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Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media
(This article was published a few days ago on Engaging Cities, as a guest contribution) Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media Michiel de Lange – The Mobile City The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design…
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How to design better cities with urban interventions and computer code?
How can we design urban objects that bring about an urban public sphere? And how can we make use of algorithms to make urban design more adaptive to the needs of citizens? These questions were addressed during the first Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam.
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Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what?
Report of City_Play_Data. Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the city. How do we design urban media that allow citizens to act? Can we use urban games to include citizens in urban planning? And how do we move beyond ‘gamificiation’ ?
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The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an Internet of Things to a Public Sphere of Things
Recently I contributed a chapter to the book Sentient City Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space edited by Mark Shepard. On May 14 2011 we will also take part in the book launch event in Rotterdam. At certain points in the history of architecture and urban planning, the disciplinary debate on how…