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EIT Climate-KICClimathon: Hack your City2019



DATE: 2019
In collaboration with: InnerPlanet Collective, FOSTER + PARTNER, FINN HARRIES

LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
CLIMATE ZONE: Temperate oceanic
CLIMATE STRESSORS: SEA LEVEL RISE, Flooding, Extreme heat



STATUS: DELIVERED
OFR ROLE: Lead designer; Engagement Specialist
OFR WORK STRANDS: STRATEGIC & SYSTEMS DESIGN, Capacity & Co-Design

OFR was brought in with Finn Harries by the InnerPlanet Collective to curate and design London's architecture edition of the global Climathon, which was running across more than 60 cities.

The three-day climate hackathon set out to treat climate action in the city as a design problem, open to anyone willing to spend a day on it. It brought together over 250 students, designers, planners and engineers together across three London venues, closing with teams pitching 2030 city proposals. OFR’s Architecture Climathon was hosted at Foster + Partners.

OFR built a structured, studio-style format: cross-disciplinary participants (students and recent graduates from Cambridge, Imperial, King's, UCL, the AA, CSM and others, alongside planners, engineers and researchers) were paired into teams, opened with a panel of politicians, academics, economists and architects, and taken through a designed sequence from brainstorm to pitch. The questions set were concrete and spatial: how to power the city, how to localise its food supply, and how to make urban decision-making participatory.


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The event ran over three days and three London venues, including Foster+Partners' HQ, the Urban Innovation Centre and the Foundry, each day built around one theme: data, apps and the city. Over 250 participants moved through a sequence OFR designed end to end, from forming teams and brainstorming to assembling four proposals into a single "mega-city" and pitching it, mega-crit style, to a jury of mentors and investors. The day's outputs, 2030 city proposals expressed through models, drawings and diagrams, were carried into the InnerPlanet platform and put to local councils and the Mayor's Design Assembly. As a piece of curation it was an early instance of how OFR works: taking a complex public problem, building the structure and the room that let a mixed group of people design into it together, and turning collective concern into concrete, spatial proposals.



Office for Repair and Finn Harries, with the InnerPlanet Collective. Supported by EIT Climate-KIC, the EIT and Foster+Partners.
Photography: Liberty Pim and Joshua Cowan (2019)


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