Over the past few months, we've had several conversations with planners and entrepreneurs in Melbourne, London and San Francisco interested in 'innovation clusters', which in a nutshell describes the creation of live places specifically designed to generate and drive knowledge capital. This is a.
Change, the future and how best to prepare is top of every strategist's mind, not least the university educationalist, for whom the world of the student experience is fast becoming something of an obsession. And rightfully so, though a word of caution: when recently asked by a UK-based university as.
In 1968, the literary theorist Roland Barthes published a short and incendiary essay Death of the Author, in which he argued that the intentions of the author ought to be separated from interpretations of the text. The author, he says, 'is born simultaneously with the text, and is no way supplied.
One of the key challenges facing our clients and friends across the board is how to attract and engage the world's best talent. In the world of the university campus, best talent includes students, academics, alumni, industry, and partners, who all contribute to the successes by which universities.
As a lesson in experience design for city makers, Gardens by the Bay is one of my favourite examples of the virtues of thinking about the start of a future place not in terms of an architect's masterplan, but rather as a narrative journey that in itself is composed of and drills down into any number.
