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About
News, updates and jet-lagged commentary on my work as creative director, writer and consultant specialising in design, urbanism, open source methodologies, and other topics that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Publications
Media Coverage
Design Hacking: Publication Launch
To launch my publication “Finding the Truth in Systems: In Praise of Design Hacking”, London’s Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is hosting an event on 14 October 2009 to open the dialogue on design hacking.
The RSA commissioned me to write the text as an overview and exploration of ways in which individuals [...]
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 [...]
At the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris
A day spent judging the next gen of architectural thinking in Paris.
Mark Jenkins article for DAMn Magazine
DAMn magazine asked me to do a piece on artist Mark Jenkins, and I obliged, as I love Mark’s work and writing about it is always a pleasure. The issue has just hit the stands, so check it out.
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Piece in Icon
Just hitting the stands now is the 50th issue of Icon, for which they asked me to do a piece on the latest wave of urban interventions. The result, “Customising the City”, is a general overview of some of the guerrilla design being done at the moment around the world. Featuring interviews and [...]
The Book. Is done.
Just finished writing my part of the “Visualising the City” book which will come out later this year on Routledge Press. This has been one of those projects that bordered between a labour of love and an overstayed travel companion – mostly written in Amsterdam, edits done in Montréal, photo permissions negotiated while in Beijing, [...]
