Projects

We launched in March 2012 with CarbonMap.org, a website using a newly developed animated cartogram tool to explore responsibility for climate change. It was created as a submission for the World Bank’s Apps for Climate competition but was also featured prominently by the Guardian.

Since then we’ve been developing other projects in association with a number of partners and clients. If you’re interested in working with us, get in touch.

People

Duncan Clark has worked in journalism, books and campaigning as a writer, editor and strategist. He’s a consultant environment editor at the Guardian and previously worked at Profile Books, 10:10, BBC Worldwide and elsewhere.

Robin Houston is a web developer and mathematician. He works as a developer at MySociety, before which he was based at the Sanger Institute, 10:10 and the Guardian, where he built the original website. Robin has a PhD in category theory.

FAQ

• Why ‘Kiln’?

Information is a bit like clay: it exists in abundance but only becomes interesting when it finds the right form. A kiln is a furnace where that form – a combination of materials, craft and design – is turned into something useful or beautiful.

• So Kiln doesn’t stand for anything?

Not really. We could say ‘Knowledge, Ideas, Learning, News’, but that would be a backronym.

• Are you Italian?

No. We chose the .it domain because kiln is also a verb (‘to kiln it’) and also because it’s a homophone for ‘killin’ it’ (which, among other things, can mean ‘to be doing something very good’).

Contact

Get in touch by emailing hello@kiln.it. You can also find us on Twitter.