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Agencies to work in the gaps, and holding up questions in public: the ArkDes case
Agencies to work in the gaps, and holding up questions in public: the ArkDes case
On the role of design-led agencies that can work as the cement between the bricks, allowing systemic responses to systemic challenges
Dan Hill
Nov 12, 2022
Sharing research about the shared value of shared streets
Sharing research about the shared value of shared streets
Help build this collection of shared, open research about some of the multiple and diverse forms of value that retrofitting our streets…
Dan Hill
Sep 28, 2021
Running a ‘find-and-replace’ over the city, replacing streets with parks
Running a ‘find-and-replace’ over the city, replacing streets with parks
Adapting Holger Blom’s 1946 principles for Stockholm’s park programme to inform today’s street systems
Dan Hill
Sep 14, 2021
Working with Brian Eno on design principles for streets
Working with Brian Eno on design principles for streets
Bringing a cultural voice into an urban planning conversation that has become narrowly technical, and diversifying the thinking around…
Dan Hill
Aug 31, 2021
Thoughts on a New European Bauhaus
Thoughts on a New European Bauhaus
An offering to frame the design process for this new European Union proposition; plotting a course through a minefield, planting seeds for…
Dan Hill
Jan 24, 2021
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary
A playbook for strategic designers (Strelka Press, 2012)
Dan Hill
Aug 7, 2012
Review: ‘Architects After Architecture’
Review: ‘Architects After Architecture’
A quick review of ‘Architects After Architecture: Alternative Pathways for Practice’ (2020), edited by Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, and…
Dan Hill
Dec 27, 2020
Cars as the new horses, high streets as the new high streets: Reinventing London’s high streets in…
Cars as the new horses, high streets as the new high streets: Reinv...
The original version of an essay supporting the Mayor of London’s guidance for London’s high streets, but with questions, and suggestions…
Dan Hill
Jan 21, 2020
‘Change the Model’: an interview about drip-feeding culture change via strategic design
‘Change the Model’: an interview about drip-feeding culture change ...
Stuart Candy interviews me about moving the Overton Window, Slow-release Culture Drugs in government and beyond, and designers as General…
Dan Hill
Nov 11, 2019
Daylighting Melbourne: how we can transform our cities, street by street
Daylighting Melbourne: how we can transform our cities, street by street
Let us Not-Plan. Instead, let’s break urban transformation into a series of small, progressive steps, enabling people, technology, place…
Dan Hill
Nov 9, 2019
Teams of Teams, Railways not Sandwiches
Teams of Teams, Railways not Sandwiches
Making 21st century cities by making 21st century city governments
Dan Hill
Oct 30, 2019
The city is my homescreen
The city is my homescreen
How design practice can work better for people, services and cities together, and not simply individuals.
Dan Hill
Feb 2, 2019
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