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Christopher Burman is an urban technologist, artist & co-founder of Heat Island (www.heat-island.com), a collaborative design studio focused on architecture and urban ecology.

His work as an artist and designer explores the politics of technology and digital production through the use of installation, software and audio and has been shown internationally including at MANIFESTA12, Palermo, KW Institute, Berlin, Jupiter Woods, London and Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal.

He was previously Director of Digital Strategy at Strelka KB, Moscow after being a core-team member at Pachube (now Xively), a platform for storing and sharing sensor data and connecting IOT devices acquired by Google in 2018, for which he was nominated for a Design of the Year award by The Design Museum, London.

He is currently a Lecturer at The Bartlett, UCL and has been a visitor tutor at various international art & design schools including The Royal College of Art (RCA), The Strelka Institute, Nottingham University, Moscow Architecture School (MArch)

He was a co-founding member of STORE Projects.

Heat Island

Heat Island was formed as a collaboration between a group of architects, engineers and designers in London, as a space in which to work on projects related to the climate crisis. We're interested in the types of systemic and large scale change that are necessary to move cities, buildings and infrastructures towards sustainable limits. 

www.heat-island.com

STORE Projects

He was a founding member of STORE Projects, a London-based association of artists, architects and designers. STORE is composed of three core elements: an educational programme of art and architecture courses, wide-ranging public events and exhibitions, and a socially engaged design practice.

www.storeprojects.org