All articles by Veronica simpson
Veronica simpson
Sea change: Resilient Flooding Schemes
By 2060, over a billion people will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding. But rather than embark on huge, hard infrastructure projects to prevent the worst, it seems the world’s leading engineers and landscape architects are joining forces with other disciplines – meteorologists and IT experts – to come up with far more nuanced, pragmatic solutions
Fixing a hole: Fixperts profile
Every idea has its day, and Fixperts is an idea whose momentum has truly arrived. In 2016, the open-source fixing evangelists picked up a major Blueprint award, and trialled a whole new teaching programme around making for arts-starved UK schools. With the BBC recently launching its Big Life Fix, showing design professionals as they tackle real-life problems, it appears that fixing as a universal act of ingenuity and resistance – countering the culture of empty consumerism and built-in obsolescence – is going mainstream
Brief Encounters: Public Art in Oslo
Veronica Simpson has been to Oslo, where she witnessed a different kind of public art.
Brief Encounters: Veronica Simpson
Veronica Simpson is in a field in Derbyshire to see the progress of a scheme for a furniture business that is literally growing up.
Review: Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern
The work of Robert Rauschenberg, on show at Tate Modern, seems to have predicted almost every contemporary art movement that followed, finds Veronica Simpson.
Tales of the Unexpected: the work of Bedwyr Williams
We step into the weird and wonderful world of Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams and his surreal staged performances
Brief Encounters: Underrated Places in the UK
Veronica Simpson assesses the importance of arts festivals being held in the UK’s under-appreciated cities. Are they making a difference?
Brief Encounters: Veronica Simpson Talks KICKSTART Design Competition
Sustainable design champion Veronica Simpson checks out the finalists of KI Europe’s first KICKSTART design competition
Something in the City: Design and culture in Dundee
With the V&A Dundee to open in 2018 the city of Dundee is getting ready to show its historic and modern design and cultural credentials.
Brief Encounters: Cycling to sustainability
From the perspective of a bicycle seat, Veronica Simpson concludes that Holland shows how investment in cycling, inventiveness and courage can pay massive benefits to cyclists and the planet