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

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  • Behind the Reduction Roadmap Australia—and beyond The Number

    Behind the Reduction Roadmap Australia—and beyond The Number

    We need a 98% drop in greenhouse gas emissions per sqm of new housing. Building our housing targets will use 200% of our national budget
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    Dan Hill
    Apr 6
    Missions x Neighbourhoods

    Missions x Neighbourhoods

    Original draft of my essay for the ‘Mission Neighbourhood’ book, exploring participative transformations of the Nordic Model
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    Dan Hill
    Mar 1
    Shelter’s ‘Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy’

    Shelter’s ‘Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy’

    UK charity Shelter, with a new publication making the economic case for social housing—to add to the ethical, social, cultural and…
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    Dan Hill
    Apr 10
    An Australian Reduction Roadmap

    An Australian Reduction Roadmap

    The Australian Reduction Roadmap suggests we need a 98% reduction in emissions per sqm of new-build Australian housing
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    Dan Hill
    Apr 7
    ‘Future Communities’, an exhibition at the ICA in 1981

    ‘Future Communities’, an exhibition at the ICA in 1981

    Pages from the catalogue of the ICA’s 1981 Future Communities exhibition, with a foreword by Colin Ward
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    Dan Hill
    Mar 7
    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
    The balance wheel turns: Colin Ward, and the ‘everyday anarchism’ of decentralised systems

    The balance wheel turns: Colin Ward, and the ‘everyday anarchism’ of decentralised systems

    How Colin Ward’s ideas are more relevant than ever, with implications for architecture, technology, places and politics—a new book chapter
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    Dan Hill
    Mar 7
    A Garden of Ideas

    A Garden of Ideas

    An exhibit for the Oslo Architecture Trienniale 2022, about neighbourhood spaces for reworking the neighbourhood.
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    Dan Hill
    Mar 1
    Modern Housing: An environmental common good

    Modern Housing: An environmental common good

    A recent paper on housing, written with Mariana Mazzucato, outlining some ‘home truths’ about homes, and housing as a common good
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    Dan Hill
    Nov 23, 2024
    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 ...

    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
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