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Open Call: Games for Cities Game Jam Utrecht. Join us to design a city game on refugees Nov 23/24 2016
Dear Designers, Social Scientists, Technologists, Game and City enthusiasts: So you’re interested in cities, migration, and how games can tackle city challenges. In this open call, the Games for Cities program invites you to submit your vision for migration and how gaming methods can help cities adapt to unpredictable changes. See the game design parameters…
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CfP: Round n Around Design Lab on Biking in Sao Paulo. Nov 7-10 2016
Round N Around Design Lab setup See here for the full call and project webpage The participants of Round N Around Design Lab will be invited to collectively think of solutions towards better biking conditions for the future. On 25th of September, we realised a workshop where we mapped the challenges and opportunities of our…
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CFP Training School Games for Cities (Amsterdam Oct 10-14 2016)
October 10-14 Amsterdam Deadline: August 28 Open call (http://cyberparks-project.eu/training-schools) to participate in the Games for Cities training school, taking place in Amsterdam from October 10-14 2016. The Mobile City is one of the partners in this project. In the Games for Cities Training School, participants will explore the design of playful installations and urban games…
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Essay (in Dutch) “Stories about smart cities: how citizen can identify with their city”
Recently I wrote an essay at the invitation of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). In the essay (Dutch), I argue that the lack of appealing narratives about smart cities is one of the reasons why citizen engagement is still such a big unresolved question. I discuss two emerging alternative narratives that indeed do…
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Call workshop “Playable Cities: The City as Digital Playground”, Utrecht June 28–30 2016
I am one of the co-organizers of this workshop at Intetain 2016. Our friends from Bristol’s Playable City project – who coined the term – will come an give a talk! PLAYABLE CITIES: THE CITY AS A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND This workshop will be held as part of the INTETAIN 2016 conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June…
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New publication “The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit”
As part of our The Hackable Research project, we are proud to announce The Hackable City Research Manifesto. See The Hackable City website for more information about our research project The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit Cristina Ampatzidou, Matthijs Bouw, Froukje van de Klundert, Michiel de Lange, Martijn de Waal In a…
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Looking for Interns / Graduation Projects for Medialab Project on Rainproofing Amsterdam
From February to June 2016 The Mobile City, in close cooperation with One Architecture and Rainproof will run a project in the Medialab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. There are still a few opportunties open to participate in this, if you are looking for an internship or Graduation project. You can apply here. More…
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Digital Cities 9 Workshop on Hackable Cities Programme
Digital Cities 9 Workshop “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change” 27 June 2015, University of Limerick The Digital Cities workshop series started in 1999, and is the longest running academic workshop series that has followed the intertwined development of cities and digital technologies. Earlier years have seen papers presented at Digital…
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Newspaper article “A truly smart city is a playful city” (Parool, May 30 2015)
For the Saturday May 30 2015 edition of national newspaper Parool (with a strong basis in Amsterdam), I wrote an opinion article called “Een echte slimme stad is een speelse stad” (“A truly smart city is a playful city” – available online in Dutch). See below. Hi-res pdf file of “Een echte slimme stad is…
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Lecture (11/6): Hybrid City Storytelling – Dimitris Charitos
We are pleased to host our good friend and partner in various projects Dimtris Charitos of the Athens Hybrid City Conference here in Amsterdam. For everyone interested, he will give a lecture on hybrid city storytelling. Loading… Lecture Designing immersive and hybrid spatial interfaces and experiences Dimitris Charitos (University of Athens / Hybrid City Conference…
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NWO Creative Industries funds “Hackable City” project
We are happy to announce that NWO has funded our project “The Hackable City: Collaborative City making in Urban Living Lab Buiksloterham”. The project is funded through NWO’s Creative Industries Embedded Research program. Project leader is Martijn de Waal. The project runs from April 1 2015 until April 1 2016. Against the background of the CLICKNL Smart…
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The Mobile City zoekt Stagiaire
The Hackable City, Collaborative Citymaking in Urban Living Lab Buiksloterham Wat is de rol van nieuwe media in het betrekken van burgers in een ‘hackable’ proces van stadmaken? En wat zijn de mogelijkheden en uitdagen voor burgers, ontwerp professionals in dit proces? De Universiteit van Amsterdam start samen met One Architecture, The Mobile City en…
