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Festival: Beyond Media – Visions on Architecture and Media, Florence July 9-17 2009
The BEYOND MEDIA festival is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media. The ninth edition of the Florence festival is titled “VISIONS”. and will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence,…
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Event: World-Information City, Paris May 30-31, 2009
World-Information City Paris 2009 is an international, two day conference focusing on four major themes within the wide field of new urban geographies: mobility, global flows and local dynamics, the remaking of urban spaces through new strategies of conflict and security, and new approaches to map distributed action in space. Mobility – of people, goods,…
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Event: Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul
Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul With over half of the entire global population living in cities we are facing an imminent and immense shift in how we live, work, and play. This is particularly so with the current and future development of cities as ubiquitous network environments. The city is connections, a technosocial…
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CFP & Event: From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement
From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen – A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia June 19th, 2009 Workshop position papers…
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Event: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester)
Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester) The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and people networks create a buzzing environment that’s alive…
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MIT HTC Forum 2009 “architectural criticism in an age of digital networks”, April 7 2009, MIT Cambridge MA
(Via http://varnelis.net/blog/mit_htc_forum_2009) Javier Arbona, Mark Jarzombek, and Kazys Varnelis Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks Tuesday, April 7 6:30 pm Room 3-133 “Has a blog actually had a significant impact on a building in the process of being designed or built? What was…
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CFP: IEEE Consumer Games Conference, London UK, Aug 25-28 2009
The Mobile City participant Martin Rieser sent us the following announcement: EEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovation Conference The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09) aims to be a platform for innovative research in games technologies and to make these technologies more accessible to academia and industry. The conference will…
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PhD position @LSE (London) “Mobility and ubiquitous computing”
This open PhD position may be of interest to some of our readers: Mobility and ubiquitous computing The mobility@lse research unit (mobility.lse.ac.uk), led by Dr Carsten Sorensen (www.carstensorensen.com), has since 2001 studied organisational and societal implications of mobile and ubiquitous information technology. The research has over the years built up a large body of research…
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CFP: mSociety + mGOV + mDevelopment 2-3-4 September, 2009, Barcelona, Spain
Three paralel conferences are organized in Barcelona Spain: 1) mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society 2) EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government 3) mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development These conferences will be held during 2-3-4 September, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain as part of Mobile…
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CFP: ACM2009 “Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era” 30 Sept–2 Oct 2009 Tampere, Finland
Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from September 30th – 2nd October, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business, social and…
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Call for papers:Intelligent Environments 09 @ Barcelona, July 20-21, Technical University of Catalonia
This year the conference on Intelligent Environments 09 which will take place in Barcelona on July 20-21st at the Technical University of Catalonia. More info in: http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie09 I would like to invite those of you who are active in the field of Intelligent Environments and particularly on the design of intelligent spaces for supporting human…
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An Atlas of Radical Cartography (14/2-22/3, Casco Utrecht)
‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography’ 15 February – 22 March 2009 Opening & A Mapping Forum: Saturday 14 February 17:00-20:00 “…to make maps is to organize oneself, to generate new connections and to be able to transform the material and immaterial conditions in which we find ourselves immersed. It isn’t the territory but it definitely…