From 9 to 14 July 2012, Michiel de Lange and Marc Tuters developed and gave a six-day workshop ’Designing for Ownership’ at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. The workshop was part of a series of Summer at Strelka workshops aimed at a practical change in the city’s microrayons. Michiel de Lange also gave a closing talk at…

Michiel de Lange co-organized the two-day international  academic and public event The Citizen Scientist On The Move, that took place from 25 – 27 June 2012 at Utrecht University and Waag Society Amsterdam.

On June 6 2012 Michiel de Lange gave a presentation at the event ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses’ at Plymouth University in the UK.

On 26 February 2012 Martijn de Waal gave a Masterclass at the Berlage Institute during the one-week masterclass called “Localizing Networks: Physical terminals for web 2.0 engines“.

On 12 December 2011 Michiel de Lange took part in a kick-off meeting to help develop a new series of monthly ‘City Think Lab‘ evenings for 2012 at Pakhuis De Zwijger. These events are organized by Inspiring Cities and various partner organizations – among others The Mobile City.

On 8 December 2011 Michiel de Lange gave a ‘Place-Mat‘ talk at Ymere housing corporation in Amsterdam about social media and urban quality.

On November 23 2011 Michiel de Lange was invited as an expert during the e-tourism strategy day organized by LAgroup and Waag Society in Pakhuis De Zwijger.

On 22 November 2011 Michiel de Lange gave a talk called Hoe overleef ik de Mediastad? (“how do I survive the media city?”) for the Broodje Kennis series of lectures at Spui 25 in Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam).

Journalist Tracy Metz interviewed The Mobile City for an article in Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The article “Vertrouwde vreemden vinden elkaar in mobiele stad” (in Dutch) appeared in the newspaper on 27 February 2012.

For fall 2011, The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange developed an academic course called “The Media City” for bachelor 2 and pre-master students at Utrecht University. Martijn de Waal was one of the invited guest lecturers.

The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange participated in the panel “Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn“, about the future of locative media at ISEA2011 in Istanbul.

The Mobile City presented the study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’, on September 14 2011 at PICNIC in Amsterdam.