Make

We “learn by doing” and are continually researching and prototyping. We use emerging ideas, concepts and technologies so that we are in a better position to inspire and inform.

• Research

  

  Consumption, Investment and Jobs

  As part of the 4see project, this A0-sized poster contains historical data for the whole UK economy since 1990. It includes economic activity, investment, capital, employment, energy, trade, balance of payments and transportation.

• Research

  

  4see

  An economy-wide systemic approach which draws insights from historical socio-economic-energy trends to develop future scenarios. A 4see model can be used to test whether future scenarios are physically consistent, since if they are not physically viable, they cannot be economically possible.

• Research

  

  Cut ‘n’ paste cities

  A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography the places and things they love about their cities, and those that they could do without.

• Exhibitions

  

  Millennium bridge thermal interactive

  ‘A Day in the Life of the Millennium Bridge’, a thermal photographic study of London’s much loved pedestrian link between Tate Modern and St Paul’s by Joseph Giacomin, Duncan Wilson and Kaveh Shirdel, features in the Phase 2 exhibition Bridge Stories.

• Research

  

  BOP – Making sense of space

  A £1 million, two-year, multidisciplinary project, funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board.

• Tools

  

  drivers of change voting application

  The Drivers of Change voting application is a cloud based tool for digitally storing and re-presenting the issues that groups of people feel are important.

• Research

  

  drivers of change

  Since our first set of Drivers of Change cards, printed in 2006, we have been producing an ongoing series of publications that deal with key issues affecting the future of the built environment.