Month: September 2020

  • Where do you test an innovation? – optimising under constraints

    Where do you test an innovation? – optimising under constraints

    In this blog entry we will discuss the selection of sites for deploying urban innovation (for example, for demonstrators, living-labs or technical trials), sharing some thoughts that arose in response to developments in a real-life project we are supporting. Our work in the project reminded us that site selection is not trivial- context matters for […]

  • Corbusier on my mind: Design thinking and post-covid living.

    Corbusier on my mind: Design thinking and post-covid living.

    Ever since we have been singing a double Happy Birthday during our 20 second hand-washing rituals at every available washbasin, Le Corbusier has been on my mind. I had previously thought he must have had some rather paranoiac tendencies born of a childhood discomfiture that made him feel it necessary to have sinks throughout his […]