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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 [...]
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 [...]
Roadsworth Book Released
The pleasure of being asked by Roadsworth to write the introduction to the first book chronicling his work was only outdone by seeing the book itself when it arrived in the mail recently. I’ve followed Roadsworth’s work with great interest and appreciation over the years. His sense of play and imagination in his reworking of [...]
The Authenticity of Action: Latest Article in Note Bene (Italy)
The newly launched Italian magazine Note Bene asked me to do a piece for their introductory issue, tantalisingly devoted to (paraphrasing from the original Italian intro text) “the authenticity and creativity of action”. Break that phrase down more and you have a real jewel: “the authenticity of action”. As a motivating concept for almost any [...]
Site-Specific Urban Design: The Call and Response of Street Art and the City
I think we’re missing the boat on street-level design R&D. That’s pretty much the summary of my latest essay and photo gallery exploring the visual and physical interplay which is taking place between urban intervention, street art and the urban landscape which was just published in the journal CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. When [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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