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...world of stuff - In his book Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (2007), Rich Gold calls the totality of designed things we have around us ‘the plenitude’. He looks around his kitchen and tries to count the number of things there are: I can easily count a thousand, but the actual answer is fractal. Every appliance, every tool, even every food (certainly if you...

...world, and propel you to the cutting edge of where the design discipline is heading. [Described image] Figure 2 Algorithmically generated wallpaper pattern At the start of the course in Section 3: Playing with Code, you will learn some of the basic principles and skills of algorithmic design such as how to draw shapes and control colour by tweaking some code examples. In...

...world around us. [Described image] Figure 2 Close up of someone using touch and gesture to interact with a learning application about white sharks on an iPad Consider how the interactive maps available on smartphones have changed people’s relationship with and experience of their surroundings. Do you remember what it was like trying to find your way around a new city...

...world. For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been working on the recent Rosetta mission here at The Open University. For me and the team, the 12th of November 2014 was an incredible day. It was the day that the Philae Lander finally landed on the comet after its 10-year, 4-billion mile journey around our solar system. On-board, within the Philae Lander, was the Ptolemy...