Next Nature explores the changing relation between people, nature and technology, and organizes a fourth edition of the Powershow: The Next Nature Power Show is an intellectual spectacle where artists, scientists, designers, filmmakers, politicians and philosophers present their radical ideas, visionary statements and powerful images on how to design, build and live in Next Nature:…

Can citizens and local stakeholders collaborate in designing their urban environment by playing a city game? Our friends at The Resonsive City have developed this into a project called Play the City! After Istanbul, this is now being trialled in Amsterdam Noord under the name Play Noord! (announcement in Dutch only).   Burgers proberen vastgelopen stedelijke ontwikkeling…

tIP lecture #2: Christian Licoppe on the Social Network City http://www.deltametropool.nl/nl/tip2_social_network_city  Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences and Association Deltametropolis invite you to the International Perspectives: Social Network City. A lecture by Christian Licoppe on the development of Urban Public Places into ‘Hybrid Ecologies’ on Thursday October 13, 2011.   | Christian Licoppe | is Head of the Social…

This event has nothing to do with digital media per se, but it certainly looks interesting! http://www.ifhp.org/spontaneous-invitation 1 DAY SEMINAR worldwide examples Friday 14 October 10:00 – 17:00 at Amsterdam Roest, Czaar Peterstraat 213 , Oostenburgeiland   During this one day seminar eight examples of Spontaneous City development from all over the world will be…

We received this call for qualification for an Artist Opportunity in Silicon Valley, by Mary Rubin from the San José Office of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Program. SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER PUBLIC ARTOPEN CALL TO SUBMIT QUALIFICATIONSSUBMITTAL DEADLINE- Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11 P.M. PDT This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended GENERAL…

Adriana de Souza e Silva sends us this CfP and conference announcement. Great lineup! 3rd Mobilities conference 2012 Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media Conference website and abstract submission: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/ From March 16-18 2012, the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Program and the Mobile Gaming Research Lab at NC State University will be hosting the 3rd joint…

Newly founded Satellite Magazine holds a writing contest, themed “cities”. We’re holding our first writing contest this fall. The winner will receive $500 and be published in our second issue, which will be released in early 2012. The contest theme is cities. All forms are welcome—journalism and fiction, essays and criticism, long and short—and the…

V2_ is organizing what looks to be a very interesting evening about the ‘Internet of Things’: Blowup: The Era of Objects Beyond the flying car: join top designers Julian Bleecker (Nokia, Near Future Laboratory), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Really Interesting Group), and Anab Jain (Superflux) in an exploration of speculative design. We are rapidly entering (and perhaps…

Stroom (Center for Art & Architecture in Den Haag, Netherlands) is organizing what appears to be an interesting series of lectures about the future of architecture and urbanism. “The Knight’s Move” is a series of yearly lectures by eminent international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain,…

Looks like an interesting event:   Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space November 25th – December 12th, 2011 House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany www.hkw.de Mobility has become one of the most important keywords in the discourse on globalisation, techno-economic change or the Information Society. The idea of nomadic, ‘mobile’ persons supported by spatial…