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Spellbound: check in / check uit – Feb 9 2010 Amsterdam
[In Dutch] Met de toenemende digitalisering van de openbare ruimte, gaat de informatiesamenleving een nieuwe fase in. Een invasie van informatietechnologie neemt bezit van deze ruimte: van de OV-chipkaart en betaalmobieltjes tot genetwerkte auto’s en het real time web. Tezamen vormen ze een gigantisch net waarvan overheden, bedrijven maar ook burgers zelf gebruik maken om…
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Florida vs Hamburg
A little while ago I came across a manifesto called Not In Our Name, Marke Hamburg (Sign and Sight has an English translation). In this manifesto a group of 200 artists/squaters criticise their supposed role in the cycle of life of their city, Hamburg. Using artists as tools to ‘spice up’ a city leads to gentrification, they say.…
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Event: Designing for Immobility – Amsterdam & on-line, January 21, 20.30 CET
The world-wide mobility explosion is an enormous challenge for designers. How can we convince people that current forms of continuous mobility are no longer ecologically sustainable? Should mobility simply be made unaffordably expensive? Or can we design viable alternatives As a prelude to the ElectroSmog festival De Balie in Amsterdam will present a showcase of…
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Cartography: the old versus the new? an evening in De Balie
On December 14th 2009 De Balie – an Amsterdam-based center for culture and politics – organized an evening about old and new cartographies. Participants were Ferjan Ormeling (Emeritus Professor Cartography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University), Henk van Houtum (Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography, Head of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research), Maarten…
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“How can architects relate to digital media?” TMC keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’
(download as PDF >>) How can architects relate to digital media? The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’: outcomes and further thoughts written by Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal Introducing the main questions What do developments in digital media have to do with architecture? And how should architects and…
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Article in Second Nature journal about The Mobile City project and urban gaming
The second issue of the RMIT journal Second Nature is about “Games, Locative & Mobile Media”. I wrote a short article about urban games and their importance for the issues we address with The Mobile City. In this article I discern five possible ‘levels’ to understand urban games: (1) the city is often used as…
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Report of the Sentient Rotterdam Workshop (Nov 6th 2009)
On November 6th 2009 The Mobile City organized the Sentient Rotterdam Workshop in collaboration with Mark Shepard. About 20 participants from varying disciplines came together to discuss the role of sentient technology in urban culture. Participants were divided in small groups of 4-5 people to work on a possible intervention in the city of Rotterdam…
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Call for ‘digital facades’ workshop, Feb. 9-23 2010, Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain
Call for projects on digital facades: Open Up Deadline: December 10, 2009 Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010 Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain). Worskhop tutors: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo. Open Up is a workshop focused on the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado’s…
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8 Dec. 2009: workshop with Matt Adams from Blast Theory
Cultural Content on the Move: workshop with Blast Theory, 8 December 2009 Location: Virtueel Platform, Damrak 70, Amsterdam, Netherlands 9.30 am – 3pm Virtueel Platform (the Netherlands sector institute for electronic culture) and DISH conference partner will host a workshop on innovative new media applications for the heritage sector, with Matt Adams of internationally renowned group…
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Connectivity @ IABR (Rotterdam 2009)
Connectivity @ IABR (Rotterdam 2009) In 2009, The Mobile City organized a series of events at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), as part of the ‘Connectivity’ theme of the IABR. This was done in cooperation with the IABR, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA).
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CFP: mscapeFest09 in Tilburg, The Netherlands 25 &26 Nov!
mscapeFest is back: a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media enthusiasts, practitioners and facilitators. Taking into consideration the growth of the community and feedback from last year, we have decided to focus a little bit more on the interconnectedness of people by offering lots of discussion and networking time. There is…
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Three philosophical questions about the ‘sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City
At certain points in the history of architecture and urban planning, the internal debate on how to apply new technologies surpasses the boundaries of the discipline. At those times, the hopes and fears found in the disputes between architects, policy makers, engineers and planners are extended to a broader discussion about urban and societal change.…
