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Creative Director, Strategist and Writer focusing on new approaches towards design and cities.
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Boston Lab for Creative Urban Response
This weekend marks the first of many new ventures in my once, and soon to be again, home city of Boston. I have been invited by Boston University to design and host a workshop for BU students which explores creative urban responses to some of the challenges facing the city of Boston. You can find [...]
Reprogramming the City: Article Series for Boston Society of Architects
The Boston Society for Architects recently asked me to write a series of articles for them outlining strategies for “The Resourceful City” by reprogramming existing urban infrastructure to serve new urban functions. The four-part series runs this month, and the first two installments are up now. The overall arc of the four parts is about urban [...]
Hacking the Kinect to Prototype New Connections In Urban Spaces
In September I was invited to participate in “Builders at Play”, a quick-hit session in Amsterdam which functioned as something of a public space hackathon, finding ways in which connected technologies can transform public space. My starting point was something I’ve long been obsessed with – desire paths. Desire paths are the footpaths created by [...]
How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps
Just back from a few days in Berlin, where, among many other things, I had a chance to get together with Aram Bartholl to talk about his SPEED SHOW project, a beautifully simple initiative to turn your local internet cafe into a digital art show. As Aram describes in his SPEED SHOW manifest: “Hit an [...]
In Discussion with Jaime Lerner
For most people with even a passing interest in innovative urban problem-solving, the words Jaime Lerner and Curitiba, Brazil will hold special reverence. Lerner is the urban planner and three-times mayor of Curitiba who transformed the once traffic-congested, economically and environmentally challenged city into one of the world’s most livable urban spaces. This Wednesday at [...]
Economic Crisis = Opportunity via Firefox
As someone who is involved in a number of initiatives to use the economic crisis as a catalyst for creating opportunity, the first thing I tell people is to change perspective on how you view this period of time. Leo Burnett Lisbon has taken things one step further, creating a Firefox plugin which scans the [...]
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 [...]
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