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Designing Missions: Mission-oriented innovation in Sweden

Designing Missions: Mission-oriented innovation in Sweden

Mission-oriented innovation creates systemic change for public purpose. But how? This playbook describes the design-led approach in Sweden.

2022

Stories

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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…

Apr 10

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

Apr 10

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An Australian Reduction Roadmap

The Australian Reduction Roadmap suggests we need a 98% reduction in emissions per sqm of new-build Australian housing

Apr 7

An Australian Reduction Roadmap

Apr 7

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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

Apr 6

Behind the Reduction Roadmap Australia—and beyond The Number

Apr 6

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‘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

Mar 8

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

Mar 8

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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

Mar 8

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

Mar 8

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A Garden of Ideas

An exhibit for the Oslo Architecture Trienniale 2022, about neighbourhood spaces for reworking the neighbourhood.

Mar 2

A Garden of Ideas

Mar 2

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Missions x Neighbourhoods

Original draft of my essay for the ‘Mission Neighbourhood’ book, exploring participative transformations of the Nordic Model

Mar 17

Missions x Neighbourhoods

Mar 17

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Deepseeking the city (3/3)

Third of three, drawing together the learning from Shanghai’s urban environments with thinking about distributed technologies—to understand…

Feb 26

Deepseeking the city (3/3)

Feb 26

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Bruteforcing the city (2/3)

Second of three posts reflecting on Shanghai’s convivial streets and small vehicles in which we explore the alternative, the bruteforced…

Feb 26

Bruteforcing the city (2/3)

Feb 26

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Small Vehicles of Shanghai — DeepSeeking the city

How cheap, open, distributed and diverse systems, like the electric motor, could transform the bruteforced city and our approach to AI

Apr 27

Small Vehicles of Shanghai — DeepSeeking the city

Apr 27

Dan Hill

Dan Hill

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Designer, urbanist &c. Director of Melbourne School of Design, Univ. Melbourne & UCL IIPP. Previously, Swedish gov, Arup, Fabrica, Helsinki Design Lab, BBC etc

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