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Workshop with Eric Gordon urban gaming & civil participation on digital media platforms, 24 June 2014
As a follow-up event on Eric Gordon’s public lecture on June 23, we’re co-organizing a small closed workshop session with Eric Gordon and a number of urban game professionals on June 24, 2014. Workshop with Eric Gordon about urban gaming & civil participation on digital media platforms June 24, 2014 10:00 − 13:30 at FreedomLab,…
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Lecture Eric Gordon: Play, Games and Power (Amsterdam 23/6)
The VU Graduate School of Humanities in collaboration with NICA (and with the involvement of The Mobile City) organizes a lecture and masterclass with American researcher and game designer Eric Gordon.
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We are looking for an intern ‘smart cities’ (Dutch speaking)
This fall, together with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency The Mobile City will take part in a research project called Smart Cities in a Smart Society. We are looking for an intern that would like to assist us in this exciting new project!
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Athens Hackable Metropolis – workshop report
Invited by prof. Dimitris Charitos from the New Technologies Laboratory in Communication, Education and the Mass Media, Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, in the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, we ran a three-day workshop in Athens as part of our research into Hackable Cities. Post…
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Workshop Athens Hackable Metropolis May 5-7 2014
We are in Athens from May5-7 2014 organizing a workshop together with our friends from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athensth and the Hybrid City Conferences, as part of our research into Hackable Cities.
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The City as Interface
The City as Interface. How New Media Are Changing The City is a book written by The Mobile City co-founder Martijn de Waal. Read More
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Playing for the Future: event April 17 2014 about play, games and urban (re)developments
Last year, The Mobile City partnered in the project “Rezone Playful Interventions” about the use of playful design strategies to repurpose vacant spaces. In this project three teams composed of an architect and a game studio collaborated and created a temporary playful urban intervention for a near-vacant factory at the edge of the city center…
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“Smart City is opportunity to change the ‘defaults’ in our society” Report Meeting of the Minds Amsterdam
Last December, more than 150 professionals came together in an event organised by the city of Amsterdam, Cisco and Meeting of the Minds to debate on the trends of smart city development. One of the highlights was the vision on the development of smart cities presented by Maarten Hajer, director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment…
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The City as Interface
On the face of it, the rise of ‘urban media’ is mainly a practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these technologies also presents us with an important philosophical issue: How do they influence the way that the city functions as a community? This is…
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Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum’s GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium
Last week I visited the exhibition Move Still Move at Rento Brattinga Galerie in Amsterdam, an intriguing exploration of gps technology as an artistic medium by the artist duoPolakvanBekkum.
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Made By Us @ Shenzhen Biennale
We are excited to announce that the exhibition Made by Us that we have curated in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut will open on Dec 7 2013 at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture in Shenzhen.
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“Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design” – First Monday article
The Mobile City contributed a paper to the very interesting special November 2013 issue of First Monday called “Waves, Bits & Bricks: Media and The Social Production of Urban Space“. How has media affected cities in real, concrete terms? How do “bits” and “waves” become “bricks”? This large special issue, edited by Matteo Tarantino and Simone…
