Ben Barker
25 September 2010

Designers' Front

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Slightly later than expected, Designers Front is real! We are online at designersfront.com  or designersfront.com/blog   for the blog. That ...
29 July 2010

Now and Then

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Met with Alex yesterday to catch up with what tinker are doing. I made a little document to tell her about  what I'd been upto over the ...
16 July 2010

New Writing Website

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A new website dedicated to mini essay writing that I started over at  bgbarker.com/writings/  The idea is to write a short piece each day co...
11 July 2010

France Pictures.

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I'm in France at the moment, working as a photographer. Here are some pictures with blue sky and not much else. Its sort of like a worki...

onedotzero Document

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A few weeks back I went to see onedotzero. I hadn't see much of them since the year before when I had worked with them. I thought it mig...

Show Bricklane: Design Curious

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We had our final year show in Bricklane a month or so back. I was involved in the design build mostly but overall the whole thing went reall...
29 May 2010

Final Film

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Here is the film for my final project presentation. Its exploring how design can created democratic engagement.
4 May 2010

Liberal Democrats in Blackheath

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I spent the Bank Holiday in Blackheath with the Liberal Democrat bandwagon, speaking to people and trying to hear Nick Clegg talk about poli...
2 May 2010

Plotter in Action

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The plotter that I have been building over the past month or so, partly functioning, I hope to explore other forms of representation using i...
22 April 2010

Ink Dropper

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An automated ink dropper to use in conjunction with the plotter. A solenoid squeezes a drop of ink from the pipet when arduino sends the cu...
15 April 2010

Plan Degree Show.

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Spent yesterday making and measuring for a plan of our degree space. Obviously boring to those who 's exhibition space it isn't, bu...
13 April 2010

X Y Plotter

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A plotter that I have been building that will allow me to create personal political profiles and location based political profiles. Giving p...

Politi-Crisps

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I normally don't put other things up on here, but these crisps that  Rada  got for me are so similair to stuff I was doing a month or tw...

BT Newspaper.

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This is a newspaper that I made with Tinker London using the new, award winning service from Newspaper Club . It was for a workshop we did ...
22 March 2010

Vote with your Feet.

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A model of my "stand". Promoting the idea of having a daily space to promote opinion. People read the paper every morning, but hav...
5 March 2010

Our Berlin Route

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19 February 2010

Voting where you stand.

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Newspaper of Opinion

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A newspaper built from varried sources, to challenge people to question what they form opinion based on, and question the source of their ne...

Site Installation

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Suggestions for a town centre installation that would form a place where people could output opinion and would give the forming of opinion a...
5 February 2010

Tee-Shirt

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Tee-Shirt project is about to go live, take a look at www.outof100.co.uk . Don't tell Sam though because it ain't quite ready. ED...
29 January 2010

Prayer Companion

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Talking to Andy and Nadine about the prayer companion I was interested to learn about how they came to this outcome. By having a specific us...
23 January 2010

Context Report.

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This report is equivalent to a dissertation, however it serves as a framing for the final project that I am working on, rather than a finish...
15 January 2010

The Democratic Household

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Exploring ideas of household moments, to change or enforce that every decision in a household or any evironment is, or can be, a political d...
8 January 2010

Back to it.

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I've been silent on here for a long time. Possibly the longest time since I started this blog nearly two years ago. It just been such a ...
21 December 2009

Barbican Screen Printing

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We ran a workshop at the Barbican as part of their lates programme. The idea was a £3 bazaar, where no item or stall could cost more than th...
6 December 2009

Democracy: Greenwich

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Talking in a new borough, this time Greenwich. Probably a slightly different cross section of society and a larger tourist population.

Personal Pronouns

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The use of personal pronouns in a selection of famous speeches from democratic countries. I was interested in seeing how leaders communicate...

Democracy: Lewisham

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A follow up to last weeks Deptford video, I went talking to people in Lewisham their views on the same two questions: 'What does the wor...
27 November 2009

Democracy Video

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A video on the streets of Deptford (in Lewisham), looking at the public view of democracy.
23 November 2009

Document: Week 5

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This weeks document, containing my fictions and images of my process and outcome. The front cover is intentionally a little austere, to matc...
21 November 2009

Pound Shop Objects.

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A project we did on artifact-based imagined futures this week. Taking no more than 5 things from a pound shop we had to suggest a future usi...
16 November 2009

Four so far.

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These are the four diary (weekly) documents for my final project so far. Each one shows what I did in that particular week, and tries to re...

Week 4, context debate.

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Document from context report. Really enjoyed this as I was free much free-er in making it and didn't worry about having a grid or a spec...
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