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2017

• 14 December 2017 Martijn de Waal presented a keynote The Human City Conference (Brussel)
• 1-2 December Michiel de Lange invited (special lecture) speaker at “DATA (FOR) CULTURE” event, Katowice, https://dataforculture.eu/en/programme/.
• 1 December Martijn de Waal was a moderator & co-organizer pannel How to organize a citizen-centered IoT Thingscon Conference (Amsterdam)
• 6 November Martijn de Waal gave a lecture on The Hackable City at a workshop organized by the Urbact The Interactive City programme (Amsterdam)
• 22 November Martijn de Waal took part in a workshop  at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency about future for scenarios for urbanization & mobility (Den Haag)
• 30 October 30 Martijn de Waal was a discussant and Panelist at Long Live Amsterdam: the digital city at De Balie (Amsterdam)
• 24 October Michiel de Lange was moderator of Conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens” NatLab, Eindhoven (Dutch Design Week/World Design Event).
• 18 October Martijn de Waal presented the book  Straatwaarden with his fellow authors at Pakhuis de Zwijger(Amsterdam)
• 29 Sept. Michiel de Lange co-organized RMeS Masterclass with Janet Murray.
• 29 Sept. Michiel de Lange gave talk “Data en de stad” at Betweterfestival on 30 September 2017.
• 28 Sept. Michiel de Lange co-organized and moderated panel “Algorithmic Reality” at Netherlands Film Festival.
• 27 Sept. Michiel de Lange moderation at Netherlands Film Festival. Laborations and Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) teaming up for end of Sept. 2017.
• 15 September Martijn de Waal was a aoderator & co-organizer of the roundtable “ICT, open societies and new institutions” at WINIR conference (Utrecht)
• 5-7 Sept Michiel de Lange invited workshop participant “The Right to the Smart City” organized by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth Univ., Ireland.
• 23 June Martijn de Waal was a keynote speaker at the 10th anniversary of Kitchen Budapest (Budapest)
• 14 June 2017 Participatory Urban Interfaces workshop UU. Organized by Michiel de Lange and Sjors Martens from [Urban Interfaces] and The Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play. Sponsored by the focus area for Games Research.
• 31 May Martijn de Waal was a guest (speaker) in the talk show Stadsleven organized by Tracy Metx (Amsterdam)
• 8 May Martijn de Waal held a guest lecture about The Platform Society at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam)
• 20-21 April – International Games for Cities conference at Het Nieuwe Instituut; Michiel de Lange did moderation, Martijn de Waal was referent – http://gamesforcities.com/.
• 19 April Martijn de Waal & Michiel de Lange organized a colloquium with Eric Gordon (with HvA, and Play the City).
• 1-2 April Michiel de Lange was invited keynote speaker at Datapublics workshop/conference, Lancaster University http://datapublics.net.
• 27 February Michiel de Lange was did moderation and co-organizing expert meeting “Imaging [Urban] Data Visualization” https://mcwexpertisecentre.sites.uu.nl/2017/01/23/imaging-urban-data-visualization/ (Urban Interfaces, Datafied Society, SETUP, MCW expertise centre).
• 15 February Martijn de Waal was a presenter and moderator at the training School Co-Creating of Inclusive and Digital Mediated Public Spaces COST TU 1306 Cyberparks (Lisbon)
• 31 January Martijn de Waal was a keynote speaker at the conference Woonstad Rotterdam (Rotterdam)
• 30 Jan. Michiel de Lange was invited for a talk at Ecogames Symposium, organized by Joost Raessens at Utrecht University https://www.uu.nl/en/events/symposium-ecogames-game-research-meets-sustainability.
• 24 January Martijn de Waal presented his book De Platformsamenleving with his co-authors Jose van Dijck and Thomas Poell at Pakhuis De Zwijger (Amsterdam)
• 19 January Michiel de Lange was invited keynote for iCity Masterclass at University of Amsterdam http://urbanstudies.uva.nl/events/content/courses/2017/01/masterstudio-the-i-city-the-urban-challenges-of-icts.html.
• 13 January Martijn de Waal was a presenter at a Street Values Research Project Expert Meeting (Amsterdam)
• 10 January 2017: Michiel de Lange co-organized meet & greet with Shannon Mattern at Parnassos, collab between [Urban Interfaces] and MCW Expertise Centre.

2016

• 21 December Martijn de Waal gave a lecture De Platformsamenleving at Tetem (Enschede)
• 13 December Michiel de Lange organized & chaired lecture & Workshop Ole B. Jensen & Simon Wind at UU, Sweelinckzaal
• 1 December Martijn de Waal took part in the book Presentation De Platformsamenleving (Amsterdam)
• 29 November Michiel de Lange gave a guest lecture at Rotterdam Knowledge Lab Urban Big Data.
• 22 November Michiel de Lange was gave a talk about “The Hackable City” project at MEDIATIONS conference, RCA London – http://tr-aders.eu/conference/general-theme/.
• 7 November Martijn de Waal gave lecture & co-organized the workshop Round n Around. Urban Tactics and the Appropriation of Public Space (Sao Paulo)
• 2 November Martijn de Waal gave a lecture at the Masterclass Vastgoed 3.0 (Utrecht)
• 24 October Michiel de Lange was co-organized a seminar with Maarten Hajer hosted by the Urban interfaces group.
• 23 October 2016 Michiel de Lange Moderation Utrecht “Games for Cities” Talkshow in Overvecht http://gamesforcities.com/
• 12 October Michiel de Lange was invited for a guest lecture UU Humanities Lectures 2016-17 ” Imaginaries of the Future ” about hackable city project
• 11 October Michiel de Lange was did moderation of Games for Cities event in Pakhuis de Zwijger http://gamesforcities.com.
• 10-14 October Martijn de Waal Moderated and co-organized the  Training School Cyberparks Games for Cities (Amsterdam)
• 3 October 2016 Michiel de Lange did moderation of “Rezone Redesire” game launch in Pakhuis de Zwijger
• 25 September Martijn de Waal co-organized the workshop Round n Around Bikeability (Sao Paulo)
• 20 September 2016 Michiel de Lange was invited for a guest lecture about “The Hackable City” project at Innovation Institute Copernicus UU (Frans Sengers).
• 20 September 2016 Michiel de Lange was invited for a guest lecture about the data-driven smart city for UDS at Stadhuis Gem. Dordrecht
• 5 July Martijn de Waal took part in the ‘diner pensant’ Filosofen agenderen de stad organized by Ruimtevolk & Platform 31 (Apeldoorn).
• 30 June Michiel de Lange was speaker INtetain conference Utrecht about “playful cities”.
• 29 June Lead Watergame testing at International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR)
• 24 June Martijn de Waal took co-organized & moderated The Hackable City International. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. (Rotterdam)
• 23 June Michiel de Lange organized & chaired “smart & playful cities” seminar for Games focus area
• 15 June Martijn de Waal gave a lecture Atelier Co-Design Straatwaarde Reinwardt Academie
• 14 June Martijn de Waal gave a lecture & moderated an event on the book Recoded City Pakhuis @ de Zwijger with Thomas Emracora & Lucy Bullivant (Amsterdam)
• 6 June Michiel de Lange was host of a Datafied Society “smart cities” meeting UU
• 4 June Martijn de Waal was a panelist at the Book presentation What Media Art Can Do. Media Architecture Biennale (Sydney)
• 2 June Martijn de Waal was a panelist a the City Leaders Summit Media Architecture Biennale (Sydney)
• 1 June Martijn de Waal held a lecture & co-organizer the Minisymposium The Hackable City, Shenzhen Planning Bureau. (Shenzhen)
• Interview for Smart City article by Rob Hartgens for ING bank internal pub
• 30 May 2016 EU city makers summit watergame testing Pakhuis
• 27 May Fab City Amsterdam – testing hackable watergame.23 May Martijn de Waal was an invited panelist at the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference
• 20 May Michiel de Lange was invited respondent “affect space” symposium (Eric Kluitenberg).
• 10 May  Martijn de Waal gave a guest lecture at the University of Athens (Athens)
• 9 May  Martijn de Waal gave a lecture & co-organized the Minisymposium The Hackable City University of Athens (Athens)
• 23 April – 10 July 2016 contribution to IABR expo “hackable cityplot”
• 22 April 2016 Michiel de Lange gave a Games focus area lunch talk UU
• 20 April 2016 Michiel de Lange was participant and advisor Nationale Wetenschapsagenda “smart city” track – TU Delft
• 15 April Martijn de Waal took part in a ‘Bed Talk’ met Ruth Mackenzie (Directeur Holland Festival) in the Student Hotel (Amsterdam)
• 21 March 2016 Michiel de Lange was invited respondent Dorien Zandbergen event Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions (AMS )
• 15 March Martijn de Waal gave a lecture on The Hackable City at  Red Bull Station (Sao Paulo)
• 14 March 2016 Michiel de Lange Pakhuis Commons evening – invited panellist
• 29 January Martijn de Waal took part in the Civic Media Consortium Meeting (Boston)
• 27 January Martijn de Waal gave a lecture at Northeastern University (Boston)
• 15 January Martijn de Waal was a respondent at the Book Presentation Michiel Schwarz Sustainist Lexicon. Reinwardt Academie. (Amsterdam)
• 12 Jan. 2016 Michiel de Lange Invited talk “Playful City” talk COST TU1306 Action, Poznan

2015

• 4 December Martijn de Waal gave a lecture in cooperation with the Denker des Vaderlands & Trouw (Den Haag)
• 15 October Michiel de Lange co-organized & moderated event with talk by Sander Veenhof “Why Theatre?! Virtual Realities In The City“, Het Huis Utrecht,
• 14 October Michiel de Lange gave a talk “Leven in hybrid reality“, Studium Generale “Reality Check”, Utrecht University,
• 9 Oktober  Martijn de Waal gave a guest lecture at a University of Pensylvania Workshop (Amsterdam)
• 28 September Michiel de Lange was  gave a presentation “The Hackable City: collaborative city making in urban lab Buiksloterham”, during workshop “Ethical surveillance in Smart and Hackable cities”, organized by Michael Nagenborg, with guest Gemma Galdon Clavell, UTwente, Philosophy Lab.
• 17 September Martijn de Waal held the keynote lecture The Hackable City The Hybrid City Conference (Athens)
• 1 September Martijn de Waal gave an invited presentation at the workshop Data and The City (Maynooth)
• 23 August Martijn de Waal gave a lecture on The Hackable City at Studio-X (Rio de Janeiro)
• 21 August Martijn de Waal held a workshop The Hackable City (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• 3 July Michiel de Lange was  gave a talk “Mapping the smart city: dashboards, data, design“, at TRADERS Training Week #3 on Performative Mapping, Design Academy Eindhoven/Utrecht University.
• 26 June Martijn de Waal & Michiel de Lange did co-organization, introductory talk, and moderation workshop “The Hackable City: collaborative city making in urban lab Buiksloterham”, Digital Cities Workshop 9, University of Limerick
• 25 June Martijn de Waal gave a talk in the IxDA Year of Irish Design series (Limerick)
• 23 June Martijn de Waal gave a guest lecture TU Delft
• 22 June Michiel de Lange gave a lunch talk “The Hackable City: collaborative city making in urban lab Buiksloterham”, Utrecht University.
• 18 June Martijn de Waal gave a Talk at the Behavior Design Meetup (Amsterdam)
• 11 June 11 Martijn de Waal was a organizer & speaker of the panel Hybrid City Storytelling (Amsterdam, Pakhuis de Zwijger)
• 11 June Michiel de Lange co-organized a workshop about Game Design for the Circulair City at Kennisdag Gemeente Amsterdam, Tolhuistuin.
• 30 May Michiel de Lange wrote an article in Dutch newspaper Parool “A truly smart city is a playful city”.
• 29 May Martijn de Waal gave a guest Lecture at Urban Management (HvA Amsterdam)
• 26 May Martijn de Waal was invited for a lecture at Stadsleven by Tracy Metz (Amsterdam, De Balie)
• 18 May Martijn de Waal gave a guest lecture at Cultural Studies (UvA)
• 3 May Martijn de Waal was an invited panelist & discussant at the Closing Session Media City Conference (Plymouth)
• 1 May Martijn de Waal gave a presentation about The Hackable City Media City Conference (Plymouth)
• 21 April Martijn de Waal gave a lecture at the Media Future Week (Hilversum)
• 19 April Michiel de Lange gave invited talk “The Playful City: Can play and games help to make truly smart cities?” at the “Digital Spaces: Games, Design, Art” conference, University of Siegen, as part of Playin’ Siegen Festival, Gemany.
• 18 April Michiel de Lange Interview in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad “De Mobiele Mens”.
• 17 April Michiel de Lange gave talk “Playful City-Making: The Citizen as Urban Planner in the Smart and Social City”, workshop “Urban Interfaces: The Playful Citizen” at ISIS 2015 Conference “Play, Perform, Participate“, Utrecht University.
• 17 April Martijn de Waal was an invited critic at the Workshop Mediafonds@Sandberg
• 16 April Michiel de Lange gave talk “Playing Life In The Metropolis: Mobile Media and Identity in Jakarta”, at “The Making of… Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” (panel & book launch), at ISIS 2015 Conference “Play, Perform, Participate“, Utrecht University.
• 2 April Michiel de Lange did a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) COST Action TU1306 “The Playful City” at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol UK.
• 20 March Martijn de Waal gave a Lecture on The Hackable City at the Rediscovering The City Conference (Katowice, Poland)
• 9 March Michiel de Lange gave a talk and participated in discussion “Campus City – Knowledge Commmunity” Utrecht Manifest. http://www.utrechtmanifest.nl/programma/9-maart-campus-city-knowledge-community-een-discussie-met-jurgen-bey/.
• 2 March Martijn de Waal took part in the ‘Diner Pensant’ Agenda Stad (Amersfoort)Michiel de Lange participated in AT5 television program Wereldstad, about the media city. http://www.uu.nl/nieuws/michiel-de-lange-op-at5-over-nieuwe-media-en-de-stad.
• 3 February Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange presented the Public Space & The Public Good Research Program in Pakhuis de Zwijger.

2014

• 12 December Martijn de Waal gave a talk in the programme Smart City on the Ground organised by Design Terminal (Budapest)
• 4 December Martijn de Waal will give a talk at the Social Space Program in Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam)
• 19 November Martijn de Waal will conduct a Hackable Metropolis Workshop at the Adianta School of Leadership in New Delhi
• 7 November Martijn de Waal will conduct a workshop at ICTOOP Trendbureau Overijssel
• 5 November Martijn de Waal will give a keynote lecture at the National Congres Public Space in Almere
• 2 Oktober Martijn de Waal gives a talk at Traders Summer School (Genk)
• 26 september Martijn de Waal was a panelist at the City Data Future Symposium (Venice)
• 18 september Martijn de Waal lectured at Stadsacademie De Adaptieve Stad (Roermond)
• 18 September Martijn de Waal lectured at Vivid Congres (Breda)
• 12 AugustMartijn de Waal lectured at Summer PIT – Participatory Interaction Design (Aarhus)
• 2 Juli Martijn de Waal lectured at University of New York Buffalo Summer School (Amsterdam)
• 30 Juni Martijn de Waal gave a talk at the Digital Methods Summer School (Amsterdam)
• 13 Juni Martijn de Waal lectured at IMal Connecting Cities (Brussel)
• 15 May Martijn de Waal lectured at Lunchlezing ‘De impact van openheid’ Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (Den Haag)
• 6-8 May Martijn de Waal and Cristina Ampatzidou ran the Workshop Athens Hackable Metropolis (Athens)
• 22 April Martijn de Waal lectured at Forum Stedelijke Vernieuwing
• 10 April Martijn de Waal lectured at the symposium Flow Universiteit van Tilburg
• 9 April Martijn de Waal lectured atMasterclass Platform 31
• 10 Martijn de Waal lectured at februari International Week Hogeschool Rotterdam