Dan Hill - Technology Is the Answer, but What Was the Question?

2022-08-01

Dan Hill challenges us to think differently about our cities and civic spaces, to consider the second order effects of our work, and to think carefully about the questions we’re asking. Highlights include: ⭐ Who should be responsible for the negative externalities of technology?⭐ When and why did the financialisation of our public spaces begin?⭐ Technology is the answer, but what was the question?⭐ Do people have cause to be grumpy about cycle lanes?⭐ Why do we make cities?...

Dan Hill challenges us to think differently about our cities and civic spaces, to consider the second order effects of our work, and to think carefully about the questions we’re asking.

Highlights include:

⭐ Who should be responsible for the negative externalities of technology?
⭐ When and why did the financialisation of our public spaces begin?
⭐ Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
⭐ Do people have cause to be grumpy about cycle lanes?
⭐ Why do we make cities?

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Who is Dan Hill?

Dan recently finished up as the Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish Government’s innovation agency, to become the Director of the Melbourne School of Design, at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

He has also been an Associate Director and Head of Arup Digital Studio, a Strategic Design Lead at SITRA (Finland’s government innovation fund) and the Head of Interactive Technology and Design at the BBC.

Dan was one of the Mayor of London’s - Sadiq Khan’s - inaugural Design Advocates. He has been a Trustee of the Participatory City Foundation and he is a founding member of the UN HABITAT Council for Urban Initiatives.

The author of the influential book “Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary” and a a prolific blogger, Dan has been writing about design, technology, cities and culture for over 20 years on his blog, “City of Sound”.

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Find Dan here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cityofsound/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cityofsound
Website: https://www.cityofsound.com/
Blog: https://cityofsound.medium.com/

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