In 1975 a small black box appeared. Title: Oblique Strategies. Subtitle: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas. Inside were cards with short, enigmatic sentences. A few words on each. The deck was created…

A sandwich holder, a notebook on wheels and a key with a torch. What do these three objects have in common? Each began with the question “what if…”. And each was made…

Imagine waking up in the year 1726. You are in a cottage, at a table. The woman of the house sets a mug of milk in front of you, sits down opposite…

I thought for a long time about whether to show this. I recently made a small thing that is different from what I usually do. It is a short story, but once…

Some languages name things that others have no words for. Saudade, say the Portuguese, describing a deep, melancholy longing for something or someone lost or far away, or for something that never…

What is innovation? It is more than spectacular inventions! When we think of “innovation”, we often picture revolutionary technologies or brilliant discoveries. We imagine great laboratories, enormous budgets and visionaries who change…

Do you remember classes where people fell asleep with their eyes open? Presentations during which most of the room scrolled on their phones? Workshops from which the most you could take away…

The 2020s. We have tools that generate texts, images and music, and they do it quickly, efficiently, sometimes delightfully. It might seem that humans are losing their monopoly on creating. Meanwhile… the…