links for 2010-03-31

“The chal­lenge for us here in Europe as design­ers in the cul­tur­al as well as the tech­no­log­i­cal sphere, is to design things that sup­port the rich vari­a­tion of Euro­pean cul­tures rather than impos­ing a glob­al tech­no-cul­ture, the same from Seoul to San Fran­cis­co to Sien­na.” A talk by Gillian Cramp­ton Smith on design research that you real­ly must read.