Frank Kresin from Waag Society is organizing a small get-together next week: At the crossroads between technical innovation, economic mutations and social transformations, which “Digital Disruptions” will become central in the next few years? What are the issues and challenges that we can no longer ignore? Fing, an independent think/do tank on digital transformations, has…

Ava Fatah, who presented at our Social Cities of Tomorrow event, sent us this announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS (submission 20 July 2012) MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2012 November 15-17, 2012 Aarhus, Denmark Building on the successful event in Vienna 2010, Media Architecture Biennale 2012 brings together artists, practitioners and researchers from academia and industry in the…

Porting the logics of online culture to the city is a big theme nowadays. This is an interesting evening about redefining ‘ownership’ in the contemporary city (in Dutch): Naast het delen van auto’s ontstaat steeds meer uitwisseling van goederen en informatie maar ook van plekken tussen bewoners. Meestal binnen een stad maar soms ook in…

As part-time lecturer at Utrecht University, TMC’s Michiel de Lange is one of the co-organizers of this event: With the advent of digital and mobile technologies scientific knowledge production has changed profoundly. As interactive, affordable, networked and ubiquitous technologies they invite people to engage with, alter and probe scientific ‘facts’. Play is essential to think…

(Via http://varnelis.net/blog/mit_htc_forum_2009) Javier Arbona, Mark Jarzombek, and Kazys Varnelis Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks Tuesday, April 7 6:30 pm Room 3-133 “Has a blog actually had a significant impact on a building in the process of being designed or built? What was…

Three paralel conferences are organized in Barcelona Spain: 1) mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society 2) EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government 3) mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development These conferences will be held during 2-3-4 September, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain as part of Mobile…

Academic MindTrek 2009 Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops We are pleased to invite you to the Academic MindTrek conference from September 30th – 2nd October, which brings together a cross-disciplinary crowd of people to investigate current and emerging topics of media in the ubiquitous arena. Media to be discussed range from business, social and…

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy A special double issue featuring the essays: Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy – Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces – Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko Download a free PDF here, or buy a printed copy from Lulu.com Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf…

James Steward sent us an email announcing the following workshop, which might be of interest to The Mobile City readers: “Placema(r)king: Brands versus Tags” 16-17 October 2008 placemarking – placemaking: brands versus tags This workshop pits brands against tags and explores their respective roles in facilitating or hindering social interaction and meetings between people. A…

Oswald Devisch from the department of Architecture and Arts, PHL University College, Belgium emailed us with the request to put up the following announcement: Job description At the department of Architecture and Arts, PHL University College, Belgium there is currently a PHD vacancy ‘A research on the use of Ubiquitous Urban Games to generate Mental…