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Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis @HOT100 Workshop Report
Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis was invited to contribute to the 2013 Hot100 program, a workshop with the best alumni in the arts, media and technology, which took place on Friday the 27th of September in the framework of Today’s Art Festival. So far an initiative of Virtueel Platform, this year it is the first time that…
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Natalie Jeremijenko at the Social Cities of Tomorrow.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist. She is also the director of the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, a space where environmental issues are approached as health concerns. In her clinic the (im)patients leave the consultation not with a series of pharmaceuticals but instead with a prescription for actions that could have an impact…
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Designing Trust
by AURELIE The event Social Cities of Tomorrow that took place last Friday opened up with a series of workshops at the ARCAM (Architecture Center of Amsterdam) earlier this week and brought together local stakeholder organizations and participants from different backgrounds to brainstorm on urban design and media technologies. It was organized by The Mobile City…
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Usman Haque: Sensors and Napkins
by LAURENT HUBEEK After three long days of workshops, on Friday it was finally time for the Social Cities of Tomorrow conference event. Usman Haque was one of the day’s keynote speakers. He is perhaps best known as the founder of Pachube, an online hub for open and distributed data collection for the Internet of Things.…
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A strong social city.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ On Thursday night the four groups presented their results and prototypes that they had been respectively working on during the workshops. The event, which took place at Mediamatic, was completely sold out. “When you do an image search for the query smart city”– Martijn from the Mobile City began explaining to the audience—“mostly…
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Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 2]
by LAURENT HUBEEK On the evening of Thursday the 16th of February the workshop teams presented their results at Mediamatic. This post will be about teams 3 and 4. The reports on teams 1 and 2 can be found here. With the presentations of team 1 and 2 over, it was time for team 3 to…
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Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 1]
by LAURENT HUBEEK The report on the presentations of teams 3 and 4 can be found here. For the last few days now, our four teams have been hard at work coming up with ideas, concepts and solutions for each of their cases. Tonight Mediamatic hosted the final event of the workshop program. In front of…
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Combined skills.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ The week began with the contrasting view of the semi-frozen canal and the taste of warm coffee. Once everyone arrived at the ground floor of ARCAM, and as it is accustomed in this type of event, the introductory presentation and quick welcome to the participants were followed by a round of individual…
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The Workshop Update!
by LAURENT HUBEEK Today was day 2 of the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. Work on all four of the cases is now well underway and we thought it would a good idea to ask the teams for a quick update on how they’re doing. So, around lunch time today, the halfway point for all workshop…
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Play Noord! Gaming and City Planning
by NICOLA What does bottom-up participation in city design actually mean? That’s one of the questions emerging from Ekim Tan’s presentation at ARCAM today, preceding the second day of workshops at the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. The Istanbul-born, Netherlands-based designer, founder of the Responsive City research network, introduced Play Noord!, a gaming approach at bottom-up…