Re-thinking user-centered design with new forms of end user empowerment A Workshop at CHITALY (http://www.architettura.uniss.it/chitaly2011/index.php/eng) Date: 13 September 2011 – Alghero   Organisers: Cristiano Storni, Liam Bannon, Luigina Ciolfi (University of Limerick, Ireland), Francesca Bria (Imperial College London, UK) For more information please visit: http://chitaly-empowerment-workshop.blogspot.com/ Background This workshop will explore the emerging paradigm of end-user empowerment…

This is an interesting initiative: Mike Lee is trying to convince all app makers to come down to Amsterdam to set up shop here. Hear Hear! To get the energy flowing, he is starting a weekly lecture series over lunchtime on wednesday’s, starting next week: See here for more details: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=198 As part of the…

Time Thursday, June 30 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location De Verdieping Wibautstraat 127 Amsterdam, Netherlands “The synthesis of architecture and network technologies.” We hope to see many of you at our first iteration of the Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam. It is our combined pleasure to introduce you to the speakers that will engage the…

International Street Games Festival 17-19 June – HAU2 Berlin http://invisibleplayground.com/#you-are-go Cowgirls, penguins and space travel at Mehringplatz! Gentrification as gameification! Alternate universes, dancing patrols and adventures in absolutely stunning life-like graphics… Inspired by festivals such as Come Out & Play (New York), Hide & Seek Weekender(London), and igFest (Bristol), You Are GO! brings to Berlin a postdigital play…

Here’s another conference that looks very interesting with a great line-up. The focus of the conference lies beyond the scale of the city, but the issues involved are similar to some of the themes that we are addressing here. And for those of you who won’t be able to make it to San Diego within…

Our colleagues from Spain have put together what seems a highly interesting seminar and workshop: Visualizar 11: Understanding Infrastructures. International workshop and seminar 14.06.2011 – 01.07.2011 Place: Medialab-Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid From June 14 to July 1 Visualizar’11: Understanding Infrastructures offers an international project development workshop and a theoretical seminar where selected…

Sharon Switzer sent us a call for submissions for the Toronto Urban Film Festival, which uses outdoor screens in public settings: — The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), unique in North America, is a public film festival that reaches 1.3 million daily commuters on the ONESTOP TTC subway platform screens. This year’s guest judge is Atom…

OPEN-CREATIVE-SERIOUS-FUN Transdigital Seminar 2011 – GENT http://www.transdigital.org/events/transdigital-seminar-2011-ghent Transdigital ends its third season with a two-day seminar and presentation of Cookbook # 2,  the yearbook of the Transdigital project.  This two-day across-the-border conference links visits to the labs of Timelab and IBBT to a series of presentations, lectures and demonstrations for the inspiration of artists, developers,…

This is on a short notice, but looks interesting nevertheless. Today the Future Everything festival kicks of in Manchester, and from tomorrow (May 12th) there is a conference where themes related to the Mobile City will be discussed. Go check it out if you are around. http://futureeverything.org/ideas-overview/ The FutureEverything Conference takes place on 12th and 13th…

Science and Technology Studies are taking up urban issues as well, as can be seen from this announcement: STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology – in collaboration with the University of Sassari, Faculty ofPolitical Sciences and Faculty of Architecture – organizes the Summer School “Cities, Infrastructures, Networks”, to be held in…

If you happen to be in Berlin in a few days from now and speak German, than this one should be interesting too: Blogging the City – Neue Öffentlichkeiten für Stadt und Architektur Konferenz am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 in den Uferhallen, 13357 Berlin Das Internet verändert die Auseinandersetzung mit städtischen Themen, die Informationsverteilung, wie Akteure…

This one looks highly interesting. Wish we could be there. (And if you are interested in this theme, do check out this article on The Mobile City: Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy ) —- Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected World// June 9-10,…