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CALL for projects: Spontaneous Interventions US pavilion @Architecture Biennale 2012. Deadline: 6 Feb. 2012

This is an interesting call, many overlaps with the ‘commons’ themes addressed in our Social Cities of Tomorrow conference: Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012). In recent years, there has been a nascent movement of designers acting on…

January 21, 2012
CALL for projects: Living Labs Global Award 2012. Deadline 17 Feb. 2012

We received a call for the Living Labs Global Award 2012, which may be of interest to you since many of the categories have something to do with smart uses of technologies: Since 2009, the Living Labs Global Award has worked together with cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas to present major societal challenges…

January 21, 2012
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January 18, 2012
Selection of ‘Showcases’ now available

At our conference we will feature a number of ‘Showcases’ in the design of our ‘social cities of tomorrow.’ All of them make use of urban media in an innovative way and their initiators will share their ambitions as well as their ‘lessons learned.’ We are exited to announce the following project-presentations, selected out of…

January 12, 2012
Ticket update (12/02/10): 22 tickets left!

If you are planning to attend our Social Cities of Tomorrow conference, please order your tickets at your earliest convenience. With exactly one week to go, we only have 22 tickets left.

January 10, 2012
CfP: MAS Context special issue about ‘ownership’, deadline Jan. 9 2012

Something is in the air.. This is a call from MAS Context. MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields and different perspectives who, together, instigate the debate. Our next…

January 6, 2012
CONTEST: “Panopticon as a metaphor of the Internet of Things”, deadline January 31 2012

The use of Bentham’s panopticon in analyses of urban new media is widespread (we’ve done it on this blog here and here). For Foucault the circular prison structure became the emblem of modern institutionalized ‘disciplinary societies’. Despite Deleuze’s observation in ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control‘ (1990) of a shift from top-down induced self-disciplining to distributed peer-to-peer types…

January 6, 2012
Workshop application now closed

We’ve received over 40 applications for the Social Cities of Tomorrow workshop that will take place in the days before the conference. Participants will receive news about their selection in the week of January 9th. During the workshop they will work on four real world urban issues. The results of the workshop will be presented in a…

January 5, 2012
Ownership in the hybrid city: themes and examples (part 1)

A while ago our study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’ was published. The study, written in collaboration with Virtueel Platform, informs the event Social Cities of Tomorrow (14 − 17 Feb 2012). In the study we explore how digital media can strengthen ‘ownership’, that is, citizen engagement with collective urban issues and the capacity to…

December 30, 2011
Over 80 entries received; Jury to select presenters

Our call to propose a project for presentation at our conference, resulted in over 80 entries. We are very glad with this interest in Social Cities of Tomorrow. It also means that we now have the difficult task to select 10 projects from the wide variety of proposals we received, many of which were highly…

December 23, 2011
Third keynote speaker: Dan Hill

We are very happy to announce Dan Hill as our third keynote speaker. Dan Hill is a designer and urbanist. Currently Dan is a Strategic Design Lead at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, working as part of the Strategic Design Unit. He and his colleagues are exploring the use and practice of design in enabling systemic change.…

December 21, 2011
Workshop call: ‘Designing Social Cities of Tomorrow’ 14 − 16 Feb 2012

Image: The Mobile City / NAi / IABR ‘Connectivity’ workshop during the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in 2009. We just updated the Workshop page on our website with the full announcement and call for participation. The basic idea is that teams of about 6 participants will be working on a real-world case. Various urban stakeholders –…

December 19, 2011