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Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media
(This article was published a few days ago on Engaging Cities, as a guest contribution) Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media Michiel de Lange – The Mobile City The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design…
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CONFERENCE: Home Sense or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’, December 9, Rotterdam
HOME SENSE or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’ http://www.v2.nl/events/one-day-conference-the-internet-of-things What are the consequences and questions for our home-environment in relation to the Internet of Things? This one day conference will bring together a variety of researchers throughout the diverse disciplines. We will present and discuss the current status of the Internet of Things for…
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The Ideas and Ideals in Urban Media Theory and Design
This week the book From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen was launched by MIT Press. The Mobile City’s Martijn de Waal contributed one of the chapters in which he investigates several urban ideals that underlie the design of urban media.
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WORKSHOP: Pachube “Breathe, Amsterdam”, November 18 2011, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam #IoT community is organizing this workshop, with a focus on air quality data: Where’s the data? Technology has progressed to the point that we as citizens with concerns or interests can leverage open source hardware and software together with cloud platforms like Pachube to quickly and cheaply build the systems we need to…
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LECTURE: Program Your City, November 15 2011, Harvard University, Boston
Marcus Foth is giving a talk about open data and urbanism: Program Your City: Legal and Governance Issues of an Urban Integrated Open Data API Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor RSVP required for those attending in person via the form below This event…
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How kite photography can empower local communities
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science promotes the use of cheap open source tools such as kite photography to empower local communities and raise a sense of ‘ownerhsip’ with important environmental issues.
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Keynotes will be announced shortly
Keynotes will be announced shortly
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LEZING: The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard, 27 Oct 2011, Stroom Den Haag.
The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard http://stroom.nl/activiteiten/lezing_symposium.php?l_id=2472204 Donderdag 27 oktober 2011, 20 uur Locatie: Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag Voertaal: Engels Entreeprijs: € 5,- (overmaken op ING-rekening 605409 van Stroom Den Haag onder vermelding van de naam van de lezing) Reserveren verplicht: zie formulier onderaan deze pagina De Amerikaan Mark Shepard is kunstenaar, architect en onderzoeker die in de praktijk voorbij…
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ACADEMIC COURSE
For fall 2011, The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange developed an academic course called “The Media City” for bachelor 2 and pre-master students at Utrecht University. Martijn de Waal was one of the invited guest lecturers.
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WORKSHOP
The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange participated in the panel “Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn“, about the future of locative media at ISEA2011 in Istanbul.
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PUBLIC LAUNCH
The Mobile City presented the study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’, on September 14 2011 at PICNIC in Amsterdam.
