The Mobile City

Category: Conference Reports

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Live-blog of the conference at the MC Theater

    Michiel de Lange from The Mobile City introduces the subject of today: how can we make our cities more social instead of just more hi-tech. Martijn de Waal explains that although we will be talking a lot about technology today, it is not about technology in the end, but about the people that are living in de…