It’s a bit of a special week this week for the food team as our first intervention tests have gone …
Can Consumer Product Design Really Drive Systemic Social Change?
A recent Forbes piece by Ashoka’s Michael Zakaras takes product design to task as a source of transformational social change. To provide an antidote to the fashionable fascination with “things” as the answer to all our social ills, the article uses examples like Toms Shoes‘ one-for-one model and the distribution of mosquito nets as evidence that products normally fail to engage with the roots of complex social problems.
We’re nominated for an Urban Food Award
We’re excited to tell you that our project that puts healthy fast food outlets in areas dominated by unhealthy options, …
Street Food for social change: why gourmet hipsters are just part of the story
If you walk a few hundred metres west from Old Street roundabout, the new hub of London’s tech start up …
Overweight by default
We’ve spent a good chunk of the last year looking at how our approach to behaviour change can play a …