Philip Maughan is a writer, researcher and strategist based in London. His work on science and technology, food, climate change, AI and design can be found at BBC Future, Noema, The Guardian, Tank, Modem and elsewhere. He created the design-research platforms Black Almanac (with Andrea Provenzano and Infinity Mirror (Antikythera/MIT Press), and has worked with institutions such as Schiphol Airport, MoMA NYC, Studio FV (Prada, Stone Island), OK-RM, 032c and Strelka Institute. See below for selected links or click here to get in touch.

Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell (Noema) • A Proof-of-Personhood Protocol Housed in a Signet Ring (Modem) • The Left–Right Twist That Could Rewrite Tech (Freethink) • How Airplanes Are Responding to Rising Turbulence (BBC Future) • What It’s Like to Bring AI into a Human, Creative Practice (The GOODstack) • Goldwin 0 Journeys into Art, Science and Nature with OK-RM (Squad Labs) • A Theory of Evil Design (Tank Magazine) • Everything Connects at the Eames Office (Greatest Magazine) • Making “Food Out of Thin Air” (Noema) • Coded Gestures (Modem) • The Infinite Surround (Modem) • The Rediscovery of Circadian Rhythms (Noema) • How AI’s Listening Kitchen Can Redefine the Art of Cooking (The Guardian) • Searching Earth for Alien Worlds (Noema) • Autogenesis (Highsnobiety) • How an Asteroid Would Transform the Food We Eat (BBC Future) • Against Localism in Food (Noema) • Archiving Civilisation (Kaleidoscope) • Isabelle Boemeke: The Nuclear Influencer (Highsnobiety) • Incel Protocols (Mal Journal) • The Heron (Heavy Traffic) • John Berger: I Think the Dead Are with Us (New Statesman)