Technology changes more than the tools we use. It changes our habits, expectations and relationships with the world around us.
Field Notes explores those changes through everyday experience, connecting how things work with how people live. My aim is to help readers notice and understand changes they can recognise in their own lives.
My perspective brings together studies in mechanical engineering, a master’s in computer graphic design, and more than twenty-five years working across higher education, arts and creative technology. My work has spanned interactive installations, digital storytelling, virtual environments and AI applications. Teaching and curriculum development have shaped how I connect these experiences: questioning assumptions, making complex ideas understandable, and helping people apply what they learn.
Cars provide one starting point. I have spent more than thirty-five years driving petrol vehicles, from utility pickups to sports cars, with a longstanding affection for mechanical cars, particularly those of the 1990s. I have passed driving tests and held licences from six different countries, and driven widely across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Living and commuting in different countries has given me firsthand comparisons of driving cultures, infrastructure and what people expect from their vehicles.
In early 2026, while living and teaching in China, I bought my first EV. I expected a different way of powering a car. What surprised me was how much else changed around it: charging became part of stopping somewhere, software altered the vehicle after purchase, and familiar driving habits began to feel less necessary.
Those experiences prompted wider questions. How does new technology become ordinary? Why does the same system feel convenient in one place and difficult in another? When does experience help us adapt, and when does it hold us back?
Through writing and photography, I follow these questions from ordinary encounters into their wider implications for work, learning, creativity and society. Each note contributes to an ongoing investigation. New experiences, research and readers’ perspectives may deepen an observation or challenge it.
The EV is where these notes began. Their subject is how we learn to live with change.
Opening stories draw on real experiences and conversations. Dialogue and narrative details may be reconstructed or adapted to convey the observation being explored; they are not verbatim records.
The observations, interpretations and opinions are my own. I use AI to help organise ideas, question assumptions and improve clarity, and remain responsible for the published work. I am not sponsored by the companies discussed.