Paul Miller

This is roughly what I said in a talk I gave at the Designers Accord London Town Hall meeting at the Design Council on 19th January 2012.   I don’t know about you but when I read, watch or listen to the news at the moment I get pretty depressed. The Today Programme seems to [...]

I still don’t really know why the Social Innovation Camp format works, but it does. Last weekend we had another great event up in Edinburgh with six teams of fantastic people all trying to take back-of-the-envelope ideas through to working prototypes that could become new social ventures. The things that struck me this time about [...]

If you’d like to come along to Social Innovation Camp this weekend in Edinburgh, here are the ideas that we’ll be working on: 1.) invisibleRamps When a building isn’t accessible it’s pretty easy to see what the problem is, even if you’re able-bodied: no lifts, no ramps for wheelchairs and lots of stairs. But there [...]

  It’s the final few days to get your idea in for Social Innovation Camp. The Camp itself will be 17-19th June in Edinburgh. The last time we were up in Scotland we found the team behind MyPolice which has gone on to be a great example of how smart people can use digital tools [...]

During a recent trip to New York and San Francisco, a few people said they thought that the movie The Social Network was having an effect on the number of people who wanted to start a startup. Now, on the face of it, The Social Network isn’t a positive film. It’s mainly set in the [...]