A Sketchbook for the City to Come: The Pop‐Up as R&D

Dan Hill, an Executive Director at Future Cities Catapult, is not content to accept that architecture is willy-nilly the carapace for the desires of the society that constructs it. He argues that pop-ups – all too often the tools of corporate branding or the cat's paw of gentrification – should be used to implement overt social initiatives, presaging an architecture of positive change in cities. A member of the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra's Strategic Design Unit from 2011 to 2012, he helped lead the Open Kitchen initiative featured here.