All Projects

Museum of Manky Tea Towels

Marvel at our collection of manky tea towels. We have been saving tea towels across the country from behind radiators, the backs of drawers, corners of charity shops, and boxes...

ICT4S 2026 Zine Library

The ICT4S 2026 Zine Library is an outcome from the ICT4S 2026 zine track led by me. I hosted a range of activities to bring different conversations, topics and ideas...

Research through games design

Research through games design offers our view of games design as a critical design approach for generating new knowledge through the design process. It’s not about producing finished, complete or...

SCREW THAT! A resource scarcity game

Screw That is a game that came together in under an hour in March 2025. A conversation between myself and Ben Kirman about how games can be a fertile medium...

Liminal Excavations

Liminal Excavations (2024) is a zine I co-produced with Aksel Biørn-Hansen for the 2024 ICT4S (ICT for Sustainability) conference. I stumbled into this one when I spotted that Aksel was...

Critical Tea Towels

What do couriers experience when collecting and delivering orders? Are people thinking about the gig worker perspective when designing cities, policies, apps and platforms?

Meal Deal

Now Available on itch.io!!!

Outside the Bag

‘Outside the Bag’ is a booklet of provocative speculative designs, developed from a series of workshops with gig-working delivery couriers in Manchester and York. Each concept is related to specific...

Crank and File!

Crank and File is a collection of critical design research led by Oliver Bates and Ben Kirman.

Techno-disruptive futures for gig economy workforces

Me, Ben Kirman, Christian Remy, and Callum Nash developed a collection of fictional abstracts as short provocations to develop snapshots of how academic writing might consider the gig economy in...

Switch-gig

Switch-Gig was a project that collaborated with gig-workers to explore and understand their current work experiences, the role of technology in this, as well as how future digital technology can...

Freight Traffic Control 2050

FlipGig was a research project that brought together user research, transport research and operational research to consider how gig economy models in last-mile logistics can be made more fair and...

OurTravel

OurTravel was a project using mobile technologies to connect rural communities in the North of England. This particular prototype application was developed as part of a sprint focusing on journey...