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CfP: The Internet of Things Workshop II: Builders at Play, Amstedam 2-4 September 2011
Our colleagues at Archis/Volume and Vurb are organizing a workshop on the internet of things and architecture, and looking for participants. See also an earlier write-up by The Mobile City of their call. Archis/Volume and VURB present the Internet of Things Workshop II: Builders at Play. September 2-4, Waag Society, Amsterdam. http://volumeproject.org/blog/2011/07/27/the-internet-of-things-workshop-ii-builders-at-play/ Calling on architects, coders, urban…
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Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell – Divining a digital future (2011)
In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) again team up in an attempt to marry ethnography with ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) research. The book heavily builds on some of their previous collaborative work.…
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EVENT: Tracing Concepts, In, Out and Through Computing, Maastricht, 21 July 2011
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240618459295530 Thursday, July 21 · 2:00pm – 11:00pm Location Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 Maastricht, Netherlands Created By Edwin Gardner More Info Launching of the Tracing Concepts website and publication 14:00 – 16:00 Launch & Presentations Edwin Gardner & Marcell Mars 16:00 – 16:30 Break 16:30 – 18:30 Guests speakers Netscape – Ronald Wall (Rotterdam) Architect turned…
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EVENT: Interaces and metropolises 8th encounter between French and Swiss urban planners, Lausanne, 8 July2011
For our francophone readers who are in the Lausanne-area: this seems like an interesting gathering, taking place tomorrow: Vendredi 08 juillet 2011 | Lausanne (Suisse) Interfaces & métropoles Huitième rencontre franco-suisse des urbanistes Interaces and metropolises 8th encounter between French and Swiss urban planners Publié le lundi 06 juin 2011 par RÉSUMÉ Éléments clés des politiques actuelles…
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CFP WORKSHOP:Re-thinking user-centered design with new forms of end user empowerment, Alghero, 13-9-2011
Re-thinking user-centered design with new forms of end user empowerment A Workshop at CHITALY (http://www.architettura.uniss.it/chitaly2011/index.php/eng) Date: 13 September 2011 – Alghero Organisers: Cristiano Storni, Liam Bannon, Luigina Ciolfi (University of Limerick, Ireland), Francesca Bria (Imperial College London, UK) For more information please visit: http://chitaly-empowerment-workshop.blogspot.com/ Background This workshop will explore the emerging paradigm of end-user empowerment…
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How to design better cities with urban interventions and computer code?
How can we design urban objects that bring about an urban public sphere? And how can we make use of algorithms to make urban design more adaptive to the needs of citizens? These questions were addressed during the first Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam.
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LECTURE: Appsterdam Weekly Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures, Wednesdays 12:30, Amsterdam
This is an interesting initiative: Mike Lee is trying to convince all app makers to come down to Amsterdam to set up shop here. Hear Hear! To get the energy flowing, he is starting a weekly lecture series over lunchtime on wednesday’s, starting next week: See here for more details: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=198 As part of the…
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Cognitive Cities Salon Amsterdam, June 30, Amsterdam.
Time Thursday, June 30 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location De Verdieping Wibautstraat 127 Amsterdam, Netherlands “The synthesis of architecture and network technologies.” We hope to see many of you at our first iteration of the Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam. It is our combined pleasure to introduce you to the speakers that will engage the…
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EVENT: International Street Games Festival, June 17-19 Berlin
International Street Games Festival 17-19 June – HAU2 Berlin http://invisibleplayground.com/#you-are-go Cowgirls, penguins and space travel at Mehringplatz! Gentrification as gameification! Alternate universes, dancing patrols and adventures in absolutely stunning life-like graphics… Inspired by festivals such as Come Out & Play (New York), Hide & Seek Weekender(London), and igFest (Bristol), You Are GO! brings to Berlin a postdigital play…
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CONFERENCE: Designing Geopolitics, June 2-3, San Diego
Here’s another conference that looks very interesting with a great line-up. The focus of the conference lies beyond the scale of the city, but the issues involved are similar to some of the themes that we are addressing here. And for those of you who won’t be able to make it to San Diego within…
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SEMINAR & WORKSHOP: Visualizar 11, June 14-July 1, Madrid
Our colleagues from Spain have put together what seems a highly interesting seminar and workshop: Visualizar 11: Understanding Infrastructures. International workshop and seminar 14.06.2011 – 01.07.2011 Place: Medialab-Prado · Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 Madrid From June 14 to July 1 Visualizar’11: Understanding Infrastructures offers an international project development workshop and a theoretical seminar where selected…
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Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what?
Report of City_Play_Data. Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the city. How do we design urban media that allow citizens to act? Can we use urban games to include citizens in urban planning? And how do we move beyond ‘gamificiation’ ?
