ROLES: Facilitation Process and Experience Design Project Management Tactical Urbanism Business Development I have an international professional background in project management in the property and construction industry. Further to that I have worked with interpersonal communication and culture building processes. The projects I have been working on at DOGA...
Tag Archive for: Resilience
Reimagining Reservoirs: The opening of Walthamstow Wetlands
A year and a half ago a project not more than ¼ mile from my home in Seven Sisters, London, caught my attention. It was the repurposing of 10 privately owned water reservoirs into urban #wetlands, and so intrigued me that it became the topic of my Master’s dissertation....
Protected: Reimagining Reservoirs
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Blockchain in Ghana: Revolutionising land transfer in a complex environment
How people can safely secure land property via #Blockchain in a risky environment In Ghana there are a host of problems involved with attempting to secure property. The slow bureaucratic process of registering your property – two years on average – can see someone unexpectedly claiming your land before...
Events
8 Sept - Massive Small Symposium Urban Development from the Ground Up A full-day event for anyone interested in the development of towns and cities. It features a series of classes and focused 15-minute talks by some of the very best urban practitioners sharing the greatest lessons they have...
Kelvin Campbell – Chair
BArch RIBA MRTPI FRSA Fellowship in Built Environment: Royal Commission 1851 Honorary Professor: CASA@Bartlett, University College London Roles: Thought Leadership Urban Development Strategy Lectures and Education Writing Aylesbury Estate - A project where many Massive Small techniques were tried and tested. View PDF Report. Kelvin has written government policy...
The Rise of Resilience Planning
Cities administrations are often so burdened, that crisis management takes precedence over strategic risk mitigation. As climate change and urban population growth increase the pressure and frequency of these responses, some cities are recognizing the value of anticipatory planning. That is, investing in resilience. This is a critical role...
Fractal street lengths as a starting point for an urban district infill | Nels Nelson
Left to right: Veins of a leaf displaying scale hierarchies; Map of Paris displaying street scaling; H-fractal with ten scale levels. I’ve been highly motivated by a presentation I saw by Serge Salat (Urban Morphology Lab) regarding the #resilience of urban fabric as tested by two parameters, the relative frequency of...
Massive Small Declaration
MASSIVE SMALL DECLARATION* THE URBAN ANTIDOTE TO BIGNESS THESE DECLARATIONS DEFINE AND GOVERN THE MASSIVE SMALL PROJECT. THEY OUTLINE THE THINKING, PRINCIPLES AND BEHAVIOURS NEEDED TO MEET THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF OUR TOWNS AND CITIES. THEY ARE MUTUALLY REINFORCING: EACH POINT SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED IN ISOLATION TO THE...
Theory
An Overview of Massive Small Theory and Context "When planning and design become the sole domain of experts - the street level intelligent informal creativity gets lost. What we get instead is an architecture of compliance where people are relegated at best to caretakers." Nabeel Hamdi Massive Small Collective...
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We are different to most consultation organisations working in this field (e.g. Bloomberg Associates, IBM), even the most prestigious still propose solutions based on complicated technical systems for governments to predict and plan their environments. We are also different from most bottom-up organisations (Meu Rio, Brazil. Better Block Project,...
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- Reimagining Reservoirs: The opening of Walthamstow Wetlands October 25, 2017
- Protected: Reimagining Reservoirs August 18, 2017
- Blockchain in Ghana: Revolutionising land transfer in a complex environment June 1, 2017
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