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EVENT: Augment It! 17 May 2012, Trouw Amsterdam
Many interesting events happening at the same time right now in the Netherlands… 4 – 6 pm (‘Poetry on the Screen program’) / 8 pm – 1 am (Augment It! program) presale € 10 | door € 10 | trouwe honden € 9 | club 16.00 – 01.00 | doors open 16.00 The Stedelijk Museum and…
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SYMPOSIUM & BOOK LAUNCH: Beyond Data, Rotterdam (DEAF Festival), May 18 2012
This year’s DEAF-festival features a number of interesting events, amongst which the launch of the book Beyond Data. May 18, 2012, 18:00-19:00 Location: Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam, NL Presented by Angela Plohman, Baltan Laboratories and Melinda Sipos, Kitchen Budapest Baltan Laboratories and Kitchen Budapest are pleased to launch a new joint publication focusing on their recent…
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CALL: Hack the City Workshop, Dublin July 11 – July 26, 2012
This is an interesting “City Hacking” collaboration between Medialab Prado Madrid and the Science Gallery Dublin: Call for Projects: Interactivos?’12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs Science Gallery (Dublin) and Medialab-Prado (Madrid) are issuing an Open Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during Interactivos?’12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs (July 11…
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CfP/WORKSHOP: Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses. 6 June 2012, Plymouth University UK
Katharine Willis send us an announcement for this interesting event: Remediating Urban Space Symposium Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses Wednesday 6th June 2012 10.00– 16.30 Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK Keynote: Mark Shepard, University of Buffalo Communication technologies remediate everyday urban life, resulting in subtle shifts in the spatial, temporal, scalar and material processes which are ‘all too…
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EVENT: Open Internet of Things Assembly, June 16-17 2012 London
Latour’s ‘Parliament of Things’ is being put to practice with this event: Who owns the data being generated by the world around you? In March 2011, we put forward the first “Internet of Things Bill of Rights”, which aimed to define the relationship between people and the Internet of Things. It has morphed along the…
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SYMPOSIUM: Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data. 28 April New York
Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data A symposium with Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Omar Khan, Laura Kurgan, Helen Nissenbaum, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard, and Kazys Varnelis Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square 3 AIA and New York…
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Conference: Revolution im Zwischenraum, 23-25 March 2012, Tutzing Germany
Another interesting event happening end of this month in Germany: REVOLUTION IN THE SPACE INBETWEEN Revolution, participation & discourse between digital and urban public spaces A conference from die urbanauten and the Ev. Akademie Tutzing Date: 23. – 25.3.2012 Place: Ev. Akademie Tutzing near Munich It is impossible to think about the future of the city, urban society…
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Two recent Open Access publications about mobile media
Recently, two colleagues at Utrecht University published books that might be relevant to readers interested in mobile media technologies, communication and urban culture. The books have been published as Open Access (with Creative Commons Licenses). Their books appear in the MediaMatters series at Amsterdam University Press. In addition to the print versions, which should be…
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Natalie Jeremijenko at the Social Cities of Tomorrow.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist. She is also the director of the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, a space where environmental issues are approached as health concerns. In her clinic the (im)patients leave the consultation not with a series of pharmaceuticals but instead with a prescription for actions that could have an impact…
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Designing Trust
by AURELIE The event Social Cities of Tomorrow that took place last Friday opened up with a series of workshops at the ARCAM (Architecture Center of Amsterdam) earlier this week and brought together local stakeholder organizations and participants from different backgrounds to brainstorm on urban design and media technologies. It was organized by The Mobile City…
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Usman Haque: Sensors and Napkins
by LAURENT HUBEEK After three long days of workshops, on Friday it was finally time for the Social Cities of Tomorrow conference event. Usman Haque was one of the day’s keynote speakers. He is perhaps best known as the founder of Pachube, an online hub for open and distributed data collection for the Internet of Things.…
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Social Cities of Tomorrow (Amsterdam 2012)
Social Cities of Tomorrow (Amsterdam 2012)