Interviews

Written interviews & podcasts with Usman Haque.


Interviews

  • Usman Haque - Interviewed by Hao Zhang – "One of the most useful things I've always found was to try to build things, not just to remain at the design stage but actually to try and build and prototype something", Bartlett Alumni, 2021
  • Usman Haque: Street wise – "I wanted to transform what people think of as architecture, do stuff that was explicitly interactive, explicitly about the way we live our lives and organise them, and wanted to do something within the city", Sparkkle, Feb 2020
  • Building Engaging Spaces of the Future – "Engagement for me is almost the fundamental thing, because there is a technical aspect to it, there is a sociocultural aspect to it, there is a kind of governance aspect to it, and making all these things work together is key", Momenta, Oct 2019
  • Uniting the human-scale with the city-scale – "London-based architect Usman Haque is famed for his interactive architectural systems, and for his exploration of newer, more effective ways of creating human engagement and interaction through his designs.", in Indian Architect & Builder, Oct 2019
  • Shared Memories of a Possible Future: An Interview with Umbrellium's Usman Haque, "Usman Haque's practice is not what you would immediately think of as architecture. But, as founding partner of London-based urban technology designers Umbrellium, Haque is having an impact in areas associated with the discipline", by Owen Hopkins, Architectural Design, 2018
  • The Granularity of Participation - interview by Valerie Chatelet, "Participation is the principal topic of this interview, and it is a fundamental theme in the work of Usman Haque, a London-based architect and artist whose activities defy traditional categories.", in Practicable - From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art, Edited by Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen, 2016
  • Usman Haque interview, "We were always looking for ways you could actually build the thing that you were imagining", Here East, 2015
  • Designing Projects That Thrill And Empower – "The real opportunity afforded by building these participatory projects is to involve citizens in building a shared memory of a possible future", Forbes, March 2014
  • Networking Overload, with Potplants: An interview about the Natural Fuse project – "It is vital for people to be able to participate in the process of evidence-gathering: partly so that they can question the ‘standards of evidence,’ partly so that they can become part of a solution, but also so that they can understand the methodological limitations to any data-acquisition (and carbon-capturing) process", Matthew Fuller, Thresholds, 2010
  • Usman Haque - Manifesto – "We (designers, architects, and other pseudo-experts) have got to stop trying to sell people the idea that there are simple and obvious ways to deal with the kinds of complex systems that govern both our social and environmental lives", The Funambulist, 2010
  • Movin' Space: Usman Haque (Danish), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
  • Pachube, Patching the Planet: Interview with Usman Haque – "We can consider, equally as ‘environments’ a mountainside, the interior a building, the context of a webpage, the internal status and external context of a mobile device, the interactions within something like Second Life", Ugotrade, Jan 2008
  • Interview with Usman Haque – "I suddenly discovered that a lot of the things I had been thinking about in an unstructured way actually had historical precedent and had been carefully thought out and formalized even before I was born", Daniele Mancini, March 2007
  • A Visit from the Designer! Usman Haque, T-1 Japan, 2006

Podcasts