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Playing for the Future: event April 17 2014 about play, games and urban (re)developments
Last year, The Mobile City partnered in the project “Rezone Playful Interventions” about the use of playful design strategies to repurpose vacant spaces. In this project three teams composed of an architect and a game studio collaborated and created a temporary playful urban intervention for a near-vacant factory at the edge of the city center…
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“Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design” – First Monday article
The Mobile City contributed a paper to the very interesting special November 2013 issue of First Monday called “Waves, Bits & Bricks: Media and The Social Production of Urban Space“. How has media affected cities in real, concrete terms? How do “bits” and “waves” become “bricks”? This large special issue, edited by Matteo Tarantino and Simone…
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Report workshop day2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage”
Report workshop day 2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage” Under the motto better late than never, the second part of the “Made By Us” Beijing Design Week workshop report. As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA have organized…
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Made By Us: using smart technologies for industrial heritage. Public evening November 7 2013, The New Institute, Rotterdam
On November 7 2013 The New Institute, the Netherlands’ new national institute for the creative industry, hosts an evening (in Dutch) about using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage. The evening is part of the larger project Made By Us, a collaboration between The new Institute and The Mobile City, to develop an ongoing dialogue around the concept of…
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Report workshop day1 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage”
As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA have organized a two-day workshop during the Beijing Design Week. In this workshop participants from various professional and national backgrounds address the reuse of former industrial plants through digital media technologies. The site we worked…
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“Made By Us”: new program about industrial heritage and smart & social cities, Beijing/NL/Shenzhen
We are happy to announce Made By Us, a new project The Mobile City is partnering in with The New Institute. Made By Us is a six-month research-by-design program investigating creative reuses of former industrial plants. The challenge is to help design smart media interventions that will engage stakeholders in postindustrial heritage planning for abandoned factories. The…
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“The smart city you love to hate: Exploring the role of affect in hybrid urbanism” Hybrid City 2 conference abstract
Next week Martijn and I both attend the second Hybrid City conference “subtle rEvolutions” from 23 − 25 May in Athens, Greece. Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information…
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Rezone the game: playing for urban transformation
This is an essay I recently wrote for The Bosch Architecture Initiative (BAI) and Digital Workplace (DW) about Rezone, an applied urban game they developed to address the issue of vacancy in the city of Den Bosch. In the near future we start a collaboration with them in a project about urban gaming and vacant…
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Reinventing ownership: Ruimtevolk Expo 2012 about the messy future of urban design
Thursday 29 November 2012 the event Ruimtevolk Expedition 2012 took place. Ruimtevolk (‘spatial folk’) is a well-read Dutch online platform for spatial and urban design professionals. Venue Trouw Amsterdam, one of Amsterdam’s cultural hotspots, was packed with urban professionals, policy makers, and researchers. The event theme was “new ownership in spatial planning”. Since The Mobile…
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Workshop report “How to engage citizens with the help of digital media”, Urbanism Week 2012 TU Delft
Introduction A while back I was invited to give a talk and host a small workshop during the 2012 edition of Urbanism Week. This is a yearly event organized by Polis Platform for Urbanism, the study association for Master’s students in Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. This year’s theme…
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Workshop reports ‘Designing for Ownership’ at Strelka Institute, Moscow
From 9 − 14 July 2012 The Mobile City (in this case Michiel de Lange in collaboration with Marc Tuters) developed and gave a six-day workshop ’Designing for Ownership’ at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. This workshop was built on the approach we developed for the ‘Social Cities of Tomorrow’ workshop that took place 14 – 16…
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The Mobile City goes Moscow: 6-day workshop “Designing for Ownership” 9-14 July 2012, Strelka Institute
The Mobile City is honored to have been invited to give a workshop at the young and very ambitious Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia. The workshop is part of the Strelka Summer Program “Agents of Change“. In a series of workshops and lectures the question is addressed how citizens can…