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New Speakers ‘Designing the Hybrid City’: MIT Senseable City Lab and Anne Nigten
We are again very happy to announce two new speakers to the ‘Designing the Hybrid City‘ line up (Shanghai August 16-17). The MIT Senseable City Lab is a research group that explores the “real-time city” by studying the increasing deployment of sensors and networked hand-held electronics, as well as their relationship to the built environment. Its…
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New Speakers @ ‘Designing the Hybrid City’: Isaac Mao, Li Zhenhua, Christian van ‘t Hof
We have added three more speakers to the line up for our Designing the Hybrid City-event this summer in Shanghai, as part of the Adaptation Festival: Isaac Mao Li Zhenhua Christan van ‘t Hof See the program for more details.
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Cisco’s Urban Ecomaps and Medialab-Prado’s In the Air: How to move from awareness about environmental problems to action?
Recently I was a panelist at the Electrosmog Festival in Amsterdam. My session was called Hyper-mobility and the urban condition and featured two interesting projects that made use of digital media to attune our increasing mobility to the sustainable development of our cities: Cisco’s Urban Ecomap (part of Connected Urban Development ) presented by Bas Boorsma and In…
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Event: Augmented Reality Dev Camp – Mediamatic, April 17 2010
Mediamatic brings together experts from all relevant fields on Augmented Reality and explore the practicalities of real world AR in a friendly, collaborative setting. On this day we have short talks, hands-on demos, ‘BarCamp’-style ad hoc initiatives and an open, inclusive perspective on what Augmented Reality can do for society, business, culture and politics. when:…
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First keynotes Designing the Hybrid City Confirmed
We are proud to announce that Jack Qiu has confirmed as a keynote speaker at our event Designing the Hybrid City this summer in Shanghai. Jack Qiu – associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jack Qiu’s academic interests include Internet and society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and class, late…
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Workshop: Best Scene in Town – architecten vs. game designers (Amsterdam, April 14th)
The Mobile City takes part in this workshop on game desgin in the ‘digital city’ Hoe ziet de digitale stad er uit door de ogen van een game ontwikkelaar en architect? Kom 14 april naar de workshop GPS games en routes maken met Martijn de Waal (The Mobile City) en Kars Alfrink (Hubbub). Zij delen…
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Event: Visible Cities #03: urban gaming (Amsterdam, April 7)
Wednesday | 07 April 2010 | De Verdieping @ TrouwAmsterdam | Wibautstraat 127 | start 20:00 | Entrance 2,50 ———————————————————————— Guests: Kars Alfrink (Hubbub), Michiel de Lange (The Mobile City) and James Burke (VURB) The widespread employment and adoption of ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and mobile media into the urban environment have unforeseen implications for…
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The World in a Shell – March 27 – April 18 2010 NAi Rotterdam
From March 27 through April 18, traveling artist Hans Kalliwoda camps out in a high-tech mobile house (The World in a Shell) on the property of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. The World in a Shell can be converted into a museum, movie theatre or laboratory. For five years, Kalliwoda and Delft…
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Book: Eric Gordon – The Urban Spectator
http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/eric_gordon_book_interview_urban_spectator_american_concept_cities_kodak/ In The Urban Spectator, I look at how practices of media spectatorship, from the handheld camera to radio and television and the digital computer, have influenced the way Americans have experienced and ultimately designed their cities. Taking photographs, viewing movies, listening to radio, using a computer, doing a Google search on a mobile phone,…
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Event: 2nd Open Ubiquitous City Seminar & 1st International UBI Summer School 2010 – Oulu (Finland) May 31- June 4th
2nd Open Ubiquitous City Seminar http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/2nd-Open-Ubiquitous-City-Seminar 31 May 2010 Oulu, Finland This high profile seminar features many distinguished international experts addressing various aspects of ubiquitous and urban computing. The seminar is open and free to the general public. Location: City Library, Kaarlenväylä 3, Pakkala Hall Time: 9-16 Speakers: Professor Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:…
