Other The Urban-Rural exhibition was informed by this Urban-Rural talking points included a Soil Sensing paper by John Thackara published earlier in 2019 in Ceremony, a plan for next-generation biofarms, She Ji. The paper argues that a metabolic rift, which and forty place-based learning hubs from around runs through the economy and culture, distracts the world; these included a School for Village our attention from care for the biosphere. To heal Hosts, forest schools, and a mobile the metabolic rift, a shared purpose beer academy. is needed that diverse groups people can relate to, and support. Care for the bioregion – or bioregioning – is Within the framework of its transition a strong candidate for that shared to an Ecological Civilization, China purpose. The reconnection of urban has made the health of the country’s and rural ecosystems, and social 200 million small farms seriously. infrastructures, enable the emergence The purpose of Urban-Rural was to of new enterprises. demonstrate how, using the latest co-operation platforms, millions of small farmers can co-exist with larger food system players, and city-based customers, on equal terms. China’s next-generation rural hubs also enable farmers and rural enterprises to connect with the

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D.2 COMMISIONER, CITY ECO LAB

France, 2009 City Eco Lab was a two-week festival of projects that took place in November in St Etienne, France. 80,000 people came to engage with participants in 50 projects that involved productive urban gardens; low energy food storage; communal composting solutions; re-discovery of hidden rivers; neighbourhood energy dashboards; de-motorized courier services; and a wide variety of software tools to help people share resources. The event was hosted by the St Etienne Cite du Design; its designers were Exyzt and Gaëlle Gabillet. doorsofperception.com/city_eco_lab.php

D.3 PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, DESIGNS OF THE TIME (dott)

North East England, 2007 Thackara developed the content of Designs of the time (Dott 07), a year of community design projects in North East England that explored what life in a sustainable region could be like - and how design can help us get there. It was an initiative of the UK Design Council and a regional development agency, One North East. More than 200,000 citizens engaged with Dott, including 20,000 who came to the concluding two week festival on the banks of the River Tyne, and 15,000 school students who took part in Eco Design Challenge. www.dott07.com/

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D.4 CURATOR AND CHAIR, DOORS OF PERCEPTION

1993- Doors of Perception was design conference in Europe and India which brought together grassroots innovators to work with designers to imagine sustainable futures – and take practical steps to meet basic needs in new and sustainable ways. Starting in 1993, nine conferences were organised with an average attendance of about one thousand people; they came from a total of 52 countries. The results of Doors were published from 1994 on its website, which won a ‘Peoples Voice Award’ at the Webbies -- the so-called “Oscars of the Internet” - in 1999. In addition to the main Doors conferences, there were also Open Doors public events, two Doors On Tour roadshows (to the USA, and India), two CD-roms, and a book. In the words of ‘Wired’, Doors is where “top conceptual thinkers ruminate on sticky new media subjects”; for ‘Scientific American’, Doors “examines new paths to development ... a place where key questions are raised”; ‘NRC’ recognised that Doors “brings together the international avant-garde in new media and computer networks.” Until 1999, Doors was produced by The Netherlands Design Institute. In January 2000, Doors of Perception became an independent foundation (stichting) with John Thackara, formerly director Doors of Perception Conferences of the Netherlands Design Institute, and Kristi van Riet, as directors. In 2001, a new company, Doors of Perception Projects BV, was set up. Doors 9 Food, Delhi 2007 Doors 8 Infra, Bangalore, 2005 doorsofperception.com/conference_archive.html Doors East 2, Tomorrow’s Services, Bangalore, 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_of_Perception Doors 7 Flow, Amsterdam, 2002 Doors East, Ahmedabad, India, 2000 DOORS OF PERCEPTION 9 - Food Doors 6 Lightness, Amsterdam, 2000 systems: the design agenda (New Delhi, Doors 5 Play, Amsterdam, 1998 2007) Doors 4 Speed, Amsterdam, 1996 Doors 3 Info-Eco, Amsterdam, 1994 Global food systems are unsustainable in terms of environmental impact, health, and social Doors 2 Home, Amsterdam, 1994 quality. Forty percent of the ecological impact of Doors 1, Amsterdam, 1993 an ‘advanced’ city can be attributed to its food systems. But what to do?Doors of Perception 9 in India gathered together inspiring new models and tools. Indian and international experts visited markets, crocus farms, and street food culture. Each evening, these experiences informed discussions of information systems; food miles; energy use; localization; Community Supported Agriculture. http://www.doorsofperception.com/ archives/2007/03/doors_of_percep_7.php

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E. CONFERENCE CHAIR, PROFESSIONAL JURIES

Bottom-Up Torino (Turin, 2020) Jury

Core77 Design Awards (USA, 2015) Design for Social Impact, Jury Chair

Fluid Time Symposium (VIenna, 2015) Symposium Chair

Lab For Change Makers (Amsterdam, 2015) Symposium Chair

Sustrans (London, 2015) Sustainable Mobility, Chair

Chora Connection (Copenhagen, 2015) Back To The Land Symposium, Chair

Curry Stone Design Prize (USA, 2014) International Jury

Unbox Festival (Delhi 2013) AHRC Social Innovation Challenge, Jury President

Audi Urban Future Initiative (Istanbul, 2012) International Jury, Chair

World Design Forum (Eindhoven, 2011, 2012) WDF12 Design & Health, Conference Chair

Buckminster Fuller Award (New York, 2011) International Jury

Condé Nast Traveller Design Awards (London, 2011) International Jury

Rotterdam Design Prize (Rotterdam, 2011) Jury Chair

India Future of Change (India, 2011) Designing Innovation, International Jury

Victor Papanek Award (Vienna, 2011) International Jury

EDF Sustainable Design Challenge (Paris, 2010) International Jury

Royal Society of Arts (London, 2009) Design Futures Awards, Jury Chair

Forum d’Avignon (Avignon, 2009) Beyond GDP, Panel Chair

City Eco Lab (St Etienne, 2008) French Design Biennial, Curator

Dott 07 (Newcastle, 2007) Social Innovation Biennial, Programme Director

Picnic Green Challenge (Amsterdam, 2007) International Jury

Aspen Design Summit (Aspen, 2006) Conference Chair

Fused Space (Rotterdam, 2004) International Jury

Spark! Design For Local Knowledge (Oslo, 2003) Conference Chair

International Browser Day (The Netherlands, 2002) Conference and Jury Chair

Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3) (Europe, 2000) Project Chair, Presence

DNP Network Art Award (Tokyo, 1996) International Jury

European Design Prize (Brussels, 1994) Jury and Conference Chair

Biennale Interieur (Kortrijk, Belgium, 1994) International Jury

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F. KEYNOTE LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS

2021 (The following events were online; I have stated the host city)

05 Jan Bangor, Wales: Polar Workshop, Jury 11 Jan Glasgow, Scotland, (GSA Winter School) Rewilding and Design 22 Jan Stockholm, Biopoetics and Design (seminar with Martin Avila, Konstfack,) 04 Feb Arles, France, Atelier Luma, Algae Lab (interview for Algae Newsletter) 15 Feb Milano, Polimi, Lifeworlds: Multi-Species Cities and Relational Design 06 May Ivrea, Italy, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, video statement 15 May Catania, Sicily, Abadir workshop, Urban Rural Reconnection 20 May Lisbon, Bauhaus Of The Seas:Launch Webinar 26 May Leeds, Leeds-Beckett University Lecture, Alive 00 May Torino, Circolo Del Design, Anniversary Festival Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Humanizing Technology, circolodeldesign.it/ 30 June Low Impact (Interview) What Does The Future Hold? https://www.lowimpact.org/john-thackara-future-humanity/ 29 June Alès, Outdoor Festival Cratère Surfaces, Soil. Fish.Tourism: ’Art As Infrastructure’ 27 June Quanzhou, China, Ecological Civilization Research Institute, Cihai Ecological and Environmental Protection Foundation, Rural Ecological Design

2020 (The following events were online; I have stated the host city)

12 Apr London, Urban Farming & Biodiversity, Participatory City 07 May Wien, Post-Covid Tourism 15 May NYC, Social Innovation, Design Bathik, Ahmed Aansari 09 Jun London, New Geographies of Innovation, Royal College of Art 12 Jun Singapore, Woha 13 Jun London, Design & AI, Royal College of Art 19 Jun Turin, Bottom-Up Torino, webcast 22 Jun Stockholm, Back to the Land, Summer School 25 Jun Edinburgh, Design For Change, Edinburgh University

26 Jun Delhi, Higher Education Summit, Ashoka/Pearl, businessworld.in/Ashoka-University 30 Jun Poland, Gdynia Design Days 24 Jul London, RCA2020, Royal College of Art Degree Show 01 Sep New York, Urban-Rural, School of Visual Arts 15 Sep Amsterdam/Helsinki, Books As Convivial Technology, Stora Enso 23 Sep Singapore, Construction Declares, Hossein Rezai-Jorabi

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01 Oct Oslo, Oslo Science City, National Academy of the Arts 04 Oct Austria, Cities, Nature, Design, UNESCO, Graz 10 Oct Mexico City, Oil Age to Soil Age, Abierto Mexico, DCMX

25 Oct Barcelona, La Casa Dels Classics, Reset, Interview 2021.festivalclassics.cat/john-thackara/ 27 Oct Barcelona, Changes Festival 04 Nov Hong Kong, PolyU PhD Seminar 06 Nov Poland, Sensory Orders, Ars Electronica, Erik Adigard 09 Nov Dublin, National College of Art and Design 17 Nov Hong Kong, Relational Ecology & Design, KISD Keulen PolyU PhDs 20 Nov Karslruhe, Driving The Human festival, Karslruhe Media Centre (ZKM) What’s Urgent, youtube.com/zMj-q26Wgdg 25 Nov Milano, Design Jam Web Talk, Polimi 26 Nov Shanghai, Sustainable Design Panel, D&I, Tongji 26 Nov Bangalore, Hopeful Futures (text) Quicksand 03 Dec England, Relational Ecology & Design, Schumacher College 10 Dec Brazi, Lifeworld, Premio Bornancini De Design, Brazil Design Awards 19 Dec Italy, Rural Futures, Limnaria

2019 Barcelona, Museo Disseny, 2018 Good Work Institute, USA Oil Age to Soil Age Shanghai, China, Shanghai. Emerging Practices Collaborative Cities Conference (EPC2019) Rewilding AI Social Infrastructure 2017 New York, SVA Products of Torino Italy, Terra Madre Serving Pune, India. India Design Design, Social Design: Working the local: From transactions to Conference, How To Thrive with Local Groups connections Mumbai, India, Parsons, Paris, The Nature of Cities, Bangor, North Wales How To Thrive Approaching Wholeness: Tourist Office As Platform Bangor, North Wales Bioregioning in Practice Barcelona, Service Design Days, Pontio Innovation, Shanghai, Tongji University, Serving The Local Back To the Land 2.0 Design and Sustainability Melbourne, New Economy Milan, Domus Academy Grottole, Italy, Network Australia How To ThriveMadison, USA, Social Food Forum Serving The Local Central Michigan University, How To Thrive Shanghai, Tongji University, Bangor, North Wales, Pontio, Urban-Rural: Design for Relational Design Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Reconnection University, USA Transition Design London, Royal College of Art, Shanghai, IEID Congress, Debating Doughnut Economics Montpellier, France, Innovation for Life Passansdesign, D’une Métropole Totnes, Devon vers une Nioregion Wuhan, China, CECPR Transition Design In An Ecological Civilization, Place Stockholm, KTH, Ecological Marseille, France, Anti-Fashion, Is Our Professor Restoration by Design Weaving The Web Oxford, ORFC2029, Bioregions London, Open CoOps Milan Design Week, Basel, Switzerland, Corriere della Sera Chiang Mai, Thailand, Craft Atelier Luma Book Launch Reveals Conference, Making As Amiens, France, Esad, Connecting Hjulsjo, Sweden, Typography & Ecology Back To The Land 2.0 Devon, UK, Schumacher College, Milan Triennale @999 UK, Earth Talk Wonder Grottole Launch Back To The Land 2.0

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Devon, UK, Schumacher College, San Francisco, Stanford, Hasso UK, Wilderness Festival Ecological Restoration By Design Plattner Institute of Design (D_ Sweden, Xskool School), How To be A Slime Mold Catania, Sicily, Abadir Acxademy, Chile, Santiago, Gov.Lab Relational Design San Francisco, California College of the Arts, Wild work: connecting Vienna, Austria, FluidTime Hjulsjo, Sweden, Xskool, the social and ecological by design GMBH Back To The Land 2.0 Los Angeles, UCLA, Design Media UK, Ilkley Literary Festival Aarhus, Denmark Arts, How To be A Slime Mold Arising Architecture Chicago, American Society of Back To The Land 2.0 Pasadena, USA, Art Center, Landscape Architects (ASLA) Toyota Dialogues Lecture, How Seoul, Korea, Moon Gallery, How Santiago, Chile, Service Design To Thrive In The Next Economy to Thrive Congress The transformational San Diego, USA, Domus Academy potential of service design Seoul, Korea, SSMC. at The New School, How To Smart Mobility at the Service of Riga, RIXC Renewable Futures Thrive In The Next Economy Civic Ecology Congress, Green Hacking Copenhagen, Seoul, Korea, Ilkley Literary Festival Danish Design Centre ‘Ask Me Korea National University Anything’ Brown Bag Lunch Bristol, New Economy Summit Knowledge Ecologies Copenhagen, London, Design Museum, London, MozFest CHORA CONNECTION, Conversation with Chef Curator, Internet of Things Back To the Land 2.0 Justin McGurk London, WorkTech Academy Copenhagen, CIID RISDI (Brown Bag Skype) Building Alternative How To Thrive In The Next CommunitiesBarcelona, FITCat Vienna, FluidTime Symposium Economy Sustainable Tourism Stockholm, Konstfack (Svarta Copenhagen, The Alternative Matera, Italy, How To Thrive Havet) Brussels, Belgium, Ecopolis, Stockholm, Asplund Kraaltheater, How To Thrive In 2016 The Next Economy Bergen, Raff Design Week Amsterdam, Waag Society / Milano, Italy, La Triennale Brussels, Nahmann, ‘Ask Me Pakhuis de Zwijger International Biennial Anything’ Brown Bag Lunch Association Devon, UK, Schumacher College Amsterdam Lab For Change Makers Milano, Italy, Meet the Media Bioregionalism by Design, Short Guru, Design After Design Course Chicago, American Society of Landscape Architects A Design Edinburgh, Small Is Beautiful Falmouth, Falmouth University, Chapel Lecture, How To Thrive In Agenda for Bioregions. York, Festival of Ideas, How To The Next Economy NYC Lecture, SvA PoD students Thrive In The Next Economy Vienna, MAK, Workshop, New York, School of Visual Arts, Devon, UK, Stir To Action How To Thrive In The Next Launch event. Redesigning Back To The Land Economy London, Sustrans. Glasgow, Museums Association Vienna, Earthtalks London, Midtown Big Ideas How To Thrive In The Next Exchange, How To Thrive In The Economy 2014 Next Economy Paris, Superpublic, Dublin, Irish Designers @La27eregion San Francisco, The Interval Association Long Now Foundation, Re-defining Growth Dublin, Trinity College San Francisco, UC Berkeley, 2015 San Francisco, Impact Hub, School of Public Health, Dean’s Plymouth, UK, MediaCity5 Oakland Lecture, From biomedicine to Phnom Penh, Quicksand San Francisco, Curry Stone bioregion: the geographies of a Visioning Seminar Design Prize (jury member) care-based economy

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San Francisco, California College Next Generation Sustainable New Delhi, Unbox Festival of the Arts Tourism New Delhi, Paris, Oui Share Festival Katoomba, Blue Mountains British Council/AHRC Presence and Encounter - How We Cultural Centre, Alive! Fellowships, Jury Chair Meet Is As Important As Why Sydney, ATB, Big Data Brussels, Vrije Universiteit & Amsterdam, Pakhuis, De Université Libre de Bruxelles, Wollongong, What Makes A Energieke Samenleving (The Ways of Knowing Change Lab Successful? Energetic Society). Umea, Sweden, Melbourne, University of Grinda, Sweden, Xskool Sustainable Mobility Melbourne, Alive! England, Shambala Festival Gavle, Sweden, Social-Ecological Hong Kong, Jockey Club Design Systems and What They Need Bucharesti Biennale, Romania, Institute for Social Innovation, Twitter Culture, Art, and Happy Summit Darlana, Sweden, Apprehension Living Systems, Next Economy Nantes, Eco-Cities Summit, Reykjavik, Iceland, Nordic Bioregional Intelligence Stockholm, Sweden, Konstfack, Housing Association Social-Ecological Systems Brussels, Hahmann Lecture Eindhoven, Netherlands, NatLab Trust Is Not An Algorithm Stockholm, Sweden, Beckmans Social-Ecological Systems Sweden, Linnaeus University Copenhagen, Food Systems and Design Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Alive! Olso, AHO, Systems Thinking 2012 Cambridge UK, UX2013, Aylith, Scotland, Cateran Trail Trust Is Not An Algorithm Istanbul, Audi Urban Futures Glasgow, Scotland, Chiasma Award, Jury Chair Amsterdam, Dundee, Scotland City Innovation Week Venice, Spiazzi, Design in Action Social Innovation Emerging Realities, Venice As A Bioregion New Delhi, India, Unbox Festival Oslo, Transformations, Innovation Plenary Lille, La 27e Region, City Eco Labs New Delhi, India, Pearl Academy Paris, AXA Strategy Summit Sweden, IKEA, Sustainability Conference, Buc, France, GE Design Council Old Growth 2013 Knowledge Ecosystems New York, School of Visual Arts, Genk, Belgium, Flanders Design Milan, Salone de Mobile Products of Design Summit, Alive! BeOpen/Interni, The Ecozoic City London, Victoria & Albert Edinburgh, Royal Society Vissach, Austria, ATB, Sustainable Museum, Risk & Resilience Mission Models Money Tourism Eindhoven, World Design Forum, Dundee, DJCAD, Social-Ecological Llubljana, Slovenia, Chair Systems and What They Need Resilience and Living Systems Dublin, IoE, Pivot Workshop Dundee, Fleet Collective, Creative San Francisco, Compostmodern, Industries Resilience and Living Systems Dublin, University College, Thriving In A No-Growth Economy London, Design Museum, San Francisco, SPUR Living Puma Sustainable Design Lecture Systems In The City London, Global Design Forum, Old Growth Mexico City, UNAM San Francisco, HotStudio, Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience and Design Reykjavik, Iceland, Poptech! What They Need The Human Dimension Rovaniemi, Lapland, Mexico City, Frans Mayer The Design of Connections Brazil, Bank Itau, Museum, Informalization And After Design In A Complex World Lancaster, UK, University of Lancaster, Global Futures Brazil, University Belo Seoul, World Design Policy Hozizonte, In The Bubble Forum, Alive! New Deli, AUD, Knowledge Systems and Design Brazil, Fiat, Brisbane, Design Library, Scalar Hierachies of Mobility

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Brazil, Pepsico, In The Bubble Navrachana, Life’s Work Glasgow, Glasgow Development Agency, Speirs Locks Workshop Barcelona, Informal Economy Delhi, UnBox Festival Symposium closing keynote Devon, UK, Dott Cornwall Cornwall, UK, Intersections2 Stockholm, Future Perfect Stockholm, Sweden, Svenskvorm Oslo, National Design Day Festival, talks and workshops [Swedish Design Centre] Angsbacka, Sweden, Lille, La 27e Region, workshop Huntingdon, UK, Secret Garden FuturePerfect Festival Party Festival, Rural Innovation London, Royal Society of Arts, London, Conde Nast Traveller, Design Directions Shanghai, Cumulus Conference Design Awards [Jury] [online lecture + Q&A] Sweden, IKEA, Sustainability Managers Conference, keynote Curitiba, Brazil, Brazil Design Biennial [online lecture + Q&A] New York, School of Visual Arts 2010 Linz, Austria, Ars Electronica Zurich, Zurich Eco Lab Birmingham, UK, Design Research Society [online lecture + live Q&A] Philadelphia, U-Penn, Architecture & Energy Treviso, Italy, Sustainable Design Festival 2009 Älmhult, Sweden, IKEA Executive Graz, Austria, Creative Industries 2011 Workshop Styria Vienna, Victor Papanek Ghent, Belgium, TimeLab London, Royal Society of Arts, Foundation Leicester, UK, Vision 2020 Design Directions, Jury Chair Eindhoven, World Design Forum Raleigh NC, USA, New Contexts Hasselt, Belgium, Design Platform Designing a Caring Society New Practices [online lecture] Euregio Istanbul, AllDesign 2011 Bangalore, India, LENS, Vancouver, Interaction Design Minneapolis, Mayo Clinic The Pretending Phase Is Over Association (IxDA) Transform 2011, 5% Health Oslo, Norway, Architecture Palo Alto, USA, Ideo Reykjavik, Iceland National Triennale Man Made Tomorrow Palo Alto, USA, Stanford Innovation day Luzern, Switzerland, University (Banny Banerjee) Berlin, Haus der Kunst Arts in a Green Economy Los Angeles, USA, [online lecture] Truro, UK, Dott Cornwall The Planning Center Antwerp , Futurproof, Zaragoza, Spain, Proceder London, BBC Radio 4, All Out [online lecture] Productions, The Waste Makers Arte Television, The Landfill New York, Buckminster Fuller Designers Tenerife, Proceder Challenge Awards (Canary Islands Biennial) Bellagio, Italy, Amsterdam, Rockerfeller Foundation, Nice, AgorAzur University of Amsterdam, Museums and Social Change Information Strategy New York, The New School, Washington DC, Into The Open Pittsburgh, Buckminster Fuller Challenge Carnegie Mellon University Paris, ENSAD [jury] Public Lecture Linz, Austria, DOM, New York, School of Visual Arts Rotterdam, de Architect, Creating Desired Futures What Should Design Critics Write Congress Groot About? Helsinki, Pixelache Festival Paris, EDF, Sustainable Design Cardiff, Eco Design Centre, Helsinki, Aalto University, Challenge Awards [Jury] lecture and workshop What Should Aalto University Helsinki, World Design City, Stand For? Ottawa, Canada, Carlton Social Design University Oslo, NorskForm Bilbao, Ethics and Design [online lecture] National Architecture Policy Basque Country Dev Agency, Forum London, Conde Nast Traveller, New Development Landscapes Design Awards, jury Lyon, France, Design Platform Vidodara, India, University of Rhone Alps

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Marseille, LIFT Torino, Italy, Changing The Eindhoven, Design Academy Change lecture and masterclass The Hague, Stroom, Foodprinting The City Venice, Venice Architecture Milan, Art and Industry Biennial (Dutch pavilion) Munich, Go Magic Marketing Day Amsterdam, The Beach ArchiPhoenix (Journal International) Sao Paulo, AHRC Creativity Marseille, European Carton Lisbon, SIX, International Conference Manufacturers Association Summer School on Social Sao Paulo, Creative Industries Innovation Bordeaux, European Forum on Conference, Sao Paulo, Architecture Policy Poznan, Poland, Design Summit Banco Real St Etienne, Biennial Cite du Milan, Design Library Sao Paulo, Doors of Perception/ Design, City Eco Lab IDDS workshop London, Victoria and Albert Delft, The Netherlands, Museum, 2012 Design Imperative Eindhoven, Tectonics, TU Megacities Congress Halifax Nova Scotia, London, Exposure, Sony Aarhus, Denmark, Smart Space Sustainable Regional Conference Development Forum London, Houses of Parliament Tokyo, Musashino University 2006 Dott 07 Presentation 80th Anniversary Helsinki, Creative Communites Sao Paulo, Monumento and Innovation Sao Paulo, Brazil, International 2007 Sunderland, AV Festival Summit on Sustainable Design Ann Arbor, University of New York, Event Design Forum Michigan, Global Place Avignon, France, Forum Newcastle, UK, Dott Explorers d’Avignon panel chair on Amsterdam, Board of Schiphol Club Ecological Metrics Airport, workshop New York, New Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Keynote, Istanbul, TNT, Museum as Hub fashion industry, ethics, Strategy Conference Aspen, Aspen Design Conference and sustainability. www. London, BBC, (chair) srilankadesignfestival.com Design Conference Madrid King, Juan Carlos Marseille, France: New Delhi, University For High Studies Congres des Regions, workshop Doors of Perception 9 Felipe II, (with La 27e Region) Food Systems: The Design Agenda Frankfurt, German Design London, Discovery Museum, Council Great Debate 2008 Lancaster, Rural Design Forum London, Parliament, Dott07 London, Royal Society of Arts, Amsterdam, Virtual Platform Design Directions Jury Milano, Geodesign Conference Düsseldorf, Cognis, London, Design Council, Beijing, Social Innovation Innovation Summit Service Design London, Royal Society of Arts and Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Newcastle UK, Newcastle College, V&A Redevco Annual Meeting Graduation Awards Ceremony Gateshead, Creative Clusters Bath, University of Bath Stanford, USA, Stanford D-School Gothenberg, Boras Summt, Newcastle, UK, Dott 07 Explorers Pasadena, USA, Art Center Design of Prosperity Club Bristol, Offload London, Design Council, Helsinki, Pixelache University Competiveness Summit London, Greening of Design Delft, TU Delft, Why Factory Newcastle, Dott 07, Pecha Kucha Amsterdam, PICNIC [Jury] Orleans, France, Ateliers d’Avril Helsinki, UIAH Gateshead, Dott Festival Creative Communities and Bonn, Germany, Gateshead, Intersections Innovation T-Mobile Innovation Round Table Aberdeen, Value of Creativity

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Leeds, DesignLeeds, Inaugural Amsterdam, Conviviality and Care Learning cities and how to design Event them Montreal, New Design Cities London, Bartlett School of Eindhoven, Eternally Yours, Time Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport, Architecture, Speed in Design Social Services Washington DC : Idea / Rotterdam, National Architecture Breda, European High Speed Business Week Jury Institute, Space, Place and Train Network Quality Time Hybridity Jerusalem, Jerusalem Forum for Birmingham, Content Lab Design Brussels, European Commission, Amsterdam, Project Leaders Beaulieu Seminar Amsterdam, Cross Media Week, Round Table, Chair Picnic Amsterdam, E-Culture Fair Vienna, CHI, Dialogue with Bill (chair) Amsterdam, Virtual Platform, Buxton Communities of Practice St. Petersburg, Cumulus Oslo, Spark! Congress, How To Be A Hub Amsterdam, Dutch Advertising Association, Resource Ecologies Aarhus, School of Architecture, Master Class 2003 Milan, Visions of Possible Worlds 2005 Amsterdam Fashion Institute Bangalore, Design and Local London, Demos, Service Valdambra, Italy, Spark! Knowledge DoorsEast. Innovation (chair) Hong Kong, Design Week Lisbon, Experimenta Aarhus, Aarhus School of Designers In The Age Of Fear Architecture Amsterdam, DasArts, Denmark WorkSpace Design and Social Enterprise Copenhagen, London, Design Museum Danish Design Centre Learning Environments London, Cap Gemini Innovation Rome, The Mortara Seminar, Workshop, Belief in Design Active Welfare Tallinn, Design and Local London, Knowledge Victoria & Albert Museum Design and Development Narva Joesuu, Estonia, Spark! Copenhagen, national Rotterdam, Mobility Biennale broadcasting industry congress London, Design Council, Strategy Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble Review Clay Street Design Seminar Santorini, Greece, Arnhem, Virtual Platform, Tales of The Disappearing Archival Knowledge Design Computer Delft, Technical University Bologna, Where Next in Design Research? Ivan Illich Memorial Seminar Seoul, Korea, Korea National Ivrea, Interaction Design Design Congress, Keynote Institute Ivrea London, Royal Society of Arts, Tokyo, Musashino Art University Design and Development Tokyo, Japan Industrial Design Promotional Organization 2004 Rome, Convivio, Summer School Helsinki, ECSCW Berlin, Transmediale Amsterdam, London, World Creative Forum Creativity and the City Nexo, Spark Glasgow, Lighthouse

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G. ADVISORY BOARDS

Expert Advisor, Hong Kong Design Task Force Coordinating Group Convivio (EU network for social computing) Advisor, High Speed Train Network , The Netherlands Member Virtual Platform, The Netherlands Advisory Board, Pixelache Festival Helsinki UK Parliament, Standing Commission on Design [Member] Advisory Board, Seoul Design City, Korea Advisory Board, Bioregional Learning Centre, South Devon Advisory Board, Cateran’s Common Wealth, Scotland Advisory Board, The Nubian Vault Association, France Advisory Board, Unbox Festival, India Advisory Board, Upstarter, London Advisory Board, Participatory City, London Advisory Board, Beirut Design Festival, Lebanon Advisory Board, Cloudburst Foundation, London Scientific Committee, Interactive Institute, Sweden

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H. AWARDS

Honorary Doctorate, Plymouth University, United Kingdom, 2015 Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, 2014 Best architecture book of the year, deArchitect, Netherlands, 2010 Compasso D’Oro, Italy, I migliori prodotti del design italiano, 2009 Fellow, Musashino Art University 2008 Fellow, The Young Foundation, 2004 Recognition of Service Award, ACM Association for Computing Machinery 2000 Webby Awards, Peoples Voice Award, Art, 1999 Design of the Year, Design Week, for “T-Zone” exhibition, 1998 Fellow, The Young Foundation, London Fellow, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

I. CONTACT JOHN THACKARA

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