Professor Stephen Boyd Davis

@stepbd.bsky.social

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Professor of Design Research

Cartoon. A businessman looks out on a vast burning landscape and tells his colleagues "Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly."
Photo of Donald Trump
Managers sit round a table in a boat, asking why, after so many cuts, the boat is not moving faster. There is one oarsman left.
A chart visualising the differing amounts of money spent on past and current projects requiring investment, comparing the dollars spent on AI to those spent on other projects such as the international space station.
A screenshot of an email message from Amazon, cancelling a customer pre-order, because the book "When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine" by Francesca Albanese is no longer available.
Detail of an oil painting including three figures, with an obscured female face starting to show through.
Leaflet for the launch of the UK NHS, 5 July 1948
A large, wide, gloomy and dramatic painting of the metro underground in Paris
Book cover
Excerpt from The Guardian on US security leak. “In any normal circumstances and in any previous era, Hegseth and Waltz would be expected to resign immediately: Hegseth for sharing what any reasonable observer would regard as details of war plans - and then lying about having done so - and Waltz for his shocking sloppiness around security. But whether or not they will resign or be dismissed by a dysfunctional president, equally hostile to the notion he should be held accountable, is an open question. What should be clear to already shocked allies of the US is that not only is intelligence and other sensitive material not safe in the hands of Trump's senior security officials, but that they cannot be counted on to be truthful individually or as a group.”
A sombre engraving of a lake or estuary.