Burnham with "Sculpt Me Point" by Marti Guixe - Urban Play, Amsterdam

Scott Burnham is a creative director and strategist for design and urban initiatives, working with a number of cities, institutions and organizations worldwide. He created the Urban Play project for the city of Amsterdam in collaboration with Droog Design to transform areas of the city into public platforms for design interventions; he also created the Bairro Criativo project for the city of Porto, Portugal, to enable individuals to design and things they felt would improve their daily lives in the city.

In addition to his urban projects, he is the author of “Finding the Truth in Systems: In Praise of Design Hacking”, “Urban Play”, and the forthcoming “Urban Guide for Alternate Use”. Burnham is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London and a Trustee of the global micro-funding initiative The Awesome Foundation. He has addressed the International Conference on European Policy and the World Urban Development Congress, and has guest lectured at institutions including Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design, London, and the University of Quebec, Montreal. He is currently the director of the Trust Design project for Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design, and a Guest Editor for Volume Magazine. For more information please visit scottburnham.com