Creating New Opportunities From What We Already Have
2021-02-04
Creating new opportunities begins by understanding that everything has the ability to do more than its original function. Continue Reading
Realizing Potential by Shifting Skills
2021-02-01
The key to realizing potential can be found by shifting skills from one discipline to another to meet new needs and provide new perspective.Continue Reading
The Opportunity of Impermanence
2021-02-01
Understanding that everything exists in a state of impermanence is the gateway to create more fluid, agile, and meaningful uses for everything.Continue Reading
The Power of Conditional Thinking
2021-02-01
Conditional thinking gives us the freedom to change our perspective of the material world—and frees our objects from their prescribed use.Continue Reading
Repurposing and Adaptive Reuse Toolkit Now Available
2020-01-10
How to Reprogram the City is a 40-page self-guided repurposing and adaptive reuse toolkit of insights, examples, and exercises to help people discover the untapped potential in their own city. Continue Reading
Don’t Repair Infrastructure, Reprogram it for New Use
2019-02-11
In conjunction with the arrival of the Reprogramming the City book, Metropolis asked me to write an Op-Ed / Opinion piece for them: “By Simply Repairing Infrastructure, We’re Missing Huge Opportunities to Make Cities More Resilient and Responsive to Citizens’ Needs” which outlines why reprogramming existing assets is such a vital need for cities.Continue Reading
Reprogramming the City Book Now Available
2018-12-12
The culmination of years of research, exhibition, and projects, the Reprogramming the City book is now available! “Anyone reading Scott Burnham’s essential book will emerge reassured by the transformative power of agency and creativity in the world’s urban centers that isContinue Reading