Skip to content
SCOTT BURNHAM
Primary Navigation Menu
Menu
  • About
  • Writing
    • Freelance Writing Profile
    • Writing Portfolio
    • 50 Ways to Mine the City
    • This Could…
    • Reprogramming the City
    • How to Reprogram the City: Toolkit
    • NatureStructure
    • Design Hacking
    • Trust Design
    • Online Store
  • Teaching
  • Initiatives
    • NatureStructure
    • Reprogramming the City
    • Made of Jesolo
    • Urban Play: Tactical Urbanism and Open Design in Amsterdam
  • SPEAKING
  • Blog
  • CONTACT

Scott Burnham (Page 2)

I am an urban strategist and author who has created, developed, and directed initiatives for over a dozen cities worldwide. I am the author of Reprogramming the City and contributor to Metropolis, The Guardian, Architizer and others.

I have addressed The World Bank, The World Urban Development Congress and the European Cultural Conference on strategies for resourceful design, urbanism and creative engagement in cities, and have consulted and delivered keynote addresses on the topic in over 20 countries.

“This is… is no longer tenable.” – Rem Koolhaas

2021-02-02

Looking at situations and resources with “This is” in mind keeps us right where we are. Thinking “This could…” creates the fulcrum point for a more creative, resourceful future.Continue Reading

How to Create Opportunity

Strategy 5: How to Create Opportunity: Assists Win More Games than Goals

2020-03-19

Finding opportunity is everyone’s goal, but learning how to create opportunity will result in more goals for everyone.Continue Reading

Find New Opportunities

Strategy 4: Find New Opportunities by Reframing Your Offering

2020-03-19

When times are tough, you can find new opportunities by describing your skill set and the value you offer a different way.Continue Reading

Minimal Viable Project

Strategy 3: Focus on the Minimal Viable Project

2020-03-18

When the “best. idea. ever.” comes along, don’t risk it all on a big rollout. Identify the Minimal Viable Project needed to communicate the concept and lay the foundation for the next version. Continue Reading

Create Space within Limitations

Strategy 2: Create Space Within Limitations

2020-03-17

Every space provides two resources: its physical parameters and its axis of experience. In order to create space within limitations, we must rely on the latter. Continue Reading

Make Ideas for the Public Realm Happen

Strategy 1: Make Ideas Happen by Leveraging the City’s Allowances

2020-03-17

Many great ideas for the public realm have been defeated by the notion of “getting permission” before they’ve had a chance to come to life. Here are three methods for bringing ideas to life in the city.Continue Reading

How to Make Ideas Happen

How to Make Ideas Happen: Creative Strategies Series

2020-03-16

Over the course of 30 years of plying my trade around the world, I’ve developed some decent creative strategies along the way. In the lead-up to the release of my latest book, I’m sharing some of them here.Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 … 12 Next

Urban Mining

urban mining: mine the city

Urban Mining: 50 Ways to Mine the City

This Could…

six steps for resourceful innovation

Six Steps for Resourceful Innovation

Freelance Writing Portfolio This Could by Scott Burnham

This Could…How Two Words Create Opportunity, Increase Creativity, and Reduce Waste

How to Reprogram the City

How to Reprogram the City: Toolkit by Scott Burnham

Learn more here

Reprogramming the City

Reprogramming the City by Scott Burnham
44 of the most innovative urban reuse projects from 17 countries

Categories

  • Creative Strategies
  • Exhibitions
  • Projects
  • Reprogramming the City
  • Talks
  • This Could
  • Urban Mining
  • Writing

Tag Cloud

alternate use amsterdam architecture BakeryScan books Boston BSA chicago Copenhagen Creative Strategies design hacking Historical Infrastructure Ideas Infrastructure innovation Jesolo Light Poles lisbon london Media Coverage metropolis mine the city NatureStructure open source Oslo reprogrammingthecity Repurposing resilience resourceful resourcefulness resources Reuse RSA Stockholm street art teaching this could trust trust design UQAM urban hacks urban mining Urban Play Workshops

Project Sites

  • NurtureStructure
  • Reprogramming the City

My Books

  • urban mining: mine the city Urban Mining: 50 Ways to Mine the City $5.95
  • six steps for resourceful innovation Six Steps for Resourceful Innovation $6.95
  • Freelance Writing Portfolio This Could by Scott Burnham This Could...How Two Words Create Opportunity, Increase Creativity, and Reduce Waste $9.95
  • NatureStructure: Infrastructure for Nature $9.95

Please Subscribe

For book news, offers, and updates.

Copyright Scott Burnham 2022

No products in the cart.