Martijn de Waal (1972) is a writer, researcher and strategist, working in the field of digital media and (urban) culture.
He has worked with and for various clients and organizations such as The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Open Society Foundation, The Architectural League of New York, Lift@Home, Kitchen Budapest, The Mondriaan Foundation and Dutch Public Broadcasting.
He is part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research group at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, and connected to the department of mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media.
Michiel de Lange (1976) is a part-time Lecturer in New Media Studies at Utrecht University, and a researcher and adviser of new media and urbanism. He is trained as a cultural anthropologist, and holds a PhD in philosophy (2010) with a dissertation about mobile media technologies and urban identities. He collaborated in a locative media art & science project (www.nomadicmilk.net). He worked for Knowledgeland, a Dutch think-tank that aims to strengthen the knowledge-based society. He also worked for Cybersoek, a computer neighborhood center in Amsterdam. He is advisor e-culture at Mediafonds.
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Who are behind The Mobile City?
The Mobile City was founded in 2007 by Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange.
The project started as a collaborative effort to translate our respective PhD research projects to the practical field. We observed huge discrepancies between (mostly academic) theories about ‘cybercities’, ‘augmented cities’, or ‘smart cities’, and the actual design of cities by both media developers and artists who – willingly or not – intervene in urban culture, and by a majority of architects and planners who struggle to come to terms with fast-paced technological developments. While aims to understand and create better cities frequently overlap, vocabularies and conceptual tools do not. It is from this intention to connect stakeholders and issues, and to advance shared concepts and knowledge that The Mobile City was founded. We are trained as academics, and have ample experience in professional fields concerned with new media and urban design.
The Mobile City is based in the Netherlands.
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You can contact us via info@themobilecity.nl. You can also reach us separately by using <first name>@themobilecity.nl.
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