Publications

Finding the Truth in Systems: In Praise of Design Hacking

A publication commissioned and published by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London, exploring design hacking as resourcefulness – the individual stepping in when the products and systems we are offered fall short. In the text I explore ways in which this is being done as a response to both the limitations of resources and economies in the developing world, and the imbalances which exist in the products, systems and cities of developed regions.

After being featured on Core77, in BusinessWeek, and many other media outlets, you can now get a copy for yourself via the link below.

Available for download here

Urban Play

Published in collaboration with Droog Design, Droog Event 2: Urban Play is the celebration of creativity in the city. Urban Play demonstrates unauthorized interventions in public space by artists and creative minds from all over the world. Urban Play also encourages city dwellers to be creative. Acknowledged international architects and designers, like Stefan Sagmeister (New York), NL Architects (Amsterdam) and Martí Guixé (Barcelona) were invited to create projects along the banks of the IJ-river in Amsterdam, that challenge the citizen.

Featuring an unparalleled collection of urban intervention images from around the world, the book was curated and edited by Scott Burnham, with contributions from Usman Haque, Dan Hill, Richard Reynolds and others.

Visualizing the City

Co-Author; Chapter Author: The VJ of the Everyday: Physically Remixing the Urban Visual

“Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City’s diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.”

“Astonishing in its quality.” – Focus on German Studies Journal

Available for purchase on Amazon.com here.

Note Bene

Article: The Authenticity of Action: Urban Play and The Nameless City

More information on the article here.

CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action

Article: The Call and Response of Street Art and The City

Available online here.

DAMn 20

Article: Urban (re)Design / New Alphabet Street

Azure

Article: The Urban Guerrilla / Santiago Cirugeda

http://azuremagazine.com/magazine/trailer.php?id=1597

DAMn 14

Article: Street Art: The Fourth Wall / Mark Jenkins

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Article: Customised City

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2365&Itemid=64

Will Alsop’s SuperCity

“Will Alsop is one of the most celebrated and controversial architects working in the UK today… This is a definitive guide to Will Alsop’s unique urban vision, as the book weaves a narrative through the rich visual flair of Alsop’s imagination to tell the story of a near future in which we may come to live.”

http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=1463&page=0

Ill Communication II

“Featuring exclusive photographs, sketches and images of the work of ten of the world’s most highly respected street artists including Dave Kinsey (Los Angeles), Swoon (NYC), Dave ‘Skwerm’ Ellis (NYC), Kami (Tokyo), Sasu (Tokyo), Os Gemeos (Sao Paulo), Fakso (Milan), Marok (Berlin), Loomit (Munich), Influenza (Rotterdam). The book also instigates a much-needed dialogue examining post-graffiti’s move from the street to the gallery and its new-found legitimacy as an art-form.”

http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=1574&page=0

Dtroit: The Art, Music And Culture Of The Motor City

“Once a model of the modern industrial city, the collapse of the automobile industry, the 1967 race riots and the ensuring ‘white flight’ from the city to the suburbs gave birth to Detroit, a centre of urban decay and desolation. This full colour exhibition catalogue features the work of ten painters, photographers, filmmakers, graphic designers and musicians who explore the unique urban environment, social history and cultural memory of the city of Detroit.”

http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=1545&page=0