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BOOK LAUNCH
The Mobile City contributed to the book Sentient City, edited by Mark Shepard. On May 14 2011 we give a presentation and moderate the Dutch book launch, organized by V2_ in Rotterdam.
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RESEARCH PROJECT
In the spring of 2011, The Mobile City carried out a research project for Virtueel Platform. We researched how digital media design can provide citizens with a sense of ‘ownership’ with regard to their urban surroundings.
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Symposium: Mobility and Location in Social Networks, April 29 2011, ITU Copenhagen
Our friend Adriana De Souza e Silva sent us this announcement for what looks to be an interesting event, with great invited speakers: The first research symposium of the Center for Network Culture will take place on April 29 2001 at the IT University of Copenhagen. The symposium’s main foci are the mobile and…
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MODERATION
On March 23 and 24 2011, TMC’s Michiel de Lange moderated and co-organized two evenings about mobile gaming for Mediamatic’s Mobfest.
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Expo: Farming the City, 25.03.11 − 07.05.11, ARCAM, Amsterdam
Urban farming has been hot for quite some time. Amsterdam-based architecture institute ARCAM will present an exposition about the potential of urban farming for sustainable food production, food culture, and social cohesion. … And they’ve built a ‘Farming the City’ bicycle App for iPhone & Android, using NAi’s UAR platform. Farmingthecity.net, an online urban agriculture platform, will…
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Workshop: Pervasive Urban Applications, 12 June 2011, San Francisco
This workshop is organized by MIT’s Senseable City Lab, Newcastle Culture Lab, and IBM. Deadline for paper has already passed…: The First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) will take place in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing in San Francisco, CA, USA on June 12-15, 2011. Over the past decade, the…
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Event: Augmented Reality Check, 26 April 2011, Philadelphia
This one reached us via the Mobilities Research and Policy Center blog: Augmented Reality Check: Seeing the Future Now April 26th 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm Van Pelt Auditorium Philadelphia Museum of Art In this panel, cutting-edge artists and software developers working at the intersection of art, technology and science, the real and the imaginary, offer us…
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Crisis & chances for the enterprising architect – a report
Report of an evening for architects at the Chamber of Commerce, Amsterdam, 3 March 2011 Last week I attended the meeting “Chances for the enterprising architect” (PDF, announcement in Dutch). The evening was organized by the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with innovation network Syntens and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA). Topic of the…
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Workshop: INternational DEsign SEMinar, 13 − 21 May 2011, Delft, NL
Indesem 11 PARTICIPATE! WORKSHOP WEEK MAY 13-21 2011 http://www.indesem.nl/?p=62 Theme 2011: Losing Ground ave you already used the ‘Like’ button today? Do you still send letters by post? Where do you interact more with your friends – on Skype or at a café? In recent years our means of interacting with one another have changed…
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Workshop: Locative media, memory and presence in the city, 29 June – 2 July 2011, Brisbane
We received this locative media workshop call via Katharine S. Willis (@trolleytweet). It is part of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, chaired by Marcus Foth: Workshop H Locative media, memory and presence in the city Katharine S. Willis, University of Siegen, Germany, willis AT locatingmedia.uni.siegen.de Karen Martin, University of Kent, UK, K.Martin-409 AT kent.ac.uk Segah…
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Event: Hack the government, 12 March 2011, Sieraad Amsterdam
(Open data & open gov are hot issues. The event “Hack the government” focusses on creative data reuse. Announcement in Dutch) Programma Hack de Overheid – 12 maart Openingsspreker van Hack de Overheid dit jaar is Toby Barnes, eigenaar van het BritseMudlark dat dingen maakt op de grens van ontwerp, spel en technologie. Hun project Chromaroma oogst lof…
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Three approaches of digital media and urban design
Yesterday Virtueel Platform launched a new book on best practices in the field of e-culture in The Netherlands (download regular pdf / pdf for ipad). The Mobile City was invited to contribute an essay for this book. In this article I described three (sometimes closely related) levels on which digital media plays a role in urban…
