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New chapter “From real-time city to asynchronicity: exploring the real-time smart city dashboard”
Fresh from the press, this interesting edited volume by colleagues Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott and Daniel Evans, called “Time for mapping: Cartographic temporalities”. I have a chapter in the book called “From real-time city to asynchronicity: exploring the real-time smart city dashboard”. In this essay, I pursue the idea of an…
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Interview Medialab Katowice about municipal data and public values
Medialab Katowice published an e-mail interview with me, as part of the Data (for) Culture conference in Katowice at which I spoke in December 2017. Here is the link to the interview on the Medialab Katowice website >> Below the original correspondence (unedited version of the interview): Łukasz Mirocha (LM): Generally speaking, what is the role of data in the…
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1 PhD + 1 postdoc position new NWO project ”Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities” deadline 20 April ’18
Recently, the research project ”Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities” in which I am co-applicant received a NWO grant, as part of the program Smart Culture – Creative Cities. This new project further strengthens the research profile of The Mobile City platform, which since 2007 has actively shaped a research and design agenda around digital media…
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The Hackable City Cahiers
The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society. In these three cahiers (notebooks) we share our insights gained both in Amsterdam Buiksloterham as well as in a series of international study trips.
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Towards a Citizen’s centered IoT. Panel report at Thingscon 2017.
How can we develop an IoT from a citizen’s perspective? What kind of projects have empowered citizens and what does it take to get these kind of projects of the ground? Those were the central questions we addressed at our panel at Thingscon 2017 that I had co-organized with Iskander Smit. Point of departure was…
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The Hackable City: Citymaking in a Platform Society
For the journal Architectural Design, we wrote a contribution for the Special Issue: 4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Toolkit for the Open-Source City. Abstract Can computer hacking have positive parallels in the shaping of the built environment? The Hackable City research project was set up with this question in mind, to investigate the potential of digital platforms to…
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Talk at Data (For) Culture conference in Katowice, 2 Dec. 2017
On December 2 2017 I will give a talk at the Data (For) Culture conference in Katowice. The event is organized by Medialab Katowice. About the event: During the conference, experts from Poland and abroad will discuss a number of topics, including: (a) how to combine traditional methods of cultural research with the analysis of large data sets from…
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Workshop “The Right to the Smart City”, 5-6 Sept 2017, Maynooth University
On 5 and 6 Sept 2017 I was invited to give a talk at the workshop The Right to the Smart City: Citizenship, Civic Participation, Urban Commons and Co-Creation, at Maynooth, as part of Rob Kitchin’s The Programmable City project. Below the video report of the session I was in (session 2: Urban Commons): Here’s the…
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Video “A Walk in the smart city” (wandeling in de slimme stad) Betweterfestival 29 Sept. 2017
Recently I gave a talk (in Dutch) for the Betweterfestival in Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called “A Walk in the smart city” (Een wandeling in de slimme stad). The talk was in Dutch. The video of the talk (copyright UU Studium Generale) can be watched here…
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[urban interfaces] graduate seminar series 2017-2018
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Together with Nanna Verhoeff, Sigrid Merx, and Hira Sheikh, I am organizing this seminar series about Urban Friction. It is part of the research group [urban interfaces] I co-founded with Nanna & Sigrid. Urban processes have been impacted by frictions all throughout history. The remarkable pace and dynamics of the current phase of global…
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Article (in Dutch) in AGORA Magazine “Slimme stad, slimme stedelingen”
Recently I wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay I suggest three alternative imaginaries for smart and social cities: data city, playful city, and maker city. All of these imaginaries have hackability as a central quality. Here’s the scan of the essay. Photo credit (cropped…
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New Amsterdam Magazine #10 – contribution about Hackable City Making
To the most recent edition of New Amsterdam Magazine #10 we contributed an article about The Hackable City. Read the article Hacking Buiksloterham: How digital media can democratize city-making (pdf) Read the full version of the Magazine here >>
