Scott BURNHAM
Scott Burnham is a leading figure exploring creativity in an urban context and its applications in contemporary culture. He specialises in tracking the latest activities and developments in urban intervention and guerrilla design, working with an extensive network of practitioners and innovators to create new initiatives.
A frequent speaker on emerging urban activity, recent talks include “Open Source Urban: Embracing Urban Intervention as a Design Process”, delivered to the Cityscape Conference on Urban Design in London, 2005 and “The VJ of the Everyday: Physically Remixing the Urban Visual” at the University of Manchester (talk to be published in the forthcoming book Visualizing the City (Routledge, 2006).
In 2003, Burnham was appointed as Creative Director for Urbis, The Centre for Urban Culture, in Manchester, UK. Projects under his direction at Urbis include ‘Ill Communication’, one of Europe’s largest exhibitions of street art created by 10 of the world’s most acclaimed graffiti artists, and ‘SuperCity’, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with Will Alsop to completely re-think the future of the urban environment. ‘SuperCity’ was the featured cultural project for Britain’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Urban Summit in 2005.
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