Creative Strategist, Cultural Entrepreneur
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Strategist for Design Trust at Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion
- Creative Director at CrunchLab
- Creator of Urban Play at Droog Design
- Media Analyst, Lecturer, Writer at scottburnham.com
- Past
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- Creative Strategist at Montreal Biennale
- Creative Consultant / Strategist at Duck and Weave UK
- Creative Director at Urbis
- Founder at UrbanMade
- Education
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- Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design
- Boston University
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Scott Burnham’s Summary
Creative Strategist working at the edge of design, open source methodology, and urban culture with global media reach and coverage.
I devise strategies and engineer ideas to transform organisations, campaigns, products, and at times entire cities into platforms for creativity and innovation, with a focus on new economic models for the creative economy in times of constraint. Throw in my work as media commentator, writer, lecturer and consultant, and we're pretty close to how I spend my days.
Scott Burnham’s Specialties:
Concept creation and creative strategy; new models for the creativity economy in times of constraint; generative and open source methodologies to create micro and local platforms for engagement and innovation within a global framework; highly skilled at global media commentary: recent coverage in Russia, India, Ukraine, Argentina, North America and Europe.
Scott Burnham’s Experience
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Strategist for Design Trust
Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion
(Design industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Design Trust is a global initiative to explore the contribution that design disciplines can make in solving our current crisis of trust in the products and services we use. Design Trust explores how to renew our trust in design, and ultimately if trust itself can be designed.
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Creative Director
CrunchLab
(Design industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Founder and one of the creative leads in Crunchlab specializing in Design. Crunchlab catalyzes grass roots creativity and innovation within constrained conditions.
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Creator of Urban Play
Droog Design
(Privately Held; Design industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Urban Play is an international open source urban design project in which, in its Amsterdam version, I invited 12 designers from around the world to design creative catalysts for people to personally interact with and contribute to along the waterfront of Amsterdam. It was the Creative City, made real.
In addition to the design project, I curated the largest exhibition of 3D / Guerrilla Urban Design, featuring 19 international artists.
Urban Play creates a series of catalysts to inspire people to be creative in the city, to stimulate debate about creativity in the city and the way this might differ from city to city. Future versions await... -
Media Analyst, Lecturer, Writer
scottburnham.com
(Think Tanks industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
Frequent global media commentary on creative innovation, most recently in media markets in Russia, India, US, Canada, Ukraine, and Argentina. I have consulted for companies ranging from Weiden + Kennedy to the London 2012 Olympic Committee, and maintain a portfolio of guest lecturing appointments and contributions to numerous publications.
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Creative Strategist
Montreal Biennale
(Design industry)
June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)
I devised and developed the concept for the 2009 Montreal Biennale, employing open source methodology to create the Biennale's content, as well as art directing their new logo, website and creative strategies working across design, art, architecture, film and music.
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Creative Consultant / Strategist
Duck and Weave UK
(International Affairs industry)
July 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 10 months)
London-based Creative Services consulting and strategy. Clients included Nokia, Weiden + Kennedy, MTV Europe
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Creative Director
Urbis
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)
June 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 2 months)
At Urbis I established and directed “Ill Communication”, one of Europe’s largest explorations of street art; ‘SuperCity’, a multi-disciplinary collaboration with architect Will Alsop to completely re-think the future of the urban environment; Urban Oasis with Berlin’s Office for Subversive Architecture, and At Home, a project created with designer Peter Saville and displayed on billboards throughout the city. Other exhibitions I curated and directed at Urbis include "The China Show", one of the first explorations of contemporary Chinese design and creativity, and "D&AD: the best in advertising and design", an exhibition of D&AD award winners.
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Founder
UrbanMade
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
December 1999 — June 2005 (5 years 7 months)
I created and developed a number of large-scale projects for organisations including London's National Theatre and The Royal Society for British Sculptors, and was commissioned by the cities of Barcelona and Prague for a number of projects.
Scott Burnham’s Education
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Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design
1997 — 1999
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Boston University
1987 — 1991
