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A Sketchbook for the City to Come: The Pop‐Up as R&D
Author(s) -
Hill Dan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1898
Subject(s) - architecture , gentrification , management , sociology , engineering , art , visual arts , civil engineering , economics
Dan Hill , an Executive Director at Future Cities Catapult, is not content to accept that architecture is willy‐nilly the carapace for the desires of the society that constructs it. He argues that pop‐ups – all too often the tools of corporate branding or the cat's paw of gentrification – should be used to implement overt social initiatives, presaging an architecture of positive change in cities. A member of the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra's Strategic Design Unit from 2011 to 2012, he helped lead the Open Kitchen initiative featured here.