Meeting @ IBI

I believe I did impress IBI today. Mario Bozzo met with me. He's a fellow Canadian from Hamilton and educated in planning from Waterloo. In London, IBI focuses more on (the aesthetics of) transportation technology. It's very interesting. It's by no means a traditional planning job but it would involve the application of my planning and design skills into a slightly different realm. They do work with traffic cameras and try to unify them between boroughs and minimise their visual impact on the streetscape. They're working on creating a new transportation hub [for Euro Star?] at King's Cross station. In the long term, they're hoping these projects will lead to regeneration work of transportation hub areas... like the Union Station work in Toronto. It sounds pretty interesting, even though it's not what I expected.

Mario was impressed by my thesis project and thinks that my skills would be great for IBI. However, he's waiting to see if a couple of clients come on board or not. If they do, I should have a job. Unfortunately, he won't know for a couple of weeks. So in the meantime, I will continue looking and perhaps pick up a job for which I am over-qualified to get some cash.