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WORKSHOP: LAYAR DAY L.A. Augmented Reality Symposium & Workshop, May 20 Los Angeles
LAYAR DAY L.A. Augmented Reality Symposium & Workshop Friday, May 20, 2011 from 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM (PT) Pasadena, CA http://layardayla-estw.eventbrite.com/ On Friday May 20, 2011 Layar, the world’s leader in mobile augmented reality will host LAYAR DAY L.A., a full day of hacking space and time in the heart of Los Angeles with…
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Call & Symposium: Animation of Public Space through the Arts 28-30 September, Coimbra (Portugal)
SYMPOSIUM: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability http://www.encatc.org/cult-management-city/?p=109 28-30 September 2011, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, together with the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance…
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Website change: fresh look and new direction for The Mobile City
You may notice that we have changed the look and feel of our website. In part this is a functional and cosmetic change. The old blog had become somewhat cluttered and was quite slow to load. We restructured the content in a more logical and intuitive way, with menus and clear section headers. We applied…
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Bibliography
Benkler, Yochai (2006) The Wealth of Networks. New Haven: Yale University Press. Bleecker, J. (2006). A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things. Near Future Laboratory. 2010. Boyd, D. (2008). Taken out of Context. Information Management and Systems. Berkeley, UC Berkeley. PhD. Bratton, B. and N.…
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Book Launch Sentient City Rotterdam May 14 2011
The Mobile City takes part in the Dutch launch of Sentient City Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space, edited by Mark Shepard. The Mobile City’s Martijn de Waal contributed to the book, and can be read here: THE URBAN CULTURE OF SENTIENT CITIES: FROM AN INTERNET OF THINGS TO A PUBLIC SPHERE OF THINGS…
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BOOK LAUNCH
The Mobile City contributed to the book Sentient City, edited by Mark Shepard. On May 14 2011 we give a presentation and moderate the Dutch book launch, organized by V2_ in Rotterdam.
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RESEARCH PROJECT
In the spring of 2011, The Mobile City carried out a research project for Virtueel Platform. We researched how digital media design can provide citizens with a sense of ‘ownership’ with regard to their urban surroundings.
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Symposium: Mobility and Location in Social Networks, April 29 2011, ITU Copenhagen
Our friend Adriana De Souza e Silva sent us this announcement for what looks to be an interesting event, with great invited speakers: The first research symposium of the Center for Network Culture will take place on April 29 2001 at the IT University of Copenhagen. The symposium’s main foci are the mobile and…
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MODERATION
On March 23 and 24 2011, TMC’s Michiel de Lange moderated and co-organized two evenings about mobile gaming for Mediamatic’s Mobfest.
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Expo: Farming the City, 25.03.11 − 07.05.11, ARCAM, Amsterdam
Urban farming has been hot for quite some time. Amsterdam-based architecture institute ARCAM will present an exposition about the potential of urban farming for sustainable food production, food culture, and social cohesion. … And they’ve built a ‘Farming the City’ bicycle App for iPhone & Android, using NAi’s UAR platform. Farmingthecity.net, an online urban agriculture platform, will…
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Workshop: Pervasive Urban Applications, 12 June 2011, San Francisco
This workshop is organized by MIT’s Senseable City Lab, Newcastle Culture Lab, and IBM. Deadline for paper has already passed…: The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) will take place in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing in San Francisco, CA, USA on June 12-15, 2011. Over the past decade, the…
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Event: Augmented Reality Check, 26 April 2011, Philadelphia
This one reached us via the Mobilities Research and Policy Center blog: Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now April 26th 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm Van Pelt Auditorium Philadelphia Museum of Art In this panel, cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology and science, the real and the imaginary, offer us…