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Dan Hill is Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult. A designer and urbanist, he has previously held leadership positions at Fabrica, SITRA, Arup and the BBC. He writes regularly for the likes of Dezeen, Domus and Volume, as well as the renowned blog City of Sound.
Throughout a career focused on integrating design, technology, cities, media and people, Dan has been responsible for shaping many innovative, popular and critically acclaimed products, services, places, strategies and teams. He is one of the organisers of the acclaimed architecture and urbanism event Postopolis!, running in New York and Los Angeles so far. He also writes City of Sound, generally thought of as one of the leading architecture and urbanism websites, as well as regularly writing for architecture and design press worldwide.
Dan is also a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which selects nominees and winners for the Webby Awards, the leading honour for websites, as well as being a jury member for both Core77 and IxDA interaction awards in 2012. He was included in the inaugural list of Sydney’s ‘Creative Catalysts’for the Vivid Sydney arts festival 2009.
Books and essays include “Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary” (Strelka Press, 2012), “Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space”, Mark Shepard (ed.) (2011), “Best of Technology Writing 2009”, Steven Berlin Johnson (ed.) (Yale University Press, 2010), and “Actions”, Mirko Zardini (ed., 2008), amongst others. His writing also appears regularly in Domus’ magazine, amongst others, where he curates the SuperNormal series. He is also a strategic design advisor to Domus.
His design work has featured in the Istanbul Design Biennal (2012), the AAA exhibition ‘Remodelling Architecture: Architectural Places - Digital Spaces’ (Sydney, 2009) and ‘Habitar: Bending the urban frame’ (Gijon, 2010).
Look around you. The buildings in the city you’re looking at are probably much as they looked 25 years ago (I’m taking a punt that you’re not in Shanghai.) They will probably look much like that in 25 years time too. Architecture changes cities slowly, if at all. The major changes in the way we live, work and play in cities are instead played out in a layer of objects bigger than a mobile phone and smaller than a building — vehicles and wearables, street furniture and sensors, informal infrastructure and pop-up structures, ‘sharing economy’ services and soon enough, urban robotics. This layer is parasitical, accessible, adaptable — new applications running on the old hardware — and replete with possibilities and pitfalls. A new practice of city making is emerging as a result, shaped as much by interaction design and service design as by architecture and urban planning. This talk explores some of what this might mean for design, technology and cities, and how these new intersections change what the very-near-future city is.
Join these men and women in their
vision of the future
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Brian David Johnson
Android Futurist
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Carla Diana
Cyborg Relations
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Chris Noessel
Death Star CXO
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Dan Hill
Mayor of Cloud City
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Ingrid Burrington
Time Traveller
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John Willshire
Jetpack Tinkerer
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Josh Clark
Holodeck Ethnographer
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Mark Stevenson
Total Immersion Video Game Writer
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Matt Novak
Paleo-futurist
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Nick Foster
Far Future Laboratory
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the Brighton Dome
Located in the all new Brighton Space Dome, 2,000 miles above the city of Brighton and Hove. Please make your way to the Brighton Dome Space Port, for your complimentary low earth orbit shuttle service.
Accommodation
Looking for somewhere to stay while in this friendly, futuristic city? Check out the Brighton page on AirBnB for local dwellings.
There are plenty of hotels too: Ibis, MyHotel, Artist Residence, Jury’s Inn, and Fhloston Paradise to name just a few.
To eat
For traditional earthly sustenance, you could beam yourself to the weekly Street Diner food market. There are also lots of ground-level restaurants and cafés nearby, where you can grab a bite during the lunch break (the lunch break lasts for an hour and a half so you’ll have plenty of time).
For liquid refreshment, the popular fuel known as ‘coffee’ is available from purveyors such as the Small Batch Coffee Company (on New Road, very close to the Brighton Dome Space Port).
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Burgers and Cocktails15 North Road
Brighton BN1 1YA
(on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off food orders)* -
Coho83a Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XE
53 Ship Street
Brighton BN1 1AF
(on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 10% off everything)* -
Gourmet Burger Kitchen44–47 Gardner Street
Brighton BN1 1UN
(on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 15% off food orders)* -
Kooks56 Gardner Street
Brighton BN1 1UN
(on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off entire bill)* -
Taylor St Baristas28 Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XA
(on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off all hot drinks)* -
Strada160–161 North Street
Brighton BN1 1EZ
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Las Iguanas7–8 Jubilee Street
Brighton BN1 1GE
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Pizza ExpressA3 Block, Jubilee Street
Brighton BN1 1GE
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E-kagen22–23 Sydney Street
Brighton BN1 4EN
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