This event has nothing to do with digital media per se, but it certainly looks interesting! http://www.ifhp.org/spontaneous-invitation 1 DAY SEMINAR worldwide examples Friday 14 October 10:00 – 17:00 at Amsterdam Roest, Czaar Peterstraat 213 , Oostenburgeiland During this one day seminar eight examples of
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Call for qualification Public Art Program San José, deadline 4 October 2011
We received this call for qualification for an Artist Opportunity in Silicon Valley, by Mary Rubin from the San José Office of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Program. SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER PUBLIC ARTOPEN CALL TO SUBMIT QUALIFICATIONSSUBMITTAL DEADLINE- Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11 P.M. PDT This is an online
CfP: Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media, March 16-18 2012, NC State University USA
Adriana de Souza e Silva sends us this CfP and conference announcement. Great lineup! 3rd Mobilities conference 2012 Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media Conference website and abstract submission: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/ From March 16-18 2012, the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Program and the
CONTEST: Satellite Magazine special issue about cities, Nov. 1 2011
Newly founded Satellite Magazine holds a writing contest, themed “cities”. We’re holding our first writing contest this fall. The winner will receive $500 and be published in our second issue, which will be released in early 2012. The contest theme is cities. All forms are
How to Design for ‘Ownership’ rather than for ‘Smart Cities’
How do we design urban technologies that engage and empower ‘publics’ (groups of people) to act on communally shared issues? That is the main theme of a new study (in Dutch) launched by The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform.
EVENT: Blowup: The Era of Objects, Sept 29 2011, V2_ Rotterdam
V2_ is organizing what looks to be a very interesting evening about the ‘Internet of Things’: Blowup: The Era of Objects Beyond the flying car: join top designers Julian Bleecker (Nokia, Near Future Laboratory), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Really Interesting Group), and Anab Jain (Superflux) in an
LECTURE SERIES: The Knight’s Move, Stroom, Den Haag 21/9, 27/10, 24/11 2011
Stroom (Center for Art & Architecture in Den Haag, Netherlands) is organizing what appears to be an interesting series of lectures about the future of architecture and urbanism. “The Knight’s Move“ is a series of yearly lectures by eminent international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening
EVENT: Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, Berlin, November 25 – December 12 2011
Looks like an interesting event: Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space November 25th – December 12th, 2011 House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany www.hkw.de Mobility has become one of the most important keywords in the discourse on globalisation, techno-economic change or the Information
CfP: The Internet of Things Workshop II: Builders at Play, Amstedam 2-4 September 2011
Our colleagues at Archis/Volume and Vurb are organizing a workshop on the internet of things and architecture, and looking for participants. See also an earlier write-up by The Mobile City of their call. Archis/Volume and VURB present the Internet of Things Workshop II: Builders at Play.
EVENT: Tracing Concepts, In, Out and Through Computing, Maastricht, 21 July 2011
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240618459295530 Thursday, July 21 · 2:00pm - 11:00pm Location Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 Maastricht, Netherlands Created By Edwin Gardner More Info Launching of the Tracing Concepts website and publication 14:00 – 16:00 Launch & Presentations Edwin Gardner & Marcell Mars 16:00 – 16:30 Break 16:30 –
EVENT: Interaces and metropolises 8th encounter between French and Swiss urban planners, Lausanne, 8 July2011
For our francophone readers who are in the Lausanne-area: this seems like an interesting gathering, taking place tomorrow: Vendredi 08 juillet 2011 | Lausanne (Suisse) Interfaces & métropoles Huitième rencontre franco-suisse des urbanistes Interaces and metropolises 8th encounter between French and Swiss urban planners Publié le lundi
CFP WORKSHOP:Re-thinking user-centered design with new forms of end user empowerment, Alghero, 13-9-2011
Re-thinking user-centered design with new forms of end user empowerment A Workshop at CHITALY (http://www.architettura.uniss.it/chitaly2011/index.php/eng) Date: 13 September 2011 – Alghero Organisers: Cristiano Storni, Liam Bannon, Luigina Ciolfi (University of Limerick, Ireland), Francesca Bria (Imperial College London, UK) For more information please visit: http://chitaly-empowerment-workshop.blogspot.com/ Background
LECTURE: Appsterdam Weekly Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures, Wednesdays 12:30, Amsterdam
This is an interesting initiative: Mike Lee is trying to convince all app makers to come down to Amsterdam to set up shop here. Hear Hear! To get the energy flowing, he is starting a weekly lecture series over lunchtime on wednesday’s, starting next week:
PANEL DISCUSSION: Cognitive Cities Salon Amsterdam, June 30, Amsterdam.
Time Thursday, June 30 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location De Verdieping Wibautstraat 127 Amsterdam, Netherlands “The synthesis of architecture and network technologies.” We hope to see many of you at our first iteration of the Cognitive Cities Salon in Amsterdam. It is our combined pleasure
Internship-opportunity @ Virtual Platform & The Mobile City
Get involved in organising a big, international event that Virtueel Platform and The Mobile City will be holding in February 2012 in Amsterdam on the theme of digital media and social design