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Publications

Published in over sixty international trade, consumer and academic journals, reports, and books, with select examples including:

Articles & Essays

'The Art of Adaption' for Graduate Voice. Published Apr 24th 2020

Contributor to the 'Postcards from Tomorrow' book. Published Mar 1st 2020

'Highlights & Projections' in Koncept Projeler magazine. Published 1st May 2019


'Sensemaking: Systems: North Star', Futures Centre. Published 15th May 2017

'Sensemaking: Evolution', Futures Centre. Published 11th May 2017

'Drawing Inspiration from nature' in The Future is Beautiful book. Published 11th May 2016


'Of Imaginariums and Innovation' in Libertine magazine. Published 12th Nov 2015

'Elemental Cities and Exotic Architectures' in 'The World in 2030' special edition, SGI Quarterly. Published 1st Oct 2015

'Seen Unseen: The Biological and Social Networks of Cities', Part 2, HumanSpace.com. Published 26th Feb 2015

'Seen Unseen: The Biological and Social Networks of Cities', Part 1, Human Spaces.com. Published 20th Feb 2015


'Future Perfect', The Chartered Institute of Housing. cih.org. Published 8th Nov 2013

'Case Study Cities', City City magazine, Issue 2, and Sustain' magazine. Published 1st Jul 2013
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"How will domestic technology change our homes in the next decade?", Wired (UK). Published 3rd Jan 2013
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'We have the Technology', 'The Future: Designed Around You', The Guardian. Published 27th Oct 2012
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'The Future We Choose', contributor to the Think Act Vote book. Published 25th Jul 2012

'Fishing For The New Architectural School' in Sustain' magazine. Published 16th Mar 2012

'Building a Bionic City: Science Fiction or Future Science Fact?' #STU12. Published 16th Feb 2012


'Creating Resilient Cities inStep with the Season', This Big City. Published 31st Oct 2011

'Bionic New World' in Sustain' magazine (cover story). Published 1st Sep 2011

'Building a Bionic City' in Mensa magazine (cover story). Published 28th Jul 2011


'Building the Bionic City: The Ultimate Smart City', URBNFUTR. Published 5th Jul 2011

'Building the Bionic City' in Sustainable Business magazine, 'Sustainable Cities' special edition. Published 11th Feb 2011

'The Bionic City - A Natural Blueprint for Future Cities', This Big City. Published 13th Dec 2010

'Tomorrow's World: Elemental Energy' in Sustained magazine. Published 1st Mar 2009
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'Tomorrow's World: A Journey into Our Sustainable Future' in Sustained. Published 1st Jan 2009
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'Culture Clash: Famous for being famous' in Mensa magazine (cover story). Published 1st Nov 2008


'One Extreme to Another: Understanding Visual Manifestations of Celebrity Culture and the Popular Media' in Medium Magazine. Published 1st Oct 2008

'The Age of Social Enterprise: Together We Stand, Divided We Fall' in Sustained magazine. Published 31st Jul 2008

'The Green Goddess Shopping Check List' in Qube (the member's magazine of Quintessentially). Published 9th Jan 2008

'Embracing Eco & Ethical Fashions' in Style is So You magazine. Published 1st Nov 2007

'Easy Come, Easy Go: The Beginning of The End of Manufactured Celebrity' in Medium Magazine. Published 1st Oct 2007

'Changing Face of Fashion: The Case For a More Ethical Approach' in Mensa magazine (cover story). Published 1st Feb 2007

'Live and Let Die: The reality of 007's lifestyle' in Mensa magazine (cover story). Published 1st Sep 2005

'Renaissance Women' in The Season, Volume 1, Issue 1. Published July 2003

Papers, Reports & Chapters

'Insight Report 2030: Invisible Ocean Pollutants from our Roads', futures insight report [co-lead author]. In Pre-print Feb 2021

'Tech to the Future: From the Millennium to 2020 and Beyond'
 report [lead contributor]. Published 17th Dec 2019

'Mind the Gap: Philosophical and Psychological Dichotomies' paper in Journal of BioUrbanism, p.165 - 185. Published 15th Nov 2017

'The Ecologically Smart City', in Festival of the Future City book, p. 114 - 121. Published 1st Jun 2016

'The Dawn of the Citizen Scientist', in Inventing the Future white paper, p. 16 - 17. Published 1st July 2014

​'Biomimetics: Learning from Life', Chapter 9 in 
Global Science Innovation Handbook, p.121- 139, McGraw-Hill. Published 31st Jan 2014


Thesis & Codes

'Panarchic Codex' Tri-Part speculative WUI Building Codes. Published  Sept 2018

'Panarchistic Architecture: Building Wildland Urban-Interface Resilience to Wildfire through Design Thinking, Practice and Building Codes modelled on Ecological Systems Theory', PhD thesis. Published Sept 2018

Curation & Editorial


Contributing Editor (Cities), Unity magazine, 2015 - 2016

Editorial Board, City City magazine, 2012 - 2013

Editorial Board, Sustain' magazine, 2011 - 2013

Contributing Editor (Futures), Sustained magazine, 2008 - 2009

Contributing Editor (Fashion), Hot magazine, 2005

Co-Editor, R Magazine, 2003 - 2004

Editor, The Definitive Event Guide, 2003

Editor, London Launch
 magazine, 2003
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Bionic City, 'Biomimetics, Biotechnology & Biology for the Built Environment', over 65,000 followers (2013 -present)*
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Bio-, 'Exploring the Wonders of the Natural World', over 55,000 followers (2013 - present)**

Future-tense, 'Exploring the Now, Near and Far Future', over 50,000 followers (2013 - present)

Dojo, 'Martial Arts meets Eastern Philosophy', over 45,000 followers (2014 - present)

Style with Substance, 'Science and Technology meet the Arts', over 45,000 followers (2014 - present)
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*Listed in 'Tech & Science' in the Flipboard app, Bionic City magazine was one of just 75 titles selected from over 5 million to feature in Flipboard's Best of #MagsWeLove 2013, 2014 and 2015 collections. One of the Top 40 Most Read magazines on the platform in 2013 and 2014, its contents have been shared over 3 million times.

**Bio- magazine was featured in Flipboard.com's 'Tech & Science' highlights.


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Research Gate
Academia
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Future in Flash
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