Videos of lectures & talks by Usman Haque. He speaks internationally to a variety of audiences, including architects, urbanists, designers, artists, students, academics, businesses, entrepreneurs and local authorities.
Topics include: responsible design & technology • networked urban environments • interactive architecture • social impact of technology • rewilding & urban wilding • participatory systems • urban platforms • environmental sensing & air quality • internet of things, data & society • design & the climate emergency • cities, people & nature
Most of Usman's talks are built around practical knowledge from specific projects and platforms that he has created, as well as Umbrellium’s Toolkit & Methodology , used by cities worldwide. He can communicate complex subjects to non-experts and members of the public, or give more technical/academic talks where necessary.
Feb 2022 • Wild Cities – with Rosanna Vitiello - WRLDCTY
April 2021 • Infrastructures for Participation - Domus Academy
March 2021 • What Will Our View of Nature Bring to the Future? - Invisible Dust
2021 • Designing Restorative Environments - Media Architecture Biennale
Sept 2019 • Lecture - Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg
2018 • What Can You Do With The "Smart" City? - Canadian Centre for Architecture
2017 • Expanded Practice Launch Seminar - Goldsmiths Design, Goldsmiths College, London
2017 • Infrastructures for Participation - WWIOT Day
November 2017 • Who Design, Who Decides - MEDIATIONS Conference, TRADERS project
May 2017 • Mutually Assured Construction - Usman Haque talk at Re:publica, Berlin
2016 • Infrastructures for Participation - ThingsCon, Amsterdam
2016 • Making decisions about technologies that make decisions about us - TedxExeter, Exeter
2016 • London 2080 - With Kim Stanley Robinson
December 2015 • Searching for the internet of things - The potential of the internet of things
June 2015 • Tools for Citizen Empowerment - Usman Haque - Talk on Messy Cities at Brain Bar Budapest
July 2015 • Mini Burble by Umbrellium | Quays Culture - Mini Burble in Salford, UK
July 2015 • Systems Of Participation - Artist's Talk, Quays Culture
2015 • What is it that you design? Who is it that designs? Who decides? - Innovative City Forum 2015, Tokyo
2015 • Civic engagement in urban development - Smart City Expo World Congress
2015 • Cities and Citizen Empowerment - HackCambridge
2014 • Usman Haque - feature - Cathay Pacific
2014 • Architecture presentation - archiboo
2014 • Data Drama - Session 2 - Another Public - Princeton School of Architecture
November 2014 • Interview with Mischa Dohler and Usman Haque - IOT360 Summit
October 2014 • Making sense - Data discovery, entitlement & agency, Talk at Structure Connect 2014 -
October 2014 • Mini Burble Creative vision - Interview with Umbrellium founding partner, Usman Haque
July 2014 • Assemblance at the Barbican's Digital Revolution - Project development and interviews.
May 2014 • In Praise of Messy Cities - Usman Haque @ CyberSalon Smart Cities II
May 2014 • Canary or the coal mine - data, meaning and the internet of things - ThingsCon, Berlin.
April 2014 • Smart People, Dumb Objects, Networked Environments - Talk at ProductTank 2014
March 2014 • In Praise of Messy Cities - Lecture at The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment
December 2013 • Participatory Platforms for the Internet of Things - Talk at ThingMonk 2013
March 2013 • Grub Street & the Super Wicked – In Praise of Messy Cities - Future Everything 2013
2013 • The Qualities of IoT - Gigaom
2013 • Making Data - an interview - ESWC Summer School
2012 • Projects presentation - University of the Arts, London
2012 • Demanding devices - Usman Haque - NESTA, London
November 2012 • Connecting Citizens - Talk at Future London 2012
April 2012 • Qualities of Data - Situated Technologies - Beneath and Beyond Big Data
March 2012 • Data, Napkins, and Digital Urbanism - ARUP Digital Studio Presentation, Sydney
March 2012 • Open Data & The Internet of Things - Keynote at Strata 2012
February 2012 • Social Cities of Tomorrow, Keynote - Keynote at Social Cities of Tomorrow conference, organised by Virtueel Platform.
2012 • Structures of Participation - Improving Reality, Lighthouse Arts
2012 • Lecture - Designing Geopolitics 2, University of California, San Diego
April 2012 • Lecture - Beneath and Beyond Big Data, The Architectural League
2011 • Interview - SmartGeometry
2011 • Studio Talk - RCA Interaction Experience Design
2010 • Notes on the design of participatory systems - IIT Institute of Design
2010 • Natural Fuse - interview - Toward the Sentient City
2010 • Architecture, Interaction Systems - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2010 • Platforms for Participation - Future of Technology, University of Michigan Taubman College
2009 • Pachube and Connected Environments - lift09
2009 • Natural Fuse - Architectural League of New York
2005 • Sky Ear - Structural experiments on electromagnetic fields - transmediale 2005
2005 • Lecture at the Architecture Association - With Armin Medosch, Part of Wireless London & The AA - Civic Communications