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Ben Matthews

@benjayem

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 Brisbane, Queensland
Joined August 2012
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design scholars are becoming aware that they are the oppressed in the publishing business designresearchsociety.org/ar…
The Future of Design Studies: Update

The Future of Design Studies: Update

The future of Design Studies: Update.

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DRS@thisisDRS12 Jul 2023
We are extremely sad to announce that on the 10th July, Peter Lloyd, the Editor-in-Chief of Design Studies, together with the entire Editorial Board and other Editors, resigned their positions on the journal. Read more from the DRS Executive Board: designresearchsociety.org/ar…
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WHAT IF: Flood victims were offered tiny homes in lieu of house insurers renewing policies? #AlternativeFutures #DesignThinking #SpeculativeNews #WickedProblems #DesignFiction #Futures #Floods #Disaster #Insurance #TinyHomes #ClimateChange wicked-thinking.ghost.io/ins…
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When Wordle becomes consonant Bingo: Wordle 234 5/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 229 2/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 this won’t happen again for a while.
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Like Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, The Wiggles cover of Tame Impala’s “Elephant” shall henceforth be the definitive version, “Fruit Salad” mashup inclusive.
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For my non-Aussie friends, our national indie radio station Triple j just released their ‘Hottest 100’ songs of 2021, which is like a blind, democratic version of Eurovision minus the international politics. 😉The Wiggles, an old Aussie children’s band, just took out the #1 spot.
It’s a good thing there is only one of these a day. Wordle 205 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Will have to track this one down.
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“There is a difference between wanting to repair the world such that one’s current desires can flourish, and remaining open to the possibility that making a different world might mean that one’s current desires might have no place.” Patricia Stuelke
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The consolations of working late this time of year. The #uqbloom festival is underway.
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This is a still from my first ever professionally-recorded video lecture on human-centeredness in data analysis. And the early reviews are in! This from my 15yo daughter: “Don’t worry dad, when I’m on video I look like a vampire, too.”
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Head of school opportunity at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at UQ search.careers.uq.edu.au/caw… #academicjobs
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My smart watch has decided to embrace our post-truth, fake news world. Or it’s experimenting with sarcasm as a persuasive design strategy. Not sure which one is more unsettling.
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#acmDIS2021 is happening! but as an online conference: The official CFP is still being drafted by the technical program chairs, but expect at least Papers, Pictorials and DC to happen. We will have a website #verysoon but consider the twitter here the official word until then <3
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Friendly local hanging in our mango tree out front. instagram.com/p/CGmQV4UpZyy/…
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Celebrating Assoc Prof Pauline Pounds, winner of the 2020 Batterham Medal for her groundbreaking contributions to designing unmanned aerial vehicles for package delivery & search-and-rescue. #ATSEawards @UQ_EAIT Thanks to our sponsors @CSIRO @ANSTO @IndustryGovAu @CicadaInnov
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