From the classic Chopper bike and the Marble Run toy to the quirky three-wheel sports car called the Bond Bug, there’s something playful about all Tom Karen’s work as an industrial designer. For 37 years, he headed up Ogle Design, steering it to become the country’s leading independent design house for transport and products. Now…
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe: writer for The Sick of the Fringe project 2016 funded by the Wellcome Trust, and a chance to meet Tez Ilyas and Sofie Hagen
I love, love, love, love, love the Edinburgh Fringe and had the opportunity to be there in 2016 as a writer for a Wellcome Trust-funded project, The Sick of the Fringe. The idea was to choose performances and then write about them, not as a reviewer, but to diagnose themes of health, medicine, disability and…
Arabick Roots: the shared eastern and western origins of today’s hi-tech world explored in an original exhibition at the Royal Society and in Doha
How did the golden age of eastern science impact on the scholars of the Enlightenment in the west? When Syrian-born physicist Dr Rim Turkmani turned to the archives of the Royal Society in London to find out, she discovered a wealth of east-west links which she explored in an exhibition, Arabick Roots, a 1001 Inventions…