Innovation is what happens when disciplines collide, overlap and yield new forms of seeing. It is also what happens when designers put people first and begin the process of creating through careful research and a cultivated literacy of situations, sites, human behaviors and systemic, analytical thinking. In the projects that follow, my architectural practice was transformed by the people who hired me and became my collaborators, teachers and sherpas through new and rigorous methodologies.
Above, when kids turn your mobile kitchen into a mobile dance floor on opening day and you thank your structural engineer for redundant live-load design of the platform!
Previous page, The Alameda Corridor photo by Lane Barden, c. 2005, from Infrastructural City, a book with my chapter about innovation in consumer urbansim.