Entrepreneur Makers: Digitally Crafted,Crowdfunded Pavilions

As part of a generation of architects graduating after the 2008 global financial crisis, Arthur Mamou-Mani and Toby Burgess developed an ethos of digital self-sufficiency. This is one that they have passed on to their students in Diploma Studio 10 at the University of Westminster, teaching them to self-build using digital fabrication techniques, but also to fund their work through crowdfunding, while promoting it on social media.     

Mapping Scales of Urban Identity

Ricky Burdett , Professor of Urban Studies at LSE where he is Director of the Urban Age programme, is engaged in studying cities at different scales and regional contexts. Here he looks at what gives a city like London its unique sense of scale, and how it might be possible to design in the sort of vibrancy and spatial complexity that evolve in informal neighbourhoods over time. Through examples of local initiatives in Cape Town and Mumbai, he gives concrete evidence of what constitutes this approach.