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Articles, cases and considerations regarding strategic design practice and thinking.

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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
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    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…
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    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
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    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 what…
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    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…
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    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)
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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
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    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.
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    Dan Hill
    Feb 2, 2019
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