-
LIKE YOU READ ABOUT.
Social entrepreneur, creative strategist/director and writer dedicated to reprogramming our relationships with design and the city.
Created Urban Play for Droog Design, director of Trust Design at Netherlands Institute for Design, Guest Editor for Volume, and general urban creative operative.
My CV (as told by Google Maps)
View Scott Burnham's CV: Geographic Version in a larger mapFeatured Project
Biography
Hi, I’m Scott. I am a social entrepreneur, creative strategist, creative director and writer dedicated to reprogramming our relationships with design and the city, working with a number of cities, institutions and publications worldwide.
I created and directed Urban Play for Droog Design and the city of Amsterdam to launch a new generation of objects and areas for the city. Working with Stefan Sagmeister, Marti Guixe, NL Architects and others a series of objects and areas were created as public catalysts for further design interventions. Recently I created the Bairro Criativo project for Porto, Portugal to open idea generation, grass-roots innovation and creative processes to wider audiences in the city and create direct design responses to they city’s needs.
When I’m not working on creative strategies for cities, I go after big ideas and issues facing design and cities. In this realm I am currently directing the Trust Design project for Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design in Amsterdam. Trust Design explores the relationship between trust and design in all areas of design, from our products to our shared urban spaces. As part of Trust Design, I am the Editor for a special 4-issue publication series in collaboration with Volume Magazine, and guest lecturer at Design Academy Eindhoven.
In addition to contributing to a number of publications, I am the author of “Finding the Truth in Systems: In Praise of Design Hacking”, an exploration of how hacking and open approaches are transforming design and cities everywhere. My speaking credits include addressing the International Conference on European Policy, the World Urban Development Congress, and guest lecturing at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design, London, University of Quebec, Montreal, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many others.
In years past I was Creative Director for the UK’s Urbis Centre for Urban Culture from 2003-2006, where I directed numerous large-scale urban projects including Will Alsop’s SuperCity to rethink the future of post-industrial cities, ‘Urban Oasis’ with Berlin’s Office for Subversive Architecture, ‘At Home’ with Peter Saville, and “The China Show”, an overview of contemporary Chinese design and architecture.
Follow @scottburnham
Search the Archives
Categories
Recent Posts
- Boston Lab for Creative Urban Response
- Reprogramming the City: Article Series for Boston Society of Architects
- Hacking the Kinect to Prototype New Connections In Urban Spaces
- Roadsworth Book Released
- Talking About Urban Futures and the Internet of Things at PICNIC, Amsterdam