About: martijn

Full Name

Martijn de Waal

Website

http://www.martijndewaal.nl

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Martijn de Waal is a writer and researcher. Together with Michiel de Lange, he co-founded The Mobile City conference and weblog. His main themes of interest are new media and urban culture. He has worked with different partner organizations (Hivos, The Mondriaan Foundation, Dutch Public Broadcasting, The Dutch fund for Public Broadcasting, the Netherlands Architecture Institute) and lectured at different Universities and public institutions. The last few years he has contributed to several publications, amongst others the catalog for the 2007 International Biennal of Architecture in Rotterdam, the book MEDIACITY: Situations, Practices and Encounters published by the Bauhaus University Media City program, Vodfone's Receiver and others. Together with design studio Leon and Loes he participated in The International Biennale of Architecture in Shenzhen & Hong Kong in 2007. He is also connected with the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, and the department of mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. In Groningen he is currently finishing a PhD on new media and urban culture, as part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research group, headed by prof. Rene Boomkens.

Posts by martijn:

• 22 Aug 2010 The Best/Most Read Articles on Urban Culture & Mobile Media @ TheMobileCity.nl

• 10 Jun 2010 Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy

• 20 May 2010 Some notes on the design of pervasive games

• 09 Apr 2010 Cisco’s Urban Ecomaps and Medialab-Prado’s In the Air: How to move from awareness about environmental problems to action?

• 15 Mar 2010 Design Approaches for the 21st Century City

• 09 Mar 2010 Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects

• 26 Feb 2010 Sonic Acts 2010: On the Poetics of Hybrid Space

• 06 Dec 2009 “How can architects relate to digital media?” TMC keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’

• 20 Nov 2009 Report of the Sentient Rotterdam Workshop (Nov 6th 2009)

• 27 Oct 2009 Three philosophical questions about the ‘sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City

• 09 Oct 2009 Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform

• 03 Jul 2009 Interview with Mark Shepard: ‘critical design’, architecture, urbanism and location based media

• 25 Jun 2009 Digital Cities 6: urban media / urban informatics and different notions of public space

• 04 Jun 2009 Storytelling with Locative Media: Michael Epstein’s take on ‘terratives’

• 30 Apr 2009 Mediated Space. Or: How to translate the logic of media into architecture

• 29 Mar 2009 Semantic Wayfinding, mental maps and the keyhole problem of GPS-navigation

• 24 Feb 2009 Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: a matter of ‘U-City’ or ‘U-Citizens?’

• 30 Jan 2009 On the design of geographic interfaces: verisimilitude -vs- subjective experiences

• 28 Jan 2009 Film festival Rotterdam: What content makes Urban Screens interesting? Let’s move beyond the cinematic.

• 22 Dec 2008 Towards a Myspace urbanism?

• 16 Oct 2008 Rob van Kranenburg: The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID

• 02 Oct 2008 Interview with Adam Greenfield on designing for urban computing

• 12 Sep 2008 The Big Sort, The Uses of Disorder and mobile media

• 14 Aug 2008 ISEA 2008: Locative Media Core Works & Classifications

• 11 Aug 2008 ISEA 2008: Visualizing the Real Time City

• 18 Jul 2008 Scott McQuire’s The Media City

• 15 Jul 2008 The Mobile City @ ISEA2008

• 09 Jul 2008 Just out/upcoming: some interesting summer reading on the mobile city

• 12 May 2008 Is GPS-navigation turning us into ‘Men without Qualities’?

• 16 Apr 2008 Video as suburban condition

• 03 Mar 2008 Design of Urban Computing:ambient or foregrounding?

• 29 Feb 2008 Mobile City Conference Wrap-up

• 14 Feb 2008 The street of the future

• 13 Feb 2008 See you at Faraday’s. And leave your laptop at home.

• 22 Jan 2008 Mediacity conference @ Weimar: the design of urban situations

• 16 Jan 2008 Urban computing, Lifestyle management and Google Earth Urbanism

• 11 Jan 2008 Mobile City Fantasies @ CES

• 05 Jan 2008 Designing for Locative Media: seamless or seamful experiences?

• 05 Jan 2008 Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space (Call for Papers)

• 28 Dec 2007 Arithmetik Garden – RFID City

• 27 Dec 2007 Towards a Starbucks-urbanism?

• 20 Dec 2007 The local beat in Africa – brought to you by mobile phone

• 18 Dec 2007 Local knowledge and subcultural capital

• 17 Dec 2007 The iPod as an ‘urban centering device’

• 15 Dec 2007 Jane Jacobs, bloggy neighbourhoods and cell phone sidewalks

• 30 Nov 2007 Is Google Watching Us?

• 14 Nov 2007 Society of micro-control

• 02 Nov 2007 Chinese cities and Web 2.0

• 01 Nov 2007 Surveillance City

• 31 Oct 2007 Situated Technologies Pamphlet series

• 30 Oct 2007 Navigate, walk, burn calories, save the earth

• 29 Oct 2007 The social web and the public sphere