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Report workshop day2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage”
Report workshop day 2 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage” Under the motto better late than never, the second part of the “Made By Us” Beijing Design Week workshop report. As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA have organized…
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Smart City World Congress Report
Last week we joined the Smart City world congress in Barcelona, a three-day event bringing together representatives of city governments, technology companies and academia with a common interest in the ways Smart Cities change the world. As the biggest organisation in the field of Smart Cities, the event was largely dominated by representatives of major…
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Embedded Researcher – Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis
Over the last few years, digital media has started to change the experience of the city in many ways. First, various parties in the city have started to produce, collect and publish lots of data about urban life. These data can be used to get new, real-time insights in social and spatial conditions, offering opportunities…
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Smart Citizens & Open Data
Future Everything has published a highly interesting publication titled Smart Citizens. The Mobile City contributed an essay: Open Data: From ‘Platform’ to ‘Program’.
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Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers (guest post by Katía Truijen)
Occasionally we post contributions from guest authors. This one below is a section from the interesting MA thesis by Katía Truijen. Enjoy! === Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers Katía Truijen – new media researcher This article is an excerpt of the MA thesis ‘Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices’. Give…
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Made By Us: using smart technologies for industrial heritage. Public evening November 7 2013, The New Institute, Rotterdam
On November 7 2013 The New Institute, the Netherlands’ new national institute for the creative industry, hosts an evening (in Dutch) about using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage. The evening is part of the larger project Made By Us, a collaboration between The new Institute and The Mobile City, to develop an ongoing dialogue around the concept of…
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Smart cities vs smart citizens
PBL expert meeting on Smart Cities with Dan Hill Over the last few years the South Korean New Town of Songdo has emerged as the epitome of the ‘smart city’ of the future – a city that uses software and sensor-driven feedback loops to optimize all kinds of infrastructural city functions. Songdo, planned to be…
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Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis @HOT100 Workshop Report
Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis was invited to contribute to the 2013 Hot100 program, a workshop with the best alumni in the arts, media and technology, which took place on Friday the 27th of September in the framework of Today’s Art Festival. So far an initiative of Virtueel Platform, this year it is the first time that…
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Public Space & The Public Good / Social Cities of Today
Social Cities of Today is a research project that investigates the role new media platforms can play in the creation of ‘Urban Publics’, groups of citizens who are organized around a common theme, issue, resource, goal, interest or geographical location. Here’s a first project update.
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Report workshop day1 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose industrial heritage”
As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA have organized a two-day workshop during the Beijing Design Week. In this workshop participants from various professional and national backgrounds address the reuse of former industrial plants through digital media technologies. The site we worked…
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Invitation to mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage” 27 Sept. 2013
The Mobile City and The New Institute in collaboration with CMoDA are very happy to invite you to the mini-symposium “Made By Us: Using Smart Technologies to Repurpose Industrial Heritage”, which is part of the full-day event “The Dao of Being Smart“, organized by CMoDA Beijing. Below is the flyer and invitation for the full event.…
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“Made By Us”: new program about industrial heritage and smart & social cities, Beijing/NL/Shenzhen
We are happy to announce Made By Us, a new project The Mobile City is partnering in with The New Institute. Made By Us is a six-month research-by-design program investigating creative reuses of former industrial plants. The challenge is to help design smart media interventions that will engage stakeholders in postindustrial heritage planning for abandoned factories. The…
