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Creative Director, Strategist and Writer focusing on new approaches towards design and cities.
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Private vs Public: Space, Sharing, Trust and Design – A Talk at Social Cities Amsterdam
Tension between the private and public realm was a recurring component of last autumn’s news, as the users of public space and the stewards of those spaces, both private and municipal, clashed during the Occupy protests. The protests themselves bore the marks of tense private vs public realities, given the immense and disproportionate stores of [...]
Urban Hacks Design Competition: €500 for Best Re-Purposed Urban Object or Area
Urban hackers and DIY urban designers gather round: The Urban Guide for Alternate Use is hosting an urban design hacks competition to find the best examples of urban re-use and re-purposed urban design. To encourage and celebrate resourcefulness in the city, EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! Live Art Festival is awarding a prize for the most innovative [...]
Escort Cards and Old Media: Rethinking Perception and Design in the City
The classic newspaper vending boxes have always played role in the city larger than their designated one. At their peak, when each box was filled with that day’s issue, even the most hurried urban citizen running for the bus could get an analogue news feed of current events by scanning the headlines as they ran [...]
Design for the Moon Competition Winners
SHIFTboston has run some fantastic design competitions lately (discloser – I have been on the jury for one of them). Their Moon Capital competition is their latest offering of “What If…” competitions, asking designers and architects to think outside the box planet to imagine future opportunities. As they summarise the competition: When considering the future [...]
Design Intervention in Cambodia: Nothing Design’s Solar Light Trees
Being a huge advocate of the value of DIY design interventions, I also find equal, and at times greater, merits in design projects that harness the ethos of design interventions to offer precise and quick solutions to the needs of people and communities. Nothing Design Group‘s recent installation of a series of superbly designed solar [...]
Design for the Moon
When I was on the jury for the SHIFTboston design competition a few months ago, I was impressed by their desire to go after and embrace Big Ideas for the future of Boston. From contemplating transportation corridors for blimps and corresponding air ship terminals to floating extensions of the city, I came away from the [...]
Boston Design Competition Common Build: Design as Direct Response
While I was working on the Bairro Criativo direct design project in Porto, a design competition from the other side of the pond came onto my radar that definitely deserves some attention. As the competition website says: “The Common Boston Common Build (CBCB) is a design competition that challenges participants to design and implement a [...]
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