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ACTIVITIES
TALK
On 6 March 2013 Michiel de Lange gave a talk about Play & the City in Den Bosch at architecture center BAI. More info here >>.
RADIO
On 12 December 2012 Michiel de Lange was one of the participants in the public radio show Hoe?Zo!, about play, games and culture (in Dutch).
WORKSHOP
One Architecture asked Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange to assist in a workshop organized by Deltametropool about the future of metropolitan Netherlands on 27 − 28 November 2012.
INTERVIEW
On 28 November 2012 Play the City interviewed Michiel de Lange about smart cities, play, and ownership, as part of their Majority Report initiative.
INTERVIEW
Mid-October 2012 TU Delft’s Polis/Atlantis Magazine interviewed Michiel de Lange for the 23.2 fall edition about digital media and the future of urban design (pdf).
INTERVIEW
On 3 October 2012 The European Metropolitan network Institute interviewed Michiel de Lange about digital technologies and the city.
TALK
On 8 October 2012 Michiel de Lange gave a talk in the City Think Lab series about the future of the city at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. This evening was themed “Playing the City”.
EXPERT MEETING
On 4 October 2012 Michiel de Lange participated in an expert session called “Hands-on Urban Place-making: Cultural Interventions As Planning Tools”, that took place in Scherpenzeel.
TALK
On 4 October 2012 Martijn de Waal gave a talk at the conference Blogging The City in Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
On 26 September 2012 Michiel de Lange gave a talk and hosted a workshop at the Urbanism Week 2012 in Delft.
TALK
On 25 September 2012 Michiel de Lange gave a talk at “Stad, Spel en Digitale Media” (City, Play, and Digital Media) at CAST architecture center in Tilburg.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
On 25 September 2012 Martijn de Waal gave a workshop about Society 2.0 for Utrecht Municipality.
EXPERT MEETING
On 20 September 2012 Martijn de Waal was invited for an expert meeting on the future of the city, organized by the Raad voor de Leefomgeving.
EXPERT PANEL
On 2 July and 3 September 2012 Michiel de Lange was part of an expert panel about innovation in urban design at Stroom, The Hague.
EVENT ORGANIZATION
On 22 July 2012 Martijn de Waal co-organized and moderated the Dutch E-Culture Days @ World Design Capital Helsinki. At this event Michiel de Lange gave a talk about the lessons learned from the Social Cities of Tomorrow workshop and the Designing for Ownership workshop.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
From 9 to 14 July 2012, Michiel de Lange and Marc Tuters developed and gave a six-day workshop ’Designing for Ownership’ at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. The workshop was part of a series of Summer at Strelka workshops aimed at a practical change in the city’s microrayons. Michiel de Lange also gave a closing talk at Strelka.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Michiel de Lange co-organized the two-day international academic and public event The Citizen Scientist On The Move, that took place from 25 – 27 June 2012 at Utrecht University and Waag Society Amsterdam.
SYMPOSIUM
On June 6 2012 Michiel de Lange gave a presentation at the event ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses’ at Plymouth University in the UK.
MASTERCLASS
On 26 February 2012 Martijn de Waal gave a Masterclass at the Berlage Institute during the one-week masterclass called “Localizing Networks: Physical terminals for web 2.0 engines“.
EXPERT MEETING
On 12 December 2011 Michiel de Lange took part in a kick-off meeting to help develop a new series of monthly ‘City Think Lab‘ evenings for 2012 at Pakhuis De Zwijger. These events are organized by Inspiring Cities and various partner organizations – among others The Mobile City.
TALK
On 8 December 2011 Michiel de Lange gave a ‘Place-Mat‘ talk at Ymere housing corporation in Amsterdam about social media and urban quality.
WORKSHOP
On November 23 2011 Michiel de Lange was invited as an expert during the e-tourism strategy day organized by LAgroup and Waag Society in Pakhuis De Zwijger.
TALK
On 22 November 2011 Michiel de Lange gave a talk called Hoe overleef ik de Mediastad? (“how do I survive the media city?”) for the Broodje Kennis series of lectures at Spui 25 in Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam).
INTERVIEW
Journalist Tracy Metz interviewed The Mobile City for an article in Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The article “Vertrouwde vreemden vinden elkaar in mobiele stad” (in Dutch) appeared in the newspaper on 27 February 2012.
ACADEMIC COURSE
For fall 2011, The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange developed an academic course called “The Media City” for bachelor 2 and pre-master students at Utrecht University. Martijn de Waal was one of the invited guest lecturers.
WORKSHOP
The Mobile City’s Michiel de Lange participated in the panel “Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn“, about the future of locative media at ISEA2011 in Istanbul.
PUBLIC LAUNCH
The Mobile City presented the study ’Ownership in the Hybrid City’, on September 14 2011 at PICNIC in Amsterdam.
PUBLICATION
The Mobile City wrote a study titled ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’, about how digital technologies and e-culture can be used to engage people in complex urban ‘ownership’ issues. Download the study in English or in Dutch.
BOOK LAUNCH
The Mobile City contributed to the book Sentient City, edited by Mark Shepard. On May 14 2011 we give a presentation and moderate the Dutch book launch, organized by V2_ in Rotterdam.
RESEARCH PROJECT
In the spring of 2011, The Mobile City carried out a research project for Virtueel Platform. We researched how digital media design can provide citizens with a sense of ‘ownership’ with regard to their urban surroundings.
MODERATION
On March 23 and 24 2011, TMC’s Michiel de Lange moderated and co-organized two evenings about mobile gaming for Mediamatic’s Mobfest.
CONFERENCE RESEARCH, LECTURES & WORKSHOP
Wireless Stories is a four-month masterclass for digital media designers and traditional media makers organized by the Design department of the Sandberg Institute and the Dutch Media Fund. On February 17 2011, the event kicks off with a public conference. The Mobile City contributes research for the conference, gives two lectures, and acts as guest-instructors during the masterclass.
IN THE MEDIA
On October 23 2010 Deutschlandradio interviews TMC’s Martijn de Waal on the role of mobile media in urban culture.
CONFERENCE PANEL
TMC’s Martijn de Waal is a panellist at the MobileTextkulturen Conference in Berlin, organized by the Berliner Gazette.
WORKSHOP & LECTURE
The Mobile City provides an introductory lecture and acts as a workshop host at Lift@Home Pecs in Hungary, organized by Liftlab & Kitchen Budapest.
Mobile Media and Urban Design
In today's cities, our everyday lives are increasingly
shaped by digital media technologies. The Mobile City
is a research group that investigates this new urban
condition and its implications for urban design.
shaped by digital media technologies. The Mobile City
is a research group that investigates this new urban
condition and its implications for urban design.
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About Us
Who are we?
The Mobile City is an independent research group founded by Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange. The Mobile City investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and the implications for urban design. We like to collaborate with institutions, organizations and individuals from various disciplines who share our interest in these issues.
Aims
Activities
Scope
In our view it is no longer useful or even possible to understand urban life as separate from information and communication technologies. Today’s cities are shaped by a wide variety of digital technologies, with acronyms like GSM, GPS, CCTV , UMTS, LBS, AR, Wi-Fi, and RFID (or in plain English: mobile phone networks, satellite navigation, security camera’s, wireless data communication systems, location based services, augmented reality, chips and sensor-networks).
The city is physical and digital. It has become a ‘hybrid city’. Developments like these profoundly change our ideas of time and space, culture and identity, solidarity and citizenship.
As a consequence, urban design is expanding beyond architecture and urban planning. It includes all disciplines that contribute to the shaping of urban life: from architects and urban planners to policy makers; from media developers and artists to telecom companies; and from technology research to urban anthropology. We claim that the design of the hybrid city benefits from the mutual involvement of multiple disciplines.
In order to provide directions to the broad emerging field of new media urbanism, we specifically focus on three issues:
Board
The Mobile City is a foundation with two founding directors (Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange) and three board members. Members of the board are:
Chair: Emilie Randoe
Emilie Randoe (1963) is founder and director of Randoe Verandermanagement, a company specialized in enabling people to organize change in organizations or in networks of co-creation. Randoe Verandermanagement works for a variety of clients in sectors such as education, design, creative industry).
www.randoeverandermanagement.nl
Treasurer: Frank Kresin
Frank Kresin is currently Research Director at Waag Society and responsible for its research programme. It encompasses the fields of health care, cultural heritage, education, the public domain, urban reality and arts-science collaborations. Frank has a background as filmmaker; he has a master degree in Artificial Intelligence and served as programme manager at the Dutch Digital University Consortium.
www.waag.org/en/person/frank / (image credit: Marco Baiwir 2009)
Secretary: Marthijn Pool
Marthijn Pool is an architectural entrepreneur and founding partner of Space&Matter, an Amsterdam-based office for architecture, urban planning and concept design. Martijn has previously worked for various well-known architecture offices, and is a regular speaker at conferences and institutions worldwide.
www.spaceandmatter.nl
Contact us
If you want to get in touch or wish to collaborate, please reach us at info@themobilecity.nl. See the Contact page for more details.
Partners and sponsorships
The Mobile City wishes to thank its sponsors, partners and contributors that have enabled us to keep up this website and organize our events.
For 2011-2012 The Mobile City has received a generous grant from the Pauwhof Fonds.
The Mobile City collaborated with (amongst others) Virtueel Platform, ARCAM, Shanghai eArts, Waag Society, The Architectural League of New York, Kitchen Budapest, V2_, Cybercity Ruhr and Dynamic City Foundation, the Dutch Culture Centre (DCC) in Shanghai, the Netherlands China Arts Foundation, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) and the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA), the research groups New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture at the University of Groningen & Playful Identities at the the Erasmus University Rotterdam & Utrecht University. And we received grants from the Rotterdam municipality, the Rotterdam Trustfonds, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).