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Txt and the city
This is a commissioned article I wrote a few months ago for Canvas8 about the role of technologies in urban culture and its implications for brands. It is republished here with kind permission. Txt and the city Michiel de Lange Scope Today’s cities are pervaded by a variety of visible and invisible media technologies,…
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Ownership in the hybrid city: themes and examples (part 2)
A while ago our study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’ was published. The study, written in collaboration with Virtueel Platform, informs the event Social Cities of Tomorrow (14 − 17 Feb 2012). In the study we explore how digital media can strengthen ‘ownership’, that is, citizen engagement with collective urban issues and the capacity to…
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CALL for projects: Living Labs Global Award 2012. Deadline 17 Feb. 2012
We received a call for the Living Labs Global Award 2012, which may be of interest to you since many of the categories have something to do with smart uses of technologies: Since 2009, the Living Labs Global Award has worked together with cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas to present major societal challenges…
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Ownership in the hybrid city: themes and examples (part 1)
A while ago our study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’ was published. The study, written in collaboration with Virtueel Platform, informs the event Social Cities of Tomorrow (14 − 17 Feb 2012). In the study we explore how digital media can strengthen ‘ownership’, that is, citizen engagement with collective urban issues and the capacity to…
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Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media
(This article was published a few days ago on Engaging Cities, as a guest contribution) Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media Michiel de Lange – The Mobile City The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design…
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Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell – Divining a digital future (2011)
In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) again team up in an attempt to marry ethnography with ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) research. The book heavily builds on some of their previous collaborative work.…
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Crisis & chances for the enterprising architect – a report
Report of an evening for architects at the Chamber of Commerce, Amsterdam, 3 March 2011 Last week I attended the meeting “Chances for the enterprising architect” (PDF, announcement in Dutch). The evening was organized by the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with innovation network Syntens and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA). Topic of the…
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Review: Aurigi & De Cindio (2008) – Augmented urban spaces
Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Aldershot: Ashgate. (The introduction is a free read from the website). This book from 2008 had been on my desk for quite some time but finally I got around to do a review. It is listed in a recent…
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Why The Economist is wrong about ‘the internet of hype’
Some weeks ago The Economist published an article about ‘the internet of things’, with the provocative title ‘The internet of hype‘. The journalist, (nick)named [?] Schumpeter, was invited to attend the corporate event Fundación de la Innovación in Madrid. He raises a number of critical points against the idea that the internet of things is…
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Dissertation by TMC’s Michiel de Lange for download
Tuesday November 16 2010 Michiel de Lange successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. To download the dissertation, go here >>.
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First reports expert meeting ‘Designing the Hybrid City’ published
The first reports of the expert meeting ‘Designing the Hybrid City’ are available now. These reports were written by architect Daan Roggeveen and journalist Michiel Hulshof (Go West project). =edit= Videos of the sessions are now online as well. Audio quality is so-so however, so be warned…