Umbrellium (2013)

Umbrellium is an award-winning design and build studio dedicated to transforming urban environments and getting communities meaningfully involved.

Founded by Usman Haque in 2007 as Haque Design + Research to work on interactive architecture and community platforms, the company relaunched as Umbrellium in 2013 with a mission to create 'engaging cities'.

Umbrellium website, 2021

Umbrellium works with ambitious cities and organisations round the world to create everything from spectacular interactive architecture and participatory platforms to dynamic streetscapes and urban technology infrastructure.

Umbrellium case studies, 2014

Umbrellium's mission in the coming years is to respond tactically to the climate crisis by reinforcing connections between human, natural and urban systems.

Umbrellium projects, 2021

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Some of Umbrellium's projects

Starling Crossing - interactive pedestrian crossing

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WearAQ - toolset and community engagement methodology designed for people to act collectively on air quality issues

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Urban Innovation Toolkit - for helping plan urban technology projects by methodically organising and joining up problems, stakeholders, methods, evidence and impact

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WearON - platform that makes it quick and easy for designer and coders to build connected and 'sociable' wearables that interact with each others' data