Sharon Switzer sent us a call for submissions for the Toronto Urban Film Festival, which uses outdoor screens in public settings: — The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), unique in North America, is a public film festival that reaches 1.3 million daily commuters on the ONESTOP TTC subway platform screens. This year’s guest judge is Atom…

OPEN-CREATIVE-SERIOUS-FUN Transdigital Seminar 2011 – GENT http://www.transdigital.org/events/transdigital-seminar-2011-ghent Transdigital ends its third season with a two-day seminar and presentation of Cookbook # 2,  the yearbook of the Transdigital project.  This two-day across-the-border conference links visits to the labs of Timelab and IBBT to a series of presentations, lectures and demonstrations for the inspiration of artists, developers,…

This is on a short notice, but looks interesting nevertheless. Today the Future Everything festival kicks of in Manchester, and from tomorrow (May 12th) there is a conference where themes related to the Mobile City will be discussed. Go check it out if you are around. http://futureeverything.org/ideas-overview/ The FutureEverything Conference takes place on 12th and 13th…

Science and Technology Studies are taking up urban issues as well, as can be seen from this announcement: STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology – in collaboration with the University of Sassari, Faculty ofPolitical Sciences and Faculty of Architecture – organizes the Summer School “Cities, Infrastructures, Networks”, to be held in…

If you happen to be in Berlin in a few days from now and speak German, than this one should be interesting too: Blogging the City – Neue Öffentlichkeiten für Stadt und Architektur Konferenz am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011 in den Uferhallen, 13357 Berlin Das Internet verändert die Auseinandersetzung mit städtischen Themen, die Informationsverteilung, wie Akteure…

This one looks highly interesting. Wish we could be there. (And if you are interested in this theme, do check out this article on The Mobile City: Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy ) —- Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected World// June 9-10,…

LAYAR DAY L.A. Augmented Reality Symposium & Workshop Friday, May 20, 2011 from 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM (PT) Pasadena, CA http://layardayla-estw.eventbrite.com/ On Friday May 20, 2011 Layar, the world’s leader in mobile augmented reality will host LAYAR DAY L.A., a full day of hacking space and time in the heart of Los Angeles with…

SYMPOSIUM: Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability http://www.encatc.org/cult-management-city/?p=109 28-30 September 2011, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal   CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, together with the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance…

You may notice that we have changed the look and feel of our website. In part this is a functional and cosmetic change. The old blog had become somewhat cluttered and was quite slow to load. We restructured the content in a more logical and intuitive way, with menus and clear section headers. We applied…

The Mobile City takes part in the Dutch launch of Sentient City Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space, edited by Mark Shepard. The Mobile City’s Martijn de Waal contributed to the book, and can be read here:  THE URBAN CULTURE OF SENTIENT CITIES: FROM AN INTERNET OF THINGS TO A PUBLIC SPHERE OF THINGS…