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Creative Director, Strategist and Writer focusing on new approaches towards design and cities.
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Latest City As Platform Project Launches in Porto; How Creative Can Portugal Be?
“Bairro Criativo” launched in Porto, Portugal on 24 May, the latest of my City As Platform projects which approach the urban landscape as a creative platform. I’m pleased to say that Porto has responded in style. The agency ADDICT, lead by creative industries maestro Michael DaCosta Babb, asked me to create and direct a project [...]
Web Browser as Creative Catalyst: Chrome Experiments
Google Creative Labs’ Creative Director Ji Lee emailed me the other day to tell me about Chrome Experiments, a new product Google Creative Labs has just launched. Now that I’ve had time to play with the site and many of the experiments, I have to report out that not only is it all good, but [...]
Take 1 abandoned housing estate, add 90,000 litres of copper sulfate…
Creative re-use of existing urban areas is something of an obsession for me – I’m even moderating a dinner on the topic in a couple weeks. While my radar is tuned mostly to re-use done outside of formal cultural structures, Artangel is one organisation that always blows me away with their installations, and their latest [...]
World Urban Development Congress
I’m pleased to share the news that I have been invited to deliver a keynote address at the World Urban Development Congress in Riga, Latvia this October. I’ll be addressing the congress on the development of creative urban environments – should be an interesting session, considering that my definition of what makes an urban environment [...]
At the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris
A day spent judging the next gen of architectural thinking in Paris.
The National Theatre: then and now
The other night I was walking across Waterloo Bridge in London and saw the National Theatre’s coloured lights. It reminded me of the installation/projection I did there in 2000, when I projected Derek Jarman’s film “Blue” onto the National Theatre and set up a radio broadcast blanketing South Bank with the audio for anyone to [...]
Open It Up
It is amazing that while entire areas of contemporary culture are opening themselves up to open source creativity, user-led innovation, the wisdom of crowds – whichever term you prefer – the gallery world has been holding pretty damn tight to the top-down model of access to and participation in the creative process. So it’s refreshing [...]
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