The Civic Hack will be exploring the future city via the way we use and design its public spaces. In partnership with the Northbank BID, their ongoing project to pedestrianise the Strand-Aldwych area will be used as a starting point to develop innovative ideas and conversations around the function of public city spaces in London and beyond.
Makerversity are inviting makers across a range of disciplines, from tech to architecture and product design, to come up with new tools, systems and solutions create new products, systems and design tools which seek to re-imagine the function of public space in the city of the future. Three briefs will focus on different problems and solutions to re-design and re-imagine these spaces:
How can we design interventions which improve inclusion and collaboration in city public space?
How do we use technology to improve the ways we navigate the city and interact with each other?
How do we place-make and develop cities for civic benefit?
The Civic Hack will be open to the public so that everyone can come and express their use of public space in London alongside our judging panel of experts. The design processes and outcomes of the Hack will be displayed in an exhibition in Somerset House in September, during London Design Festival.
The winning team for the Civic Hack will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and a 6-month Northbank BID residency at Makerversity to develop their project.
