Impakt Festival 2013: Capitalism Catch 22 Impakt Online: On Group Formations Impakt Onlie Curators Sabine Niederer and Raymond Taudin Chabot are looking for artists who want to create or showcase work as part of the upcomming Impakt Festival related to the festivals’ theme Group Formation. Where the early 2000s were often characterized as the ‘Age…

This post is an announcement for a conference that is part of the research program Public Space & The Public Good, in which The Mobile City participates. The conference (and the announcement below) are in Dutch. We will have more on this program on our site in the near future, see here for a brief…

I hadn’t seen this one earlier, looks good. This adds another event to an already busy spring 2013: * MediaCities, 3-5 May 2013, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; * New Media & Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance Delft 16-17 May 2013 * HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions, 23-25 May 2013 Athens Greece * Communication…

Help solve urban pressing issues with this call: Barcelona / San Francisco , 19 November 2012:  Today, twenty-one global cities and Citymart.com announce the LLGA|Cities Pilot the Future program to discover and implement the most promising solutions that meet pressing social and urban challenges. Over the coming 18 months, the initiative will evaluate around 1,000 submissions, and implement real-life pilots in all partner cities to improve the…

Since we are one of the keynote speaker’s at this event, we wholeheartedly recommend this call for papers! http://www.otb.tudelft.nl/en/study/seminars-and-conferences/websites-internationale-congressen/international-conference-using-ict-social-media-and-mobile-technologies/ International Conference Using ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance   Date and venue May 16-17, 2013 Library at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Conference Theme and…

Spring 2013 is going to be a busy period for media city conferences..: An international conference organized by the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of Communications Studies in association with the ECREA Media and the City Temporary Working Group. Where: Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds When: June 14-15 2013 **Confirmed keynote speakers** Professor Carole…

Another great event in May 2013..: International Conference, Workshops and Exhibition University at Buffalo, The State University of New York May 3-5, 2013 The fourth MediaCity reflects on pluralities and globalities, on MediaCities everywhere. What new lines of inquiry and emergent relations between urbanity and digital media are found in non-Western cities, in post-Capitalist cities,…

This should be a great event. The Mobile City have been asked into the scientific committee. The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events 23-25 May 2013 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the…

This looks like an interesting series of evenings + design challenge about Augmented Reality, Quantified Self, and Internet of Things, organized by a number of organizations: DATE Saturday, 6 October 2012 TIME 12:00-17:00 WHERE Impakt Headquarters DATE Saturday, 13 October 2012 TIME 12:00-17:00 WHERE Impakt Headquarters DATE Saturday, 20 October 2012 TIME 12:00-17:00 WHERE Impakt…

The International New Town Institute is organizing a very promising conference in Rotterdam on september 27. The main theme is the privatization of cities. With South Korea’s ‘advanced smart & connected community’ New Songdo as one of its case studies. Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 9:00 – 19:00 Place: NAI, Rotterdam, Netherlands Cost: €200…

Fans of the work by Otto Neurath, here’s a competition that might interest you:   The magazine ARCH+ and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation announce the competition Out of Balance – Kritik der Gegenwart. Information Design after Otto Neurath The competition is directed towards * Members of the design disciplines like: architecture, urban and regional planning, graphic design,…