Author: Martijn de Waal

  • Towards a Citizen’s centered IoT. Panel report at Thingscon 2017.

    Towards a Citizen’s centered IoT. Panel report at Thingscon 2017.

    How can we develop an IoT from a citizen’s perspective? What kind of projects have empowered citizens and what does it take to get these kind of projects of the ground? Those were the central questions we addressed at our panel at Thingscon 2017 that I had co-organized with Iskander Smit. Point of departure was…

  • Digital Cities 9 Workshop on Hackable Cities Programme

    Digital Cities 9 Workshop on Hackable Cities Programme

    Digital Cities 9 Workshop “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change” 27 June 2015, University of Limerick   The Digital Cities workshop series started in 1999, and is the longest running academic workshop series that has followed the intertwined development of cities and digital technologies. Earlier years have seen papers presented at Digital…

  • Lecture (11/6): Hybrid City Storytelling – Dimitris Charitos

    Lecture (11/6): Hybrid City Storytelling – Dimitris Charitos

    We are pleased to host our good friend and partner in various projects Dimtris Charitos of the Athens Hybrid City Conference here in Amsterdam. For everyone interested, he will give a lecture on hybrid city storytelling. Loading… Lecture Designing immersive and hybrid spatial interfaces and experiences Dimitris Charitos (University of Athens / Hybrid City Conference…

  • The Mobile City zoekt Stagiaire

    The Mobile City zoekt Stagiaire

    The Hackable City, Collaborative Citymaking in Urban Living Lab Buiksloterham Wat is de rol van nieuwe media in het betrekken van burgers in een ‘hackable’ proces van stadmaken? En wat zijn de mogelijkheden en uitdagen voor burgers, ontwerp professionals in dit proces? De Universiteit van Amsterdam start samen met One Architecture, The Mobile City en…

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  • Lecture Eric Gordon: Play, Games and Power (Amsterdam 23/6)

    Lecture Eric Gordon: Play, Games and Power (Amsterdam 23/6)

    The VU Graduate School of Humanities in collaboration with NICA (and with the involvement of The Mobile City) organizes a lecture and masterclass with American researcher and game designer Eric Gordon.

  • We are looking for an intern ‘smart cities’ (Dutch speaking)

    We are looking for an intern ‘smart cities’ (Dutch speaking)

    This fall, together with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency The Mobile City will take part in a research project called Smart Cities in a Smart Society. We are looking for an intern that would like to assist us in this exciting new project!

  • Workshop Athens Hackable Metropolis May 5-7 2014

    Workshop Athens Hackable Metropolis May 5-7 2014

    We are in Athens from May5-7 2014 organizing a workshop together with our friends from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athensth and the Hybrid City Conferences, as part of our research into Hackable Cities.

  • The City as Interface

    The City as Interface. How New Media Are Changing The City is a book written by The Mobile City co-founder Martijn de Waal. Read More

  • The City as Interface

    The City as Interface

    On the face of it, the rise of ‘urban media’ is mainly a practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these technologies also presents us with an important philosophical issue: How do they influence the way that the city functions as a community? This is…

  • Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum’s GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium

    Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum’s GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium

    Last week I visited the exhibition Move Still Move at Rento Brattinga Galerie in Amsterdam, an intriguing exploration of gps technology as an artistic medium by the artist duoPolakvanBekkum.

  • Made By Us @ Shenzhen Biennale

    Made By Us @ Shenzhen Biennale

    We are excited to announce that the exhibition Made by Us that we have curated in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut will open on Dec 7 2013 at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture in Shenzhen.