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Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers (guest post by Katía Truijen)
Occasionally we post contributions from guest authors. This one below is a section from the interesting MA thesis by Katía Truijen. Enjoy! === Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers Katía Truijen – new media researcher This article is an excerpt of the MA thesis ‘Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices’. Give…
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Invitation to mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage” 27 Sept. 2013
The Mobile City and The New Institute in collaboration with CMoDA are very happy to invite you to the mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage”, which is part of the full-day event “The Dao of Being Smart“, organized by CMoDA Beijing. Below is the flyer and invitation for the full event.…
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Playing against vacancy: architects and game developers create games for urban change
About the project How can temporary playful interventions be used to engage people with the issue of vacancy? The Mobile City is a partner in the new project Rezone Playful Interventions. In this project three teams, each composed of an architect and a game designer, collaborate to create a temporary playful urban intervention for the…
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Public Space & The Public Good
Public Space & The Public Good (Publieke Ruimte Publieke Zaak in Dutch) is the title of a new research project that The Mobile City will be part of. The project is initiated by Bart Lammers, Arnold Reijndorp and Simon Franke and it investigates the relation between public space and the public good. Both have been…
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Collegedag Publieke Zaak Publieke Ruimte (in Dutch) Den Haag: April 16.
This post is an announcement for a conference that is part of the research program Public Space & The Public Good, in which The Mobile City participates. The conference (and the announcement below) are in Dutch. We will have more on this program on our site in the near future, see here for a brief…
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TALK
On 6 March 2013 Michiel de Lange gave a talk about Play & the City in Den Bosch at architecture center BAI. More info here >>.
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Eindhoven Hackable World City: speculating on future investments for the city
A while ago we were invited by Amsterdam based architecture and planning firm One Architecture to collaborate on a research project about the possible future of urban planning and policy in the Netherlands. The project was commissioned by Deltametropool Network for Metropolitan Development. One of the outcomes of this collaboration is the publication ‘Eindhoven Hackable World City‘…
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CONFERENCE Media City: spectacular/ordinary/contested 15-17 May 2013 Helsinki
I hadn’t seen this one earlier, looks good. This adds another event to an already busy spring 2013: * MediaCities, 3-5 May 2013, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; * New Media & Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance Delft 16-17 May 2013 * HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions, 23-25 May 2013 Athens Greece * Communication…
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RADIO
On 12 December 2012 Michiel de Lange was one of the participants in the public radio show Hoe?Zo!, about play, games and culture (in Dutch).
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WORKSHOP
One Architecture asked Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange to assist in a workshop organized by Deltametropool about the future of metropolitan Netherlands on 27 − 28 November 2012.
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INTERVIEW
On 28 November 2012 Play the City interviewed Michiel de Lange about smart cities, play, and ownership, as part of their Majority Report initiative.
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INTERVIEW
Mid-October 2012 TU Delft’s Polis/Atlantis Magazine interviewed Michiel de Lange for the 23.2 fall edition about digital media and the future of urban design (pdf).