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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 [...]
Urban Hacks and Re-Use for 2010: The Urban Guide for Alternate Use
I was recently asked by Die Fabrikanten in Linz, Austria for ideas for their upcoming Exchange Radical Moments Europe-Wide Festival. The result is The Urban Guide for Alternate Use – an open source city-specific ‘field guide’ for alternate uses for existing urban infrastructure. It was a wide brief, but as I’m far more interested in [...]
Latest book launches in Italy
I’m pleased to share the news that the latest book to feature my work and approach towards urban creativity has just been launched in Italy. The book, Disegnare le città (Drawing cities), is an overview of a more organic and people-driven approach to design, creativity and the city rather than the top-down model that has [...]
Urban Play Amsterdam comes together
Apologies for the lack of recent posts, but the final touches are being put on Urban Play, so that’s where my time is going at the moment. I really couldn’t be more thrilled with what is taking place with the project right now. Case-in-point: “Fish in the Sky” by Nothing Design Group from Korea, above, [...]
At the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris
A day spent judging the next gen of architectural thinking in Paris.
Report Out: Urban Intervention as Design Masterclass
Give 31 exceptionally talented design students a week to play with the city and design, and see what it gets you?
Guest Lecturer @ Design International
As part of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)’s Design International week I was asked to teach a design masterclass on urban intervention as design process.
Preview of Urban Play: The Exhibition
With Milan just around the corner, here’s a preview of the text going out to publicise Urban Play: The Exhibition
Getting Our Urban Play On
Some of the most most talented designers in the world descend on Amsterdam for the start of Droog Design Urban Play.
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 [...]
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