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The possibility of linking paper to digital information is enhanced by recent developments in printed electronics. In this article we report the design and evaluation of a local newspaper augmented with capacitive touch regions and an embedded Bluetooth chip working with an adjunct device. These allowed the interactive playback of associated audio and the registration of manual voting actions on the web. Design conventions inherited from paper and the web were explored by showing four different versions of an interactive newspaper to 16 community residents. The diverse responses of residents are described, outlining the potential of the approach for local journalism and recommendations for the design of interactive newsprint

Humanity appears to be confronting an increasing number of health, economic, political, environmental and social crises which have been mainly brought about by human action itself. Whilst design has been complicit in such action, the paradigmatic strength of Design Thinking has amplified the agency of designers who now have the opportunity to reorient towards a way of designing which harnesses cultural difference to confront these crises.Drawing on Lefebvre's ideas of 'difference', Escobar's 'autonomous design' and through a process of cultural reflexivity, I propose an approach to design -differential design -as a practical endeavour which sensitively and respectfully draws upon different cultural perspectives and traditions to design for the future. I share empirical examples of three methods -'worldviews', 'generative scribing' and the application of 'rhetoric' that, modestly and pragmatically, may be used to shift the ontological perspectives of designers in the social and political project of designing equitable and empathic futures.

The graduates’ startup formation process represents a possible future role for universities in the form of active-participation, when speaking of the regional development. Tracking the path of entrepreneurial graduates who are moving between home, university, and employment, allows us to identify the specific motives that determine their migration decisions. The choice of location of graduate entrepreneurs is naturally affected by the context of their home region, as the availability of resources leads to a rising entrepreneurial intention. Similarly, the location of the startups flourish in densely populated urban regions, as well as in wealthier locations. At the same time, the vibrancy of the local entrepreneurial ecosystems is enhanced through mutual exchange and collaboration; and the higher the number of startups already present in a region, the higher the probability becomes for interaction and creativity. A leading tendency, not least to be mentioned, is that the preference to start new businesses is connected to highly-skilled creative sectors of the economy.

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