Speaking
I speak frequently about innovation at the edges of design and urban culture and strategies for economic and creative engagement in cities. My talks combine first-hand experience gained from my own work and intiatives around the world with research and insight gathered from a robust international network of practitioners and innovators in numerous fields. More information and referrals on my speaking engagements can be found below.
Please contact me at: sb[at]scottburnham[.]com if you’d like to discuss me speaking at your conference, event or meeting. Recent talks and keynote addresses I have delivered include:
The City as Platform
Creating platforms for economic and creative engagement
Finding the Truth in Systems
How to Stop Worrying and Start Learning from Design Hackers
Urban Play
From Urban Design to Designing the Urban
A partial listing of lectures and talks:
International Conference La città senza nome
Conference Keynote
Bari, Italy
Ikea Hacker
IKEA
Oslo, Norway
Hacking Design: Folly, Theft, or New Democratic Dawn
Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA)
London UK
Open Source Cultural Systems
Eyebeam
New York City, USA
Conference on the Creative Future of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
Lloyd Hotel Cultural Embassy
Amsterdam, NL
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, USA
World Urban Development Congress
Riga, Latvia
Ecole Speciale d’Architecture
Paris, France
Hacking Reality
Platform 21
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Visiting Professor
Design International Masterclass: Urban Intervention as Design Process
University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
Montreal, Canada
Closing Keynote Address
Charged Circuits Curatorial Practice Conference
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Open Culture
ARCO
Madrid, Spain
Visiting Lecturer
Creative Practice for Narrative Environments
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
London, UK
Urban Play: the new creative city
Tendances Design: creativity sans frontieres
Ex-Centris
Montreal, Canada
Re-defining the creative city
NESTA sponsored Lecture
Design Event 07
Newcastle UK
Inspiration in the Margins
Keynote
Transforma AC
Torres Vedras, Portugal
Gesprachsreihe Der offentliche Raum der Stadt
Die Fabrikanten
Linz, Austria
Cultural Leadership Keynote
Transforma AC
Torres Vedras, Portugal
Contemporary Creative China
Urbis
Manchester UK
Urban Gaia: The self-curating city
London Architecture Week
London UK
Interactive Urban Environments
Cityscape Conference on Urban Design
London UK
Creative Catalysts
Urban Research for European Policy Conference
De Balie
Amsterdam NL
Shrinking Cities Evening
Guest Speaker and Panel Chair
Goethe Institute
London UK
The VJ of the Everyday: Physically Remixing the Urban Visual
Conference Plenary Lecture
Visualising The City Symposium
University of Manchester
Manchester UK
Urban Cultural Tourism keynote
CulturMed
Catania, Italy








