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CfP Hybrid City Conference in Athens
We are very pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Hybrid City Conference that takes place in Athens from September 17-19 2015, where The Mobile City’s Martijn de Waal will be giving a keynote address.
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Klik. Like! Share. Hoe digitale media de publieke ruimte veranderen
The Mobile City introduces a model to think about social organization through digital media and its consequences for the public sphere.
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Book “Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” now available as free pdf
It is a pleasure to announce that the edited volume “Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” has been published by Amsterdam University Press. The book is also available as a freely downloadable Open Access publication via http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=524070. Below the kind endorsements by Mathias Fuchs and Douglas Rushkoff, the Table of Contents, and the cover. “Playful Identities is an…
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New article “Playful planning: citizens making the smart and social city”
A while ago I contributed an article about urban play and games and citizen engagement to the ECLECTIS final report “A contribution from cultural and creative actors to citizens’ empowerment”, on the invitation of Karien Vermeulen, Head of Programme Creative Learning Lab at Waag Society. ECLECTIS stands for “European Citizens’ Laboratory For Empowerment: Cities Shared”. It is a European cultural cooperation project…
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Publicatie & Event 3 Feb 2015 (Amsterdam): Publieke Ruimte Publieke Zaak
Publieke Ruimte – Publieke Zaak Strategieën voor publiek domein [An English summary of this research program can be found here] Programma: Dinsdag 3 februari 19:00 Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam Reserveren: via de website van De Zwijger Drie digitale publicaties: Trancity: publiek domein Schilderswijk; DUS Architects: de WoonCoöp; The Mobile City: Klik. Like! Share. Hoe digtiale…
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“Binnen de lijnen” – een publiek kunstproject over de publieke ruimte en publieke zaak in de Haagse Schilderswijk
Op een zonnige woensdag op 1 oktober 2014 verzamelt zich in de vroege middag een groeiend aantal kinderen en hun ouders en begeleiders op het Oranjeplein aan de rand van de Haagse Schilderswijk. Zij staan klaar om samen te werken aan een kleurrijk publiek kunstwerk. Dit kunstwerk wil het thema publieke ruimte zichtbaar en bespreekbaar…
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Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making
Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making is a publication that serves as an agenda setting discussion piece about the role of digital technologies in the city and the future of urban design.
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Invitation “Binnen de lijnen”, exploring public space through participatory media art, Oct. 1 2014 13:00, Den Haag
[this announcement is in Dutch only, sorry..] The Mobile City participeert in het project Publieke Ruimte – Publieke Zaak van Trancity en partners. Als onderdeel van dit project hebben wij LUSTlab gevraagd om een interventie te ontwerpen die het gebruik van publieke ruimte in de Haagse Schilderswijk zichtbaar en daarmee bespreekbaar maakt. Op 1 oktober…
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Publication: Rezone Playful Interventions – Spelen voor de toekomst
Last year The Mobile City was a partner in the project Rezone Playful Interventions. In this project three teams of an architect and a game studio created a temporary playful urban intervention for a near-vacant factory at the edge of the city center of Den Bosch.
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How games are playing us – Eric Gordon on civic gaming
Many governments have over the last few years taken an interest in the use of games and playful strategies for interacting with – or even ‘empowering’ – their citizens. “How can we use games for civic purposes?” is the main research question for designers working in this context. When Eric Gordon visited Amsterdam for a…
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NWO KIEM funds new research program “Hackable Metropolis Amsterdam”
We are happy to announce that NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) has granted funding to our research project “Hackable Metropolis Amsterdam: investigating the future of city-making in urban lab Buiksloterham”. The project is a collaboration between Michiel de Lange (project leader; Utrecht University, The Mobile City) & Martijn de Waal (University of Amsterdam,…
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