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

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on April 9, 2010. 2 Comments.

Recently I was a panelist at the Electrosmog Festival in Amsterdam. My session was called Hyper-mobility and the urban condition and featured two interesting projects that made use of digital media to attune our increasing mobility to the sustainable development of our cities: Cisco’s Urban Ecomap

TwitterHouse: an approach for urban design with new media

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on March 30, 2010. Tagged architecture, exhibition, social networking. 5 Comments.

About Twitterhouse Saturday March 27 2010 I attended the public presentation of the project TwitterHouse at Center for Architecture Arcam in Amsterdam. This project, initiated by Max Cohen de Lara and David Mulder of XML Architecture, Research and Urbanism, explores the potential of new media

Design Approaches for the 21st Century City

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on March 15, 2010. 6 Comments.

At The Mobile City, we are currently researching the design processes that shape the cities of the 21st century, and bumped into an interesting paradox (also pointed out by others): The experience of our present day city in every day life is increasingly a hybrid

Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on March 9, 2010. Tagged augmented reality. 3 Comments.

Last week our friends & collegues at Vurb and Non-Fiction organized an evening about the opportunities of Augmented Reality for architects. Layer-developer Johannes la Poutre presented some of his recent projects, and Ole Bouman – director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute – was interviewed

Sonic Acts 2010: On the Poetics of Hybrid Space

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on February 26, 2010. No comments.

I just visited an interesting panel on the Sonic Acts 2010 Conference called The Poetics of Hybrid Space. When over here at The Mobile City we talk about Hybrid Space, we usually refer to the work of Adriana de Souza e Silva who in several

Florida vs Hamburg

Written by Tijmen Schep. Posted on February 3, 2010. 1 Comment.

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A little while ago I came across a manifesto called Not In Our Name, Marke Hamburg (Sign and Sight has an English translation). In this manifesto a group of 200 artists/squaters criticise their supposed role in the cycle of life of their city, Hamburg. Using artists as tools

Cartography: the old versus the new? an evening in De Balie

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on December 21, 2009. Tagged cartography, locative media, mapping. 3 Comments.

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On December 14th 2009 De Balie – an Amsterdam-based center for culture and politics – organized an evening about old and new cartographies. Participants were Ferjan Ormeling (Emeritus Professor Cartography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University), Henk van Houtum (Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Political

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

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on December 6, 2009. Tagged architecture, BNA, report. 4 Comments.

(download as PDF >>) How can architects relate to digital media? The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’: outcomes and further thoughts written by Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal Introducing the main questions What do developments in digital media

Article in Second Nature journal about The Mobile City project and urban gaming

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on November 25, 2009. Tagged game, hybrid_space, locative media, play, urban_games. No comments.

The second issue of the RMIT journal Second Nature is about “Games, Locative & Mobile Media”. I wrote a short article about urban games and their importance for the issues we address with The Mobile City. In this article I discern five possible ‘levels’ to

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

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on November 20, 2009. No comments.

On November 6th 2009 The Mobile City organized the Sentient Rotterdam Workshop in collaboration with Mark Shepard. About 20 participants from varying disciplines came together to discuss the role of sentient technology in urban culture. Participants were divided in small groups of 4-5 people to

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

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on October 27, 2009. 2 Comments.

At certain points in the history of architecture and urban planning, the internal debate on how to apply new technologies surpasses the boundaries of the discipline. At those times, the hopes and fears found in the disputes between architects, policy makers, engineers and planners are

Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on October 9, 2009. 10 Comments.

At Picnic I attended an interesting session called The City as an Interaction Platform that took this theme as its point of departure: Cities have always been about providing frameworks of services to improve the quality of life for residents and businesses. How will social

PICNIC ’09 report 1: augmented reality

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on October 2, 2009. Tagged #picnic09, augmented reality. 2 Comments.

This year’s PICNIC (September 23-25 2009 in Amsterdam) had some really great sessions and speakers. The Mobile City couldn’t possibly attend everything. Therefore I will zoom in on two sessions that were particularly interesting for our themes. One on Wednesday Sept. 23, about augmented reality.

review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on August 8, 2009. Tagged hybrid_space, literature, review, urban_culture. 6 Comments.

In The Cybercities Reader (2004) Stephen Graham – at that time Professor of Urban Technology in Newcastle – bundles a great number of seminal texts about the intersections of digital media technologies and urban life. Some articles were written especially for this reader. Others were

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

Written by Martijn de Waal. Posted on July 3, 2009. Tagged commons, Hannah Arendt, history, hybrid_space, locative media, Lucy Suchman, participatory culture, Public space, public sphere, Richard Sennett, Serendipity, urban computing, urban_culture, wayfinding. 3 Comments.

Mark Shepard is a media architect and researcher. His current research investigates the influence of mobile and pervasive media, communication and information technologies on architecture and urbanism. He is one of the organizers of the 2006 symposium on Architecture and Situated Technologies. This fall, for

Digital Cities 6: urban media / urban informatics and different notions of public space

Written by Michiel de Lange. Posted on June 25, 2009. 7 Comments.

I attended the Digital Cities 6 Workshop this week in State College Pennsylvania (put together by Marcus Foth, Laura Forlano and Hiromitsu Hattori, thanks for that!). The workshop started from the notion that with the advent of urban informatics, it is now possible to collect

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