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Invitation “Binnen de lijnen”, exploring public space through participatory media art, Oct. 1 2014 13:00, Den Haag
[this announcement is in Dutch only, sorry..] The Mobile City participeert in het project Publieke Ruimte – Publieke Zaak van Trancity en partners. Als onderdeel van dit project hebben wij LUSTlab gevraagd om een interventie te ontwerpen die het gebruik van publieke ruimte in de Haagse Schilderswijk zichtbaar en daarmee bespreekbaar maakt. Op 1 oktober…
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NWO KIEM funds new research program “Hackable Metropolis Amsterdam”
We are happy to announce that NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) has granted funding to our research project “Hackable Metropolis Amsterdam: investigating the future of city-making in urban lab Buiksloterham”. The project is a collaboration between Michiel de Lange (project leader; Utrecht University, The Mobile City) & Martijn de Waal (University of Amsterdam,…
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Workshop with Eric Gordon urban gaming & civil participation on digital media platforms, 24 June 2014
As a follow-up event on Eric Gordon’s public lecture on June 23, we’re co-organizing a small closed workshop session with Eric Gordon and a number of urban game professionals on June 24, 2014. Workshop with Eric Gordon about urban gaming & civil participation on digital media platforms June 24, 2014 10:00 − 13:30 at FreedomLab,…
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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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.
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Embedded Researcher – Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis
Over the last few years, digital media has started to change the experience of the city in many ways. First, various parties in the city have started to produce, collect and publish lots of data about urban life. These data can be used to get new, real-time insights in social and spatial conditions, offering opportunities…
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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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Invitation to mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage” 27 Sept. 2013
The Mobile City and The New Institute in collaboration with CMoDA are very happy to invite you to the mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage”, which is part of the full-day event “The Dao of Being Smart“, organized by CMoDA Beijing. Below is the flyer and invitation for the full event.…
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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…