For the last few months (2020) I’ve been working as creative director on a new urban rewilding project. Here, I’ll discuss some of the research I’ve come across and how I’ve started organising my thinking. — Note: the project has now (2022) been written up in more detail here: https://haque.co.uk/work/rewild/ Participatory urban (re)wilding combines three distinct phenomena that have their own complexities and characteristics. Participation and cities, I know a thing or two about; rewilding less so. I’m interested in how to combine the three —…

Below are notes from my introduction to the FutureFest18 session ‘Are smart cities broken? Reimagining urban technologies’ on July 16, 2018, a debate and discussion with Francesca Bria, Alison Powell, John Tolva. The session was recorded, so if video is released I will add it later. Broken Smart Cities Are smart cities broken…

Notes on participatory design from the introduction to my talk at re-publica 2017 I’m going to talk today about designing participatory systems. I’ll talk about some of my work over the last 15 years, some of the things I noticed along the way, and some of the things I’d like…