Derek Jones
@plug103.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Design at The Open University. EdSIG Convenor for the Design Research Society. Co-Author of Studio Properties (pub Bloomsbury, Autumn 2025).
Also: recovering architect; nihilist (pragmatic); and defender of the Nation of Hilltown.
Also: recovering architect; nihilist (pragmatic); and defender of the Nation of Hilltown.
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This image will live for ever
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This image will live for ever
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Oh crikey but Malcolm McDowell’s response when presented with a photo of him & William Shatner fighting on-screen in Star Trek Generations is priceless!
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Oh crikey but Malcolm McDowell’s response when presented with a photo of him & William Shatner fighting on-screen in Star Trek Generations is priceless!
Cracking end to the week - check out Philip McKenzie's latest podcast featuring some of the Studio Properties crew (colin gray and James Corazzo) talking about how we constructed ideas of studio in the book.
Episode 240: The Studio & Design Education w/ James Corazzo, Colin M. Gray & Derek Jones
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November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Cracking end to the week - check out Philip McKenzie's latest podcast featuring some of the Studio Properties crew (colin gray and James Corazzo) talking about how we constructed ideas of studio in the book.
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What’s your hometown slop?
Fuck, man, that's a tricky question.
There's a before 5pm option and an after 5pm option and theyre both beige as the lord intended
Fuck, man, that's a tricky question.
There's a before 5pm option and an after 5pm option and theyre both beige as the lord intended
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
What’s your hometown slop?
Fuck, man, that's a tricky question.
There's a before 5pm option and an after 5pm option and theyre both beige as the lord intended
Fuck, man, that's a tricky question.
There's a before 5pm option and an after 5pm option and theyre both beige as the lord intended
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
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Maccius Plautus (250-184 BCE) bitching about the inventor of the sundial feels *extremely* relatable to me in this year 2025
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Maccius Plautus (250-184 BCE) bitching about the inventor of the sundial feels *extremely* relatable to me in this year 2025
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
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TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...
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So that was Wednesday October 29th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.
(Released this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, Watchmen #6, with its iconic cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
(Released this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, Watchmen #6, with its iconic cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
So that was Wednesday October 29th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.
(Released this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, Watchmen #6, with its iconic cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
(Released this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, Watchmen #6, with its iconic cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.)
And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.
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Call for contributions: Annual Symposium 2026 (Submissions by: 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT)
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Call for contributions: Annual Symposium 2026 (Submissions by: 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT)
Association of National Teaching Fellows Symposium 2026 12th-13th May 2026 at the Newcastle University Roll up! Roll up! It’s that time of year where the most exciting call for papers happens…
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October 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Call for contributions: Annual Symposium 2026 (Submissions by: 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT)
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The next Futures of Design Education discussion: Surfacing Institutional Contexts of Design Education.
Andrew Whitcomb Ulises & Navarro Aguiar
Friday 14 November 2025 at 15:00 GMT (NOTE later start time)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surfacing-...
Anyone into Design Ed is welcome to come along!
Andrew Whitcomb Ulises & Navarro Aguiar
Friday 14 November 2025 at 15:00 GMT (NOTE later start time)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surfacing-...
Anyone into Design Ed is welcome to come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The next Futures of Design Education discussion: Surfacing Institutional Contexts of Design Education.
Andrew Whitcomb Ulises & Navarro Aguiar
Friday 14 November 2025 at 15:00 GMT (NOTE later start time)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surfacing-...
Anyone into Design Ed is welcome to come along!
Andrew Whitcomb Ulises & Navarro Aguiar
Friday 14 November 2025 at 15:00 GMT (NOTE later start time)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surfacing-...
Anyone into Design Ed is welcome to come along!
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It's absolutely insane looking at Darwyn Cooke's early work
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It's absolutely insane looking at Darwyn Cooke's early work
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The Open University is seeking a partnership to co.deliver a seminar series on all aspects of Pedagogic Research, Scholarship and Innivation.
Let me know if this appeals.
@Welspraxis.bsky.social
Let me know if this appeals.
@Welspraxis.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Open University is seeking a partnership to co.deliver a seminar series on all aspects of Pedagogic Research, Scholarship and Innivation.
Let me know if this appeals.
@Welspraxis.bsky.social
Let me know if this appeals.
@Welspraxis.bsky.social
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How lovely is this 😍 So proud to work for this amazing institution @openuniversity.bsky.social BBC News - Great-grandmother graduates university at 90 years old
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Londonderry: 90-year-old woman graduates university
90-year-old Maryette was the oldest of more than 300 graduates at the Open University's ceremony in Belfast on Tuesday.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How lovely is this 😍 So proud to work for this amazing institution @openuniversity.bsky.social BBC News - Great-grandmother graduates university at 90 years old
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Colin MacNeil
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Colin MacNeil
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Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
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PLAY SAFE: FRISBEE (1978) BAFTA-nominated all-time classic PIF, and part of the Scarred For Life Hall of Fame. Poor Jimmy famously gets 66,000 volts up his hoop whilst trying to retrieve his frisbee, while sister Amy looks on helplessly. All together now: "JIMMYYYYYYY!"
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
PLAY SAFE: FRISBEE (1978) BAFTA-nominated all-time classic PIF, and part of the Scarred For Life Hall of Fame. Poor Jimmy famously gets 66,000 volts up his hoop whilst trying to retrieve his frisbee, while sister Amy looks on helplessly. All together now: "JIMMYYYYYYY!"
Firstly, great to see a discerning USB port. But also good to see recognition that NO ONE knows why these things have spin 1.5 and never go in first or second time
September 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Firstly, great to see a discerning USB port. But also good to see recognition that NO ONE knows why these things have spin 1.5 and never go in first or second time
Gotta love a uni that has its own branded drain covers and bollards
September 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Gotta love a uni that has its own branded drain covers and bollards
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There is a lot of excellent insights here, but the thing that is newest to me is the idea that generated images reveal the flaws and limits of LLM “thinking” more than text because of differences in people’s visual literacy
meresophistry.substack.com/p/seeking-hu...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/seeking-hu...
Seeking human traces in AI writing
Introduction
meresophistry.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There is a lot of excellent insights here, but the thing that is newest to me is the idea that generated images reveal the flaws and limits of LLM “thinking” more than text because of differences in people’s visual literacy
meresophistry.substack.com/p/seeking-hu...
meresophistry.substack.com/p/seeking-hu...
My talk on seeing the amazing Jennie Lee as the leqd designer of the OU and whay visions matter - youtube.com/live/VTV7kNz... #outalks
STEM Freshers': OpenTalk- Visions Matter
YouTube video by The Open University's Faculty of STEM
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September 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My talk on seeing the amazing Jennie Lee as the leqd designer of the OU and whay visions matter - youtube.com/live/VTV7kNz... #outalks
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Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
The first book launch for Studio Properties is this Friday 12 September at 13:00
Hear us talk about why “There is something very special about studio as a place of practice and learning"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-studio-properties-a-field-guide-to-design-education-tickets-1431651380819
Hear us talk about why “There is something very special about studio as a place of practice and learning"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-studio-properties-a-field-guide-to-design-education-tickets-1431651380819
Book Launch – Studio Properties: A Field Guide to Design Education
The authors of the new book Studio Properties will discuss the ideas behind it and what it says about design education.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The first book launch for Studio Properties is this Friday 12 September at 13:00
Hear us talk about why “There is something very special about studio as a place of practice and learning"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-studio-properties-a-field-guide-to-design-education-tickets-1431651380819
Hear us talk about why “There is something very special about studio as a place of practice and learning"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-studio-properties-a-field-guide-to-design-education-tickets-1431651380819