This must be every architect’s nightmare. The dark, shiny, and slippery-when-wet marble floor is an accident waiting to happen, or more likely has already happened, in this hotel foyer in Bilbao.
The solution: cover everything that represents a potential trip or slip hazard with hideous yellow and black warning tape. One redeeming aspect is that the [...]

My current preoccupation with the role of emotions in shaping people’s interactions with technology is in part driven by John McCarthy’s and Peter Wright’s book, Technology As Experience, which draws on John Dewey’s pragmatism and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on aesthetics to highlight the role of emotion in everyday experience. McCarthy’s and Wright’s interests lie mainly [...]

It’s great to see the Design Commission for Wales organising this debate about the future of Cardiff. Cardiff is a good place to live and work but, like everywhere in these uncertain times, it has many problems to address and no clear plans about how to do this yet.

I have been invited to be on [...]