Born in Spain, Diana moved to England at a young age and has continued migrating since, following a fascination for cities and the social and material systems that define them. While studying Architecture at Cambridge University she co-founded the ICT development conferences and developed research interests in frontier urbanism, which she took up again in her MA thesis on Transnational Studies, with a focus on the role of blank space in mapping Gibraltar and Hebron's internal and national boundaries. Diana has worked at MGAARQTOS in Valencia (2006-7) and MVRDV in Rotterdam (2007-9). In 2008 she also wrote for the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, and in 2011-12 joined the editorial team of Phaidon's C20th World Architecture Atlas. In 2009-10 Diana was based in Cairo mapping micro-scale infringements of the official urban order and the impact of infrastructure on habit. She also worked as a journalist and creative editor for a Cairo design magazine. This year she co-founded postscript.ps, a playful research group with a focus on archiving realities of Hebron beyond the dominant peace-conflict narrative; the Middle East continues to be a major focus of her research, as much for its rapidly evolving urbanism as for its creative flexibility - two vital ingredients of PLAY.
A recent publication by Phillips discusses the advent of 'Big Data' - complex datasets requiring innovative analysis. The findings extracted from Big Data can have transformative effects on how we...
Notes on the Future Everything Summit in Manchester 2013, by Play the City Researcher Luis Veracruz
Yet an urbanism based on patchwork alone, however creative, cannot sustain the growth of a city like Cairo...
Aren’t we all bored with rhetoric that launches into grandiose criticism of how the modernist city planning in the post-war era has swept away the complexity of old cities, their quasi-organic forms
So far, observations from the game suggest that the construction of a public road by private stakeholders, on the basis of percentage ownership of private land, has many pitfalls. De observaties n.a.