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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have questions. But I also don’t want answers.

Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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

A usb port with the letter usb printed in both orientations. It also says “literature only” next to it

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Gotta love a uni that has its own branded drain covers and bollards

Universidade de Aveiro drain cover with studio properties book on it

Universidade de Aveiro bollard with studio properties book on it

Universidade de Aveiro main concourse with studio properties book in the foreground

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just noticed that, with the publication of the new book, it's currently 30% off if you order direct from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - that's nearly a tenner off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr...

The Studio Properties: A Field Guide to Education book looking lovely with its pink and green organic cover.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Lovely. Had forgotten that Aberdeen has been doing British #Brutalism since 1463.

Local British Brutalist high rise blocks with late 19th century granite tenements in the foreground. All of the forma are GREY - many shades of grey but not in a charity shop book way: proper, dull, waiting for rain to complete the palette grey.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today, we’re at the OU, where it all started and a lot of the book was written. There’s a lot of Studio in this place: [Apprenticeship > 64 ], [Belonging > 189], and [Habits and Rituals > 262] stick out for me. Pre-order Studio Properties on Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr...

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

So this. Definitely proto superhero vibes here and less religious zealotry for me. Ozymandius from watchmen? Or just Mister Nimbus….

A beaux arts stained glass window showing a funky Jesus looking very much like a superhero in mid transformation…

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Where it started; How it's going ... ! tl;dr - a slight improvement on the starting position .... It's definitely weird to look back at how this started and see all the gaps, stutters, and 'conceptual placeholders' ** 😀

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Get this beautiful thing for 10% off (pre-order) on Bloomsbury website: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studio-pr... Perfect summer (/winter) reading for #design #educators and #researchers!

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just in case you're worried, none of these other authors contributed to Studio Properties...

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I learned some weird shit about these things in Oslo. The story we’re told about calm, steady Nordic neighbours is just a story when it comes to cloudberries…

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

4/ We will be doing a series of tours, events, workshops, gigs, birthday parties, etc. If anyone wants a bit of that action, get in touch :) The website for the book is on its way - watch this space! In the meantime, here’s a few more teasers. #studioproperties

The cluster separator pages from Studio Properties.

An example page layout from Studio Properties showing the Learning by Doing property.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

3/ "...deepen your understanding of studio to help you teach, research, or administer design education more effectively and with greater confidence and creativity” 54 'Properties' of studio in total - more than enough to get started with :)

The contents list from the book Studio Properties

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

So the new arrival wanted to go see family before heading back home…

A photograph of the new Studio Properties book in front of the British Library. The sunny day makes the pink blocs in the cover look delicious! Slurp!

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

4 years in the making! Finally here in physical matter: Studio Properties! This one’s off to London for a visit…

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Different brutalist embankment; same principle. Also raise you a ridiculous amount of ducklings

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Audience at today’s Studio Properties storytelling. Really nice just chilling and basking in the late modernist brutalism of the uni of York :)

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So #studioproperties is in York to kick off our UK tour… (…of academic conferences)

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Post a warning (abstract, German version)

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So Game of Two Halves was a pretty good show - nicely set and played by the QMU gang. Tough story in a few ways.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

That time of year when all the afternoon skies look like those from Assassins Creed Rogue (instalment with underrated art direction, imho)

Flat winter grrr cloud, broken by dazzling yellow light that looks almost artificial - something a painter would conjure.

Variated clouds - solids, wisps, bubbles, chunks - all coloured with fading red light fat too early in the day.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Another #dogofhistory - from tapestry in Tarvit House. They must have run out of brown thread though…

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Decoding some whiteboarding. You know how stuff makes sense at the time but in retrospect not that much... #exhibitA

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