Latour’s ‘Parliament of Things’ is being put to practice with this event: Who owns the data being generated by the world around you? In March 2011, we put forward the first “Internet of Things Bill of Rights”, which aimed to define the relationship between people and the Internet of Things. It has morphed along the…

Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data A symposium with Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Omar Khan, Laura Kurgan, Helen Nissenbaum, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard, and Kazys Varnelis Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square 3 AIA and New York…

Another interesting event happening end of this month in Germany: REVOLUTION IN THE SPACE INBETWEEN Revolution, participation & discourse between digital and urban public spaces A conference from die urbanauten and the Ev. Akademie Tutzing Date: 23. – 25.3.2012 Place: Ev. Akademie Tutzing near Munich It is impossible to think about the future of the city, urban society…

Recently, two colleagues at Utrecht University published books that might be relevant to readers interested in mobile media technologies, communication and urban culture. The books have been published as Open Access (with Creative Commons Licenses). Their books appear in the MediaMatters series at Amsterdam University Press. In addition to the print versions, which should be…

This is an interesting call, many overlaps with the ‘commons’ themes addressed in our Social Cities of Tomorrow conference: Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012). In recent years, there has been a nascent movement of designers acting on…

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…

Something is in the air.. This is a call from MAS Context. MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields and different perspectives who, together, instigate the debate. Our next…

The use of Bentham’s panopticon in analyses of urban new media is widespread (we’ve done it on this blog here and here). For Foucault the circular prison structure became the emblem of modern institutionalized ‘disciplinary societies’. Despite Deleuze’s observation in ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control‘ (1990) of a shift from top-down induced self-disciplining to distributed peer-to-peer types…

HOME SENSE or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’ http://www.v2.nl/events/one-day-conference-the-internet-of-things What are the consequences and questions for our home-environment in relation to the Internet of Things?  This one day conference will bring together a variety of researchers throughout the diverse disciplines. We will present and discuss the current status of the Internet of Things for…

The Amsterdam #IoT community is organizing this workshop, with a focus on air quality data: Where’s the data? Technology has progressed to the point that we as citizens with concerns or interests can leverage open source hardware and software together with cloud platforms like Pachube to quickly and cheaply build the systems we need to…

Marcus Foth is giving a talk about open data and urbanism: Program Your City: Legal and Governance Issues of an Urban Integrated Open Data API Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor RSVP required for those attending in person via the form below This event…

The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard  http://stroom.nl/activiteiten/lezing_symposium.php?l_id=2472204 Donderdag 27 oktober 2011, 20 uur Locatie: Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag Voertaal: Engels Entreeprijs: € 5,- (overmaken op ING-rekening 605409 van Stroom Den Haag onder vermelding van de naam van de lezing) Reserveren verplicht: zie formulier onderaan deze pagina De Amerikaan Mark Shepard is kunstenaar, architect en onderzoeker die in de praktijk voorbij…