Category: Experience Design
-
Essay: ‘Urban parasites, data-driven urbanism and the case for architecture’, from Architecture + Urbanism, 2014:11
Please note: this post has moved over to Medium This follows the earlier post on this set of essays, which also features 'The Commodification of Everything' for 'SQM' and 'A sketchbook for the city to come: the popup as R&D', for AD. This one first published as: Essay: Urban Parasites, Data-Driven Urbanism, and the Case for…
-
Essay: ‘A sketchbook for the city to come: the popup as R&D’, for AD ‘Popups and Parasols’
Please note: this essay has now moved over to Medium. This follows the earlier post on this set of essays, which also features 'The Commodification of Everything' for 'SQM' and 'Urban Parasites, Data-Driven Urbanism, and the Case for Architecture' for A+U. This one was first published as: 'A Sketchbook for the City to Come:…
-
Sketchbook: Noticing planning notices
7 minutes·
·
The primary interface between the UK’s planning system and the people and places it serves is a piece of A4 paper tied to a lamppost in the rain. OK, not always rain. But rain often enough. The paper is a public notice describing a planning application for some kind of ‘development’ somewhere in the…
-
Sketchbook: Cities Unlocked
1 minute·
·
We (Future Cities Catapult) launched a major project today: Cities Unlocked. Phase one of a collaboration with Microsoft UK and Guide Dogs, it's a demonstrator of how wearables and 3D soundscapes could improve mobility and wayfinding in a beacon-enabled city. In other words, how might we get around cities in the near future? You can…
-
Essay: ‘Dark Matter and Trojan Horses’ e-book now on-paper, on-demand
Print-on-demand version of 'Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary'' A consistent request over the last couple of years has been for a physical version of my e-book for Strelka Press, 'Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary' (Read the background to that book here.) Potential readers either wanted a physical version…
-
Sketchbook: Connected Streets
2 minutes·
·
Much of the work at the Catapult is about making more holistic, integrated urban projects happen. While this can include governance and investment pieces, we’ve also been exploring technology at the street level. For example our Sensing Cities project, which is deploying air quality sensors across Enfield, Brixton, Elephant & Castle and Hyde Park, and…
-
Sketchbook: Fabrica 2013 Informal Annual Review: Code: “News Machine” & “Sadly By Your Side”
Code was something we had to rebuild a bit at Fabrica this year. Although there had been a strong code culture at Fabrica in the past, from the likes of Jonathan Harris, Oriel Ferrer Mesià, João Wilbert, Bethany Koby & Daniel Hirschmann and the late Andy Cameron of course, when I arrived the then Interaction department…
-
Journal: Fabrica Lectures
4 minutes·
·
Since I've been at Fabrica, one simple thing we've done is to increase the frequency of the lectures and workshops we host here. Fabrica had a long tradition of inviting people to come and talk, or run workshops—in the distant past we had everyone from Tomato to Issey Miyake, Ferran Adrià to Michael Nyman (sadly…
-
Journal: Fabrica
1 minute·
·
I’m writing this flying over the Alps, on BA579 from Venice to London. It’s a big blue sky lit by hazy sunshine, and the Alps look unreal. We just flew a few metres over a contrail, a perpendicular arc into the sunlight, hundreds of kilometres long, a surprisingly distinct temporary structure of curly vapour. Best…
-
Essay: Foreword to Rory Hyde’s “Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture”
We had the Helsinki launch of Rory Hyde's new book "Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture" today, featuring a panel discussion between Rory, Bryan Boyer, Jenna Sutela and me at the World Design Capital Paviljonki. Rory kindly asked me to write the foreword to the book, and as per usual, I've reproduced an…