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The Mobile City goes Moscow: 6-day workshop “Designing for Ownership” 9-14 July 2012, Strelka Institute
The Mobile City is honored to have been invited to give a workshop at the young and very ambitious Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia. The workshop is part of the Strelka Summer Program “Agents of Change“. In a series of workshops and lectures the question is addressed how citizens can…
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EVENT: City Think Lab “open-crowd & shared city”, 9 July 2012, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam
Porting the logics of online culture to the city is a big theme nowadays. This is an interesting evening about redefining ‘ownership’ in the contemporary city (in Dutch): Naast het delen van auto’s ontstaat steeds meer uitwisseling van goederen en informatie maar ook van plekken tussen bewoners. Meestal binnen een stad maar soms ook in…
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CONFERENCE: “The Citizen Scientist on the Move” 25 – 27 June 2012, Utrecht University+Waag Society
As part-time lecturer at Utrecht University, TMC’s Michiel de Lange is one of the co-organizers of this event: With the advent of digital and mobile technologies scientific knowledge production has changed profoundly. As interactive, affordable, networked and ubiquitous technologies they invite people to engage with, alter and probe scientific ‘facts’. Play is essential to think…
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EVENT: Internet of Things event, 6 June 2012, Eindhoven
A third interesting and related event happening in Eindhoven beginning of June: This international event will merge business (where is the money) and technology, and will focus on two Internet of Things cases: The individual and The Home. The event contains four linked activities: The seminar will tackle social, technical, cultural and design challenges, discuss innovative solutions, show new…
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EVENT: Jam Session: Decentralized Power System, 4 June 2012, Eindhoven
Outcomes of the Science Hack Day will be incorporated in this two-day Jam Session (be quick, limited seats): Jam Session: Decentralized Power System Eindhoven High Tech Campus Eindhoven High Tech Campus, Eindhoven (map) #sensemakers Sensemakers is an open community of technologists in NYC and Amsterdam working on urban social problems (for example, a democratized air quality sensor network which raised $150K…
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EVENT: Science Hack Day Eindhoven, 1-2 June 2012
This is another cool event focussing on two “enabling technologies” open data and the internet of things: Science Hack Day Eindhoven 1-2 June 2012 Two exciting themes: 1. Healthy living; 2. Happy living Two enabling technologies: 1. Open Data; 2. Internet of Things Get excited and make things with science…
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EVENT: Augment It! 17 May 2012, Trouw Amsterdam
Many interesting events happening at the same time right now in the Netherlands… 4 – 6 pm (‘Poetry on the Screen program’) / 8 pm – 1 am (Augment It! program) presale € 10 | door € 10 | trouwe honden € 9 | club 16.00 – 01.00 | doors open 16.00 The Stedelijk Museum and…
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SYMPOSIUM & BOOK LAUNCH: Beyond Data, Rotterdam (DEAF Festival), May 18 2012
This year’s DEAF-festival features a number of interesting events, amongst which the launch of the book Beyond Data. May 18, 2012, 18:00-19:00 Location: Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam, NL Presented by Angela Plohman, Baltan Laboratories and Melinda Sipos, Kitchen Budapest Baltan Laboratories and Kitchen Budapest are pleased to launch a new joint publication focusing on their recent…
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CALL: Hack the City Workshop, Dublin July 11 – July 26, 2012
This is an interesting “City Hacking” collaboration between Medialab Prado Madrid and the Science Gallery Dublin: Call for Projects: Interactivos?’12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs Science Gallery (Dublin) and Medialab-Prado (Madrid) are issuing an Open Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during Interactivos?’12 Dublin: Hack the City. Current and Future Needs (July 11…
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Txt and the city
This is a commissioned article I wrote a few months ago for Canvas8 about the role of technologies in urban culture and its implications for brands. It is republished here with kind permission. Txt and the city Michiel de Lange Scope Today’s cities are pervaded by a variety of visible and invisible media technologies,…
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CfP/WORKSHOP: Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses. 6 June 2012, Plymouth University UK
Katharine Willis send us an announcement for this interesting event: Remediating Urban Space Symposium Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses Wednesday 6th June 2012 10.00– 16.30 Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK Keynote: Mark Shepard, University of Buffalo Communication technologies remediate everyday urban life, resulting in subtle shifts in the spatial, temporal, scalar and material processes which are ‘all too…
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EVENT: Open Internet of Things Assembly, June 16-17 2012 London
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…
