The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit

This manifesto served as the starting point of our research project. Using ‘hacking’ as a lens to explore practices of collaborative citymaking, the book offers the hackable city as a collaborative, citizen centered alternative urban imaginary in lieu of dominant top-down smart city paradigms.

19-22 April 2016, Amsterdam, all day @HvA and Hermitage: Design & The City Conference 2016

From 19 to 22 April the Design & the City Conference will take place in Amsterdam. The conference explores citizen-centered design approaches for the smart city. Central theme is the role of design(ers) to create opportunities and practices for citizens,

Eindhoven Hackable World City: speculating on future investments for the city

 A while ago we were invited by Amsterdam based architecture and planning firm One Architecture to collaborate on a research project about the possible future of urban planning and policy in the Netherlands. The project was commissioned by Deltametropool Network for Metropolitan