This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. Have you heard the one about the Welshman and the German who walked into a bar and changed the course of popular culture? Probably not. It’s…

This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. “We came to a narrow doorway. It would have been easy to miss. There was a folded sign by the door that had the name of…

This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. The writer H G Wells was a regular at the Quo Vadis restaurant from when it opened in 1926 at 27 Dean Street. Since that time…

Louisa Mark • Song: Caught You in a Lie — Louisa Mark This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. Louisa Mark was still just fourteen when she entered 19 Gerrard Street and made…

Jimmy Scott • Song: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Story: Doh Pt 2 — Jimmy Scott & Maximum Breed This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. The post war migration of Commonwealth citizens to the UK…

Herbie Flowers • Walk on the Wild Side — Lou Reed This is part of the Walk on the Wild Side project by Jackie Hopfinger and Mike Press. Read more at the project publication page. Herbie Flowers will have run along St Anne’s Court many times. “In the 1960s we…

Our project — Walk on the Wild Side — aims to reveal the ghosts in Soho’s architecture — a tour of Soho that captures the stories of Soho’s musical past through photography and text. This post describes the project in more detail. And our Medium publication provides access to the…

To get the most out of Global Service Jam and Global GovJam, find your inner drummer. 48 hours to change the world. I’m not sure we changed the world, but we certainly changed something about ourselves. I’ve done ten of them so far, and each time I’ve learned something new — about letting go, about doing…

Remembering Mike Cooley “Mike Cooley may well be the most intelligent Irishman, the most morally engaged scientist and technologist Ireland has sent abroad.” President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, 2018 Without Mike Cooley there would be no human centred design. Sadly, he died in September 2020, but this wonderfully passionate…