Inspired by two of my favourite thinkers, artist Yoko Ono and physicist Richard Feynman, this article is an experiment in physics and event scores. It quotes Feynman’s enchanting stories about a teeming nano-world for a 1983 BBC interview Physics is fun to imagine, recontextualising some of his thoughts as proposal pieces in the spirit of Grapefruit, an artist’s book by Ono.

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Anna Mikkola, a Berlin designer and friend with a particular interest in books and exhibitions, approached Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela of OK Do with an idea of doing a project on the life of publications. As it happened, OK Do was just planning Science Poems, their first book and exhibition, which felt like a natural point of departure for common ventures. So, the three ended up in a discussion about the both. …(more)

OK Do met with chef Jouni Toivanen from the Helsinki-based Michelin star restaurant Luomo for a cooking lesson in molecular gastronomy. We prepared green tea ice cream. …(more)

Semi-professional design series explores the field of DIY from the perspective of digital tools and resources used for prototyping things that could only be imagined before. Evolving around technologies and platforms, and within multidisciplinary communities interacting with systems and each other, semi-professional design thinking often manifests as playful objects presenting new viewpoints to the world. The third part of the series looks at “useless things, designed with tools that are typically used for scientific purposes,” as Jari Suominen puts it. …(more)

A year has passed since the idea of OK Do came into being. Defying what John Thackara told us about acting instead of thinking too much about one’s role, we feel it’s time to reflect what OK Do is and what we want it to become. However, we are convinced that experimentation is the right way to find out the true spirit of OK Do. The following issues haunt us at the moment. …(more)

Semi-professional design series presents the ancient phenomenon of DIY from a new perspective through digital devices and communication technologies, exploring new social contexts and technical means of making things. The second part of the series maps out semi-professional design practices that have evolved around technologies and platforms, and within communities interacting with systems and each other. …(more)

See, think, do is a series of texts by Tuomas Toivonen (NOW for Architecture and Urbanism) attempting to articulate the relevant elements in the work of an architect today. The part three of the series sets out to ask how creativity should be harnessed for a better reality. …(more)

All people design and think about the future. Some people materialise their ideas through sketching, crafting or customising. More and more people hack their electronics, make things on personal fabrication platforms and share their innovations online. Semi-professional design series aspires to understand the possibilities in this kind of non-institutional design, aiming at material artifacts and operating with digital tools. It is an exploration in free form and multidisciplinary approaches to artifacts straddling the categories of work and leisure, and of production and consumption. …(more)

1. Get an idea

The idea of a design think tank sprang from our need to create a home for uncompromised thoughts, writing and doing. We wanted to create our own platform for collaboration and projects. The idea of OK Do was first discussed during a loud gig. We could hardly hear each other, but a couple of messy sentences were enough to deliver a common understanding. The idea of OK Do is great at least in a sense that it’s something that we believe in and really wanted to do. …(more)