This June is a blast - as ever. It's end of year Show at the RCA: the work the design students is open to the public for another week and is well worth a visit. Jonathan Ive of Apple will be among the visitors on Tuesday during Innovation Day when he is also due to give a talk at the Royal Geographical Society. Among the works on show is a Wind Knitting Machine which is attached to the outside of the RCA building, facing Hyde Park which is producing a woolly sock using the natural elements....see http://blog.mydeco.com/2009/06/26/wind-powered-knitting-machines-solar-flowers-and-chairs-that-turn-into-bedside-tables-it-must-be-the-rca-graduate-show/

and inside  other works include Jose Garcia Huidboro's Branch which you can view occasionally 'live' on the web.....athttp://www.thebigbranch.com/

 The report on Digital Culture in Brasil which I -co-wrote with Felipe Fonseca has finally been launched in Sao Paulo (unfortunately without either myself or Felipe who was much too busy getting married the same week).....but it can be easily read now on the Virtueel Platform site at http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/en/#2646

 We're happy to see it out in the world....and Felipe and Ricardo Ruiz and others have been working on a translation into Portuguese  which is an essential step - and can be viewed at http://desvio.weblab.tk/pub/mapeamentobr

 I'm also just recovering from writing a report for the BBC here in the UK on the 'nature of knowledge, innovation and partnerships' in their recent collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council - more about which later.

We're just about to embark on commissioning some publishing related to Paralelo, the workshop held in Sao Paulo a couple of months ago which looked at how artists, designers, scientists and engineers are working together to address environmental and ecological concerns in Brasil, the Netherlands and the UK.  The ensuing essays will also be available on the Virtueel Platform website where you can also find out more about their recent E-Culture limited edition publication which contains essays on the Network as Laboratory and another which I have written called Tracing the Trace (reflections on doing the digital mapping document in Brasil for the Netherlands Ministry of Culture). The 'deluxe box' publication contain many other interesting pieces written by various national and international commentators on trends in media culture ......more at: http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/en/#2653