[urban interfaces]

[urban interfaces] is a platform for a critical investigation of urban interfaces for creative and participatory engagement at the crossing of academic research and cultural practices. Focusing on mobile and situated media, arts, and performances, the platform brings together and initiates critical reflections on, and actual interventions in, these socio-spatial activities and their shaping and staging of urban culture.
[urban interfaces] is an initiative of the interdisciplinary Department for Media and Culture Studies (MCW) at Utrecht University and collaborates with an expanding (international) network of academic and cultural partners.

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19 January 2019

New Chapter “Situated Installations for Urban Data Visualization: Interfacing the Archive-City” by Nanna Verhoeff

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible ...

15 January 2019

Stand By Me

A Citizen’s Right to Being Visible in the City “–What do we know of the man? Absolutely nothing. We don’t have an inkling of his past. That ...

08 January 2019

Reoccupying Public Space

The Urban Frictions graduate seminar 2017-2018 provided insights into the intricate processes of developing, as well as analyzing urban interfaces, as a ...

07 December 2018

THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: the [urban interfaces] graduate seminar 2018-2019

New technologies and datafication in so-called smart cities affect how we interface with the city. Social, economic and technological changes also lead to ...

07 November 2018

Contribution to Knack Weekend Magazine on Instagram and the city

Belgian magazine Knack Weekend featured an item (in Dutch) about the ways in which social media like Instagram influence the design of cities. The basic ...

07 October 2018

Contribution to article “How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces”

A while ago I contributed to a story “How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces” written by Emily Matchar for Smithsonian ...

07 August 2018

Talk “Critical making of Public Urban Interfaces: an Approach to Designing Frictional Data Dashboards”

On Wednesday 27 June 2018 I gave a short presentation at the NECS2018 conference in Amsterdam. In the presentation I talked about the issue of engaging ...

19 June 2018

New chapter “From real-time city to asynchronicity: exploring the real-time smart city dashboard”

Fresh from the press, this interesting edited volume by colleagues Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott and Daniel Evans, ...

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