I’ve just been contacted by a German student about my chaotic desk. Ania asked me some questions about how I work in this happy chaos, how I find objects, do I lose items, and anything that might help. I was able to answer these promptly, and Ania reply with thanks and promises to send me the results of her design diploma.

Now roll back a couple of years and this would not have been possible. Ania’s research would have been forcibly limited to her fellow students, staff, family and friends. That’s not a good control group as they are likely to have similar demographics and behaviours.

Using Flickr was a very smart way of  crossing those boundaries and getting a much wider selection.

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