John Thackara

As a young boy in 1960s Newcastle, it was always a drama in my house when Proctor & Gamble’s advertising whiz kids came to dinner.

(I changed the title of this post on 15 August) As a punishing heatwave headed for a fourth week here in France, a familiar cry went up from the country’s exhausted citizens: “The government must do something”.

Unusual but real-world jobs are now emerging in rural contexts: jobs in food and water systems; building re-use; next-generation hospitality; and so on. thackara.com/bioregioning-sounds-nice-but-i-need-a-job Earlier this year, I returned to that theme in…

The idea of “designing for life” sounds meaningful – but what do those words mean in practice?

People come to reflect on what designing for life might mean for them.