If you happen to be in Berlin in a few days from now and speak German, than this one should be interesting too: Blogging the City – Neue Öffentlichkeiten für Stadt und Architektur Konferenz am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 in den Uferhallen, 13357 Berlin Das Internet verändert die Auseinandersetzung mit städtischen Themen, die Informationsverteilung, wie Akteure…

This one looks highly interesting. Wish we could be there. (And if you are interested in this theme, do check out this article on The Mobile City: Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy ) —- Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected World// June 9-10,…

LAYAR DAY L.A. Augmented Reality Symposium & Workshop Friday, May 20, 2011 from 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM (PT) Pasadena, CA http://layardayla-estw.eventbrite.com/ On Friday May 20, 2011 Layar, the world’s leader in mobile augmented reality will host LAYAR DAY L.A., a full day of hacking space and time in the heart of Los Angeles with…

SYMPOSIUM: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability http://www.encatc.org/cult-management-city/?p=109 28-30 September 2011, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal   CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, together with the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance…

You may notice that we have changed the look and feel of our website. In part this is a functional and cosmetic change. The old blog had become somewhat cluttered and was quite slow to load. We restructured the content in a more logical and intuitive way, with menus and clear section headers. We applied…

The Mobile City takes part in the Dutch launch of Sentient City Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space, edited by Mark Shepard. The Mobile City’s Martijn de Waal contributed to the book, and can be read here:  THE URBAN CULTURE OF SENTIENT CITIES: FROM AN INTERNET OF THINGS TO A PUBLIC SPHERE OF THINGS…

Our friend Adriana De Souza e Silva sent us this announcement for what  looks to be an interesting event, with great invited speakers:   The first research symposium of the Center for Network Culture will take place on April 29 2001 at the IT University of Copenhagen. The symposium’s main foci are the mobile and…

Urban farming has been hot for quite some time. Amsterdam-based architecture institute ARCAM will present an exposition about the potential of urban farming for sustainable food production, food culture, and social cohesion.  … And they’ve built a ‘Farming the City’ bicycle App for iPhone & Android, using NAi’s UAR platform. Farmingthecity.net, an online urban agriculture platform, will…

This workshop is organized by MIT’s Senseable City Lab, Newcastle Culture Lab, and IBM. Deadline for paper has already passed…: The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) will take place in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing in San Francisco, CA, USA on June 12-15, 2011. Over the past decade, the…

This one reached us via the Mobilities Research and Policy Center blog: Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now April 26th 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm Van Pelt Auditorium Philadelphia Museum of Art   In this panel, cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology and science, the real and the imaginary, offer us…

Indesem 11 PARTICIPATE! WORKSHOP WEEK MAY 13-21 2011 http://www.indesem.nl/?p=62 Theme 2011: Losing Ground ave you already used the ‘Like’ button today? Do you still send letters by post? Where do you interact more with your friends – on Skype or at a café? In recent years our means of interacting with one another have changed…

We received this locative media workshop call via Katharine S. Willis (@trolleytweet). It is part of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, chaired by Marcus Foth: Workshop H Locative media, memory and presence in the city Katharine S. Willis, University of Siegen, Germany, willis AT locatingmedia.uni.siegen.de Karen Martin, University of Kent, UK, K.Martin-409 AT kent.ac.uk Segah…