We received a call for the Living Labs Global Award 2012, which may be of interest to you since many of the categories have something to do with smart uses of technologies: Since 2009, the Living Labs Global Award has worked together with cities in Europe,
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CfP: MAS Context special issue about ‘ownership’, deadline Jan. 9 2012
Something is in the air.. This is a call from MAS Context. MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields
CONTEST: “Panopticon as a metaphor of the Internet of Things”, deadline January 31 2012
The use of Bentham’s panopticon in analyses of urban new media is widespread (we’ve done it on this blog here and here). For Foucault the circular prison structure became the emblem of modern institutionalized ‘disciplinary societies’. Despite Deleuze’s observation in ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control‘
CONFERENCE: Home Sense or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’, December 9, Rotterdam
HOME SENSE or ‘Dwelling and the Internet of Things’ http://www.v2.nl/events/one-day-conference-the-internet-of-things What are the consequences and questions for our home-environment in relation to the Internet of Things? This one day conference will bring together a variety of researchers throughout the diverse disciplines. We will present and
WORKSHOP: Pachube “Breathe, Amsterdam”, November 18 2011, Amsterdam
The Amsterdam #IoT community is organizing this workshop, with a focus on air quality data: Where’s the data? Technology has progressed to the point that we as citizens with concerns or interests can leverage open source hardware and software together with cloud platforms like Pachube
LECTURE: Program Your City, November 15 2011, Harvard University, Boston
Marcus Foth is giving a talk about open data and urbanism: Program Your City: Legal and Governance Issues of an Urban Integrated Open Data API Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology Tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor RSVP required
LEZING: The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard, 27 Oct 2011, Stroom Den Haag.
The Knight’s Move: Mark Shepard http://stroom.nl/activiteiten/lezing_symposium.php?l_id=2472204 Donderdag 27 oktober 2011, 20 uur Locatie: Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag Voertaal: Engels Entreeprijs: € 5,- (overmaken op ING-rekening 605409 van Stroom Den Haag onder vermelding van de naam van de lezing) Reserveren verplicht: zie formulier onderaan deze pagina De Amerikaan Mark
EVENT: Next Nature Power Show, 5 November 2011 19:30-22:00, Amsterdam
Next Nature explores the changing relation between people, nature and technology, and organizes a fourth edition of the Powershow: The Next Nature Power Show is an intellectual spectacle where artists, scientists, designers, filmmakers, politicians and philosophers present their radical ideas, visionary statements and powerful images
EVENT: Play the City! October 14 – 16 2011, Amsterdam
Can citizens and local stakeholders collaborate in designing their urban environment by playing a city game? Our friends at The Resonsive City have developed this into a project called Play the City! After Istanbul, this is now being trialled in Amsterdam Noord under the name Play
LECTURE: Christian Licoppe on the Social Network City, 13 October 2011 Utrecht
tIP lecture #2: Christian Licoppe on the Social Network City http://www.deltametropool.nl/nl/tip2_social_network_city Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences and Association Deltametropolis invite you to the International Perspectives: Social Network City. A lecture by Christian Licoppe on the development of Urban Public Places into ‘Hybrid Ecologies’ on Thursday October
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
SEMINAR: The Spontaneous City, 14 October 2011 Amsterdam
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
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
CALL for projects: Spontaneous Interventions US pavilion @Architecture Biennale 2012. Deadline: 6 Feb. 2012
This is an interesting call, many overlaps with the ‘commons’ themes addressed in our Social Cities of Tomorrow conference: Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012). In recent years,