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Colin McSwiggen

MA work

MA work

'Delphi' is an oracle. It uses personal data to predict how your life will unfold in advance, helping you to realise goals and discover hidden connections between different areas of your activity. Visitors to the Show can use the Delphi interface to virtually pilot my life, seeing how their own decisions would affect my behaviour in the future.

Colin McSwiggen is a designer, programmer, writer and musician. He holds degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT and has contributed writing on design, music and politics to publications including Literary Review, The Boston Globe, Print, Jacobin and n+1. His work has been exhibited at the Wellcome Trust and the Seoul Design Foundation.

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  • Colin McSwiggen profile image
  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2013

  • 'Delphi' is an oracle. It uses personal data to predict how your life will unfold in advance, helping you to realise goals and discover hidden connections between different areas of your activity. Visitors to the Show can use the Delphi interface to virtually pilot my life, seeing how their own decisions would affect my behaviour in the future.

    Colin McSwiggen is a designer, programmer, writer and musician. He holds degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT and has contributed writing on design, music and politics to publications including Literary Review, The Boston Globe, Print, Jacobin and n+1. His work has been exhibited at the Wellcome Trust and the Seoul Design Foundation.