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Everyday Forensics
The tools that enable us capture, review, edit and share, and the many different ways this moves towards real time, predictive. The implied authenticity of showing what was edited in the context in...
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Uncondusive Spaces
Ad-hoc interviews in a bowling alley seemed like a good idea at the time – after all the same location had worked well on a research road trip through the US. In Tupelo on the eve of Elvis’s birthday...
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Missing, A Good Thing I
Our arrival in Tehran is certainly auspicious – 3 camera crews are here to greet the plane’s arrival. The focus of their attention? A trophy wielding sportman returning home to the greetings of fans...
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Missing, A Good Thing II
A late walk through a rather sizeable local park in an effort to stretch my legs. By 10:30pm the remaining visitors are families checking out the animal enclosures, couples and groups of male youths....
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Literal Translation, In the Name of God
Only a few days of the study left and a still a need to cover a lot a ground in different parts of the city – in Tehran if you want to beat the traffic you either take a motorbike or the metro and...
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Wayfinding Redundancy I
An arrow pointing the way to Mecca on the ceiling of a Tehran hotel room – a simple enough task for a GPS enabled mobile device. Given the relative predictability of everyday life, and the multitude...
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Today’s Office
A group interview in an upscale north Tehran restaurant. Behind me to my left a dozen or so ladies dressed conservatively in black from the neck down but more like a bouquet heading up – fancy...
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Moral Guardians
As our collective ability to watch and monitor becomes ever more sophisticated how does this change the relationship between individuals, governments and organisations? In our future perfect your...
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Trust in What You Give
At any time the average urban Iranian is within a few meters of a collection box like the one pictured – the larger model can be found at regular intervals on most pavements and its smaller cousin is...
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Practices Around Privacy
Finding the right balance between working for and being rewarded by a large corporation and respectfully engaging / disengaging with people and communities is a challenging one – whether it’s because...
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Tehran sk8 RIP
Unused swimming pool in a Tehran housing estate converted into a skate park – to my knowledge the only skate venue in Iran. Whilst the brick & concrete ramp construction is admirable the current...
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Speed Dating
Iran is a society where an unmarried man and woman alone in a car together can trigger a ticking off, fine or worse if stopped by the Basij – a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. As well...
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Sk8 Tehran
Hacked together skate park on the edge of Tehran. My guide for the day anonymised.
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Separation of Church, State
Religious slogan adorns the wall of an Iranian sports hall – a common enough sight in a city adorned with revolutionary murals. Thoughts for today: the cultural differences in separation between...
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Four Person Taxi Meter
When you run a shared taxi service and customers step into and out of your ride at different points of the journey – how to you keep track of what to charge each person? This four person taxi meter...
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Demarking Segregation I
Male only queue for a Tehran bus – the female only queue was for the back half of the bus, and yes with equal number of seats in both halves. At what part of the (service) process to...
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Wayfinding Redundancy II
The reader’s relative position in the city highlighted on the sign – in the photo the small red triangle is overlaid on a Tehran City logo. Given that a mountain range in the North of the city is a...
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Home and Castles II
Been thinking a lot about social aspects of security systems recently, and cultures and contexts where its common to have a nightwatchman. Your neighbourhood has a nightwatchman right? The patrol...
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