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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
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
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…
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
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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 ...
Adapting Holger Blom’s 1946 principles for Stockholm’s park programme to inform today’s street systems
Dan Hill
Sep 14, 2021
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