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Dan Hill

Helsinki

Designer

Interests: Cities, urbanism, design, architecture, media etc.

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Journal: Roberto Saviano at Fabrica

We were extremely honoured to have Roberto Saviano speaking at Fabrica yesterday evening. Saviano is one of Italy's leading cultural figures. He's internationally-known for writing the incredible book "Gomorrah", which spawned the equally incredible film of the same name, denouncing... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: Announcing Sandbox, a collaboration between BERG and Fabrica

You will have heard a lot about smart cities and the Internet of Things. What you won't have seen is that many genuine products, services and projects in those areas. You will, of course, as there is immense potential after... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2013 at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: Colors magazine, Colors #86 "Making the News", and Colors News Machine

If you were to make a list of the ten most influential magazines of all time, I'd hazard a guess that Colors magazine might be in there, so it's a particular privilege that we get to produce Colors from Fabrica.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2013 at cityofsound

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Journal: Watch Dogs and world creation

It seems to me that there are around three hundred interesting things about these clips from the forthcoming game Watch Dogs. None of those things particularly concern the plot, characterisation, narrative, but rather the creation of worlds, especially urban worlds.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 22, 2013 at cityofsound

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Essay: On the smart city; Or, a 'manifesto' for smart citizens instead

Oh, the smart city. I have “previous” here, over about a decade of writing about the interplay between cities and technology. And particularly, having written about The Street As Platform, and the Personal Well-Tempered Environment, and The Adaptive City, and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2013 at cityofsound

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You can click on the images to see them larger at Flickr. And even very large if you click on magnifying glass on the Flickr images.

Commented Nov 21, 2012 on Journal: Proposals for Kiasma, by Peter Liversidge at cityofsound

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Thanks for all the comments, everyone! Much appreciated.

Commented Nov 16, 2012 on Journal: Old and New Finnish Grammar at cityofsound

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Journal: Fabrica

I’m writing this flying over the Alps, on BA579 from Venice to London. It’s a big blue sky lit by hazy sunshine, and the Alps look unreal. We just flew a few metres over a contrail, a perpendicular arc into... Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: Old and New Finnish Grammar

I’ve been learning Finnish for over a year now, and am getting nowhere fast. Finnish is a notoriously difficult language to learn—certainly amongst European languages—and so perhaps this is to be expected. But as an Englishman, one starts from the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 25, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: Fulcrum, the Architectural Association's free weekly newspaper

This is a fantastic idea: "Fulcrum is a weekly architectural publication printed on Bedford Press at the Architectural Association. It was founded in January 2011 by Graham Baldwin, Aram Mooradian & Jack Self." As I'm posting this, the current issue... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: Proposals for Kiasma, by Peter Liversidge

I propose to take the following photographs of this book of proposals for Kiasma by Peter LIversidge whilst standing in Kiasma gallery bookshop, holding the book in my left hand and my iPhone in my right, enjoying the conceit and... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: 20th century gestures / Supplement to the Italian Dictionary

By chance, after posting the 21st century gestures series a few weeks ago, I discovered Bruno Munari’s 1963 book “Supplemento al dizionario italiano”. This is a delicious project, which starts with a collection of gestures collated in the 19th century,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: The Garage of Small Things; nanotechnology, biomimicry and design practice (Annex)

What follows is a slightly different edit of my article for Artek’s new magazine, 'Annex', as part of their science and technology-themed issue. It explores some of the possibilities in and around advanced material research, based on a conversation between... Continue reading

Posted Oct 3, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: Annex, by Artek

‘Annex’ is a new magazine from Artek, the legendary Finnish design firm set up nearly 70 years ago by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl. A while ago, I mentioned the “prototype”, the 'Manifest' publication commissioned by... Continue reading

Posted Oct 2, 2012 at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: Domus magazine on iPad

(This is a slightly unusual entry in the Sketchbook series, as the end products are largely all the hard work of others, as noted below. Still.) For the last couple of years, I’ve been a strategic advisor to Domus magazine... Continue reading

Posted Oct 2, 2012 at cityofsound

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Journal: Open Kitchen is open for business

A picture is worth 1000 words. Which I think means I now have to write 1000 words, right? This is my favourite picture from the last Ravintolapäivä pop-up restaurant day (I've written about Ravintolapäivä before) As someone commented on Instagram,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 20, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: Foreword to Rory Hyde's "Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture"

We had the Helsinki launch of Rory Hyde's new book "Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture" today, featuring a panel discussion between Rory, Bryan Boyer, Jenna Sutela and me at the World Design Capital Paviljonki. Rory kindly asked... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: 21st Century Gestures Clip Art Collection

A month or so ago, Nicolas Nova asked me to write an essay for a project he was doing. He said they'd been working on a catalogue of novel "gestures, postures and digital rituals" and could I write about that,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: Maginot Line, from "Dark Matter & Trojan Horses" (Strelka Press)

What follows is one of the "plays" that didn't make that recent strategic design "playbook" for Strelka Press—Dark Matter & Trojan Horses. I'm sharing here as it serves as a bit of a taster for that essay, describing what I... Continue reading

Posted Aug 13, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: Helsinki Street Eats (Sitra)

A while ago, we (Sitra’s Strategic Design Unit) released a book on Helsinki’s street food culture, which, taken with a liberal pinch of salt, covers the last 150 years or so of food in the city. It ends with the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 13, 2012 at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: Print-on-demand work-in-progress

Like, I would guess, many people, I’ve been using print-on-demand services to present work-in-progress on projects. I thought I’d share a bit of that experience here, and with a few dispatches from the trenches to set the scene, try to... Continue reading

Posted Aug 9, 2012 at cityofsound

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Essay: Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary (Strelka Press)

Q. What connects Bryan Ferry and Cedric Price, dark matter and Hitchcock’s “Macguffin”, Trojan Horses and iPhones, 21st century social contracts and street food, the Brisbane floods and the UK riots, Occupy Everywhere and institutional redesign, bold claims about a... Continue reading

Posted Aug 7, 2012 at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: Dark Matter

What follows is a note to refer to later, and is also adapted from a section of my recent essay/e-book for Strelka Press: "Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary", of which more shortly. It’s been quite a... Continue reading

Posted Aug 7, 2012 at cityofsound

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Sketchbook: New SuperNormal column by Max Gadney, on real-time data visualisation and football + "Football" by Danny Blanchflower

I'm watching Germany vs. Italy at Euro 2012. It's currently exhibiting most of the characteristics that Max Gadney wrote about in the latest issue of Domus: quixotic improvisation and extreme technical skill, cohesive teamwork and the individual brilliance of Balotelli,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at cityofsound

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Whoops, thanks, fixed.

Commented Jun 4, 2012 on Sketchbook: New SuperNormal column by James Bridle, on Amazon, Kindle and reading at cityofsound

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