Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology's 'Smart Cities Research Institute', where his role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to helping ensure that future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all. He is a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring 'challenging' architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona.In 2001 Mark Burry founded the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University before establishing the Design Research Institute (DRI) in 2008. He held an ARC funded Federation Fellowship in 'Complex Architecture and Convergent Design' 2007-2012. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2014 as Professor of Urban Futures at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning where he helped develop the Faculty's capacity to consolidate research in urban futures, drawing together and augmenting expertise in urban visualisation, urban analytics, and urban policy.

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• Chapter 1 Better to Make a Good Future than Predict a Bad OneChapter 2 A Socially Attuned Future: Memory, Geography and Urban Project – The Case of Metropolitan BarcelonaChapter 3 Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudioChapter 4 Data-Informed Design: A Call for TheoryChapter 5 Seeking an Urban Philosophy: Carlo Ratti and the Senseable CityChapter 6 Perturbanism in Future Cities: Enhancing Sustainability in the Galapagos Islands through Complex Adaptive SystemsChapter 7 Diving Deep into Unknown Unknowns: People, Cities, Technology, Architecture and ArchitectsChapter 8 Augmenting Reality: (Big-)Data-Informed Urban Design and PlanningChapter 9 Homes, Communities and Games: Constructing Social Agency in Our Urban FuturesChapter 10 ‘Small Pieces, Loosely Joined’: Practices for Super-local Participative UrbanismChapter 11 From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology ModelChapter 12 Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building DreamsChapter 13 Data-Driven Urbanism: The Balance Between Spatial Intelligence and Design CraftsmanshipChapter 14 Urban Experiment: Taking Off on the Wind of AIChapter 15 A Perennial Practice: Designing Between Urban Landscape and Urban NetworkChapter 16 Architects Without Architecture: How Transdisciplinary Studios Reposition for 21st-Century ChallengesChapter 17 From ‘T’ to ‘π’ (pi)-shaped people: Better Urban Practice through Dual Depth in Architecture and Planning EducationChapter 18 Smart Who? Collective Intelligence Urban Design ModelsChapter 19 From Another Perspective – Cyberspace: Speculative Futures of the Recent Past Contributors

Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology's 'Smart Cities Research Institute', where his role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to helping ensure that future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all. He is a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring 'challenging' architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona.In 2001 Mark Burry founded the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University before establishing the Design Research Institute (DRI) in 2008. He held an ARC funded Federation Fellowship in 'Complex Architecture and Convergent Design' 2007-2012. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2014 as Professor of Urban Futures at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning where he helped develop the Faculty's capacity to consolidate research in urban futures, drawing together and augmenting expertise in urban visualisation, urban analytics, and urban policy.

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• Chapter 1 Better to Make a Good Future than Predict a Bad OneChapter 2 A Socially Attuned Future: Memory, Geography and Urban Project – The Case of Metropolitan BarcelonaChapter 3 Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudioChapter 4 Data-Informed Design: A Call for TheoryChapter 5 Seeking an Urban Philosophy: Carlo Ratti and the Senseable CityChapter 6 Perturbanism in Future Cities: Enhancing Sustainability in the Galapagos Islands through Complex Adaptive SystemsChapter 7 Diving Deep into Unknown Unknowns: People, Cities, Technology, Architecture and ArchitectsChapter 8 Augmenting Reality: (Big-)Data-Informed Urban Design and PlanningChapter 9 Homes, Communities and Games: Constructing Social Agency in Our Urban FuturesChapter 10 ‘Small Pieces, Loosely Joined’: Practices for Super-local Participative UrbanismChapter 11 From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology ModelChapter 12 Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building DreamsChapter 13 Data-Driven Urbanism: The Balance Between Spatial Intelligence and Design CraftsmanshipChapter 14 Urban Experiment: Taking Off on the Wind of AIChapter 15 A Perennial Practice: Designing Between Urban Landscape and Urban NetworkChapter 16 Architects Without Architecture: How Transdisciplinary Studios Reposition for 21st-Century ChallengesChapter 17 From ‘T’ to ‘π’ (pi)-shaped people: Better Urban Practice through Dual Depth in Architecture and Planning EducationChapter 18 Smart Who? Collective Intelligence Urban Design ModelsChapter 19 From Another Perspective – Cyberspace: Speculative Futures of the Recent Past Contributors

Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology's 'Smart Cities Research Institute', where his role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to helping ensure that future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all. He is a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring 'challenging' architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona.In 2001 Mark Burry founded the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University before establishing the Design Research Institute (DRI) in 2008. He held an ARC funded Federation Fellowship in 'Complex Architecture and Convergent Design' 2007-2012. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2014 as Professor of Urban Futures at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning where he helped develop the Faculty's capacity to consolidate research in urban futures, drawing together and augmenting expertise in urban visualisation, urban analytics, and urban policy.

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• Chapter 1 Better to Make a Good Future than Predict a Bad OneChapter 2 A Socially Attuned Future: Memory, Geography and Urban Project – The Case of Metropolitan BarcelonaChapter 3 Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudioChapter 4 Data-Informed Design: A Call for TheoryChapter 5 Seeking an Urban Philosophy: Carlo Ratti and the Senseable CityChapter 6 Perturbanism in Future Cities: Enhancing Sustainability in the Galapagos Islands through Complex Adaptive SystemsChapter 7 Diving Deep into Unknown Unknowns: People, Cities, Technology, Architecture and ArchitectsChapter 8 Augmenting Reality: (Big-)Data-Informed Urban Design and PlanningChapter 9 Homes, Communities and Games: Constructing Social Agency in Our Urban FuturesChapter 10 ‘Small Pieces, Loosely Joined’: Practices for Super-local Participative UrbanismChapter 11 From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology ModelChapter 12 Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building DreamsChapter 13 Data-Driven Urbanism: The Balance Between Spatial Intelligence and Design CraftsmanshipChapter 14 Urban Experiment: Taking Off on the Wind of AIChapter 15 A Perennial Practice: Designing Between Urban Landscape and Urban NetworkChapter 16 Architects Without Architecture: How Transdisciplinary Studios Reposition for 21st-Century ChallengesChapter 17 From ‘T’ to ‘π’ (pi)-shaped people: Better Urban Practice through Dual Depth in Architecture and Planning EducationChapter 18 Smart Who? Collective Intelligence Urban Design ModelsChapter 19 From Another Perspective – Cyberspace: Speculative Futures of the Recent Past Contributors