To prepare for this meeting you are required to read the following text and excerpt as an inspiration, to understand locality and site-specificity that entails an inherently comparative perspective on urban frictions. Keep in mind you will be employing the following readings as a lens to analysis the projects mentioned below. You are also required…

The third session on “Urban Interventions and Critical Making” on the 28th of February is approaching soon. This is setup as a stepping stone/brainstorming session for the “Workshop Critical Making of Frictional Urban Interfaces”. In this session, we will discuss how making and hacking haven’t always been considered as synonyms. Nonetheless, we see that both…

In this session, we will address urbanity, political participation, temporality, technological development, and performing the civic engagement. These topics are becoming increasingly entangled as the concept of urban publicness gains more influence in the fields of design and technological development. Appropriately so, as it aids us in understanding how digital technologies can support citizen empowerment…

In the first session, Michiel de Lange, Sigrid Merx, Hira Sheikh and Nanna Verhoeff will briefly introduce the three central frameworks that will be used to discuss some fundamental theoretical questions that have formed and challenged urban frictions through-out the seminar. The three central frameworks being: 1) frictions in participatory culture, 2) urban publicness and civic…

Michiel de Lange recently contributed a chapter to the edited book Cartographic temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.