John Thackara Email & Phone Number

Ganges, Occitanie, FR

Shanghai City, China

My research agenda at Tongji University spans three subject areas: Care, Value, Place; Urban-Rural Reconnection; and Knowledge Ecologies & AI thackara.com/research-statement-tongji-uni

Ganges, Occitanie, France

I was made a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art in 2011. My connection with the RCA began in 1998-2000 when, as Director of Research, I developed programme of real-world innovation projects; these helped the College extend its global leadership role as an outward-facing centre of innovation. Since then I helped start new design innovation institutes.

Doors of Perception (Doors) began life in 1993 as an international design conference in Amsterdam. Doors brought together grassroots innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and designers to imagine alternative futures - sustainable ones - and take design steps to realize them. In 2000, Doors of Perception became an independent company and we moved the.

St Etienne, France

As Commissioner of France's main design biennial I produced an event called "City Eco Lab" in St Etienne. Conceived as a 'nomadic market of projects, City Eco Lab made projects visible to the wider populace and started people talking about ways they might be improved or about doing similar projects themselves. 46 live projects from the St Etienne region.

North East England

Dott 07 was a two year programme of sustainability projects commissioned by the UK Design Council and the region's economic development agency, One North East. Dott 07 culminated in a two week festival at the heart of the cultural centre on the banks of the River Tyne in North East England; itr was visited by 30,000 people. Dott was inspired by two.

Ivrea, Italy

I was on the start-up Steering Committee (chaired by Franco Debenedetti) of this new postgraduate institute founded by Telecom Italia. Its founding director was Gillian Crampton Smith. My specific tasks were to help develop and articulate the institute’s basic concept and organisational form; define and articulate the roles of, and benefits to, industry.

Hong Kong

I was the expert advisor to the Hong Kong Design Task Force (chair: Victor Lo) which developed a new innovation and research policy for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The task force plotted the best way for Hong Kong and China to move up the value chain from a product-based to a service-and-flow based economy. Following the report, Hong Kong.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

The Institute, which was founded by the Dutch government and the city of Amsterdam in 1993, was a think-and-do tank whose mission was to increase the economic and social contribution of design. The Institute's projects brought together a variety of design specialists, users, and experts in many other disciplines. Doors of Perception, the institute's.

London And Tokyo

Highlights included an International symposium on science, innovation and design for the Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo, 1987); exhibitions for Axis Gallery (Tokyo); a conference on Interactivity and Environments for the European Commission (Paris, 1989); An exhibition called Image and Object at the Centre Pompidou (Paris 1989); Mirror of Medicine, an exhibition for.

London, United Kingdom

I worked for two years as a freelance journalist, being inter alia Modern Culture Editor, Harpers & Queen; Design Correspondent for The Guardian; Design Correspondent for The Spectator; and a contributor to the The Late Show (BBC).

I returned from Australia and Asia to become editor of the UK Design Council's monthly flagship publication.

Sydney, Australia

Baed in Sydney, I commissioned architecture, design and agriculture titles for international professional and education markets.

London, United Kingdom

Commissioning editor of architecture and design books

London, United Kingdom

Drove a Routemaster on route 73