[the following blog post was written by Dennis Jansen  – thanks Dennis!] Interfacing with Connectivity: A Mini-Symposium Review Review of the “Mini-Symposium on Urban Interfaces” by the [urban interfaces]  research group at Het Huis, 30 November 2019. In celebration of the “Urban Interfaces” special issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, edited by Nanna Verhoeff, Sigrid…

  [urban interfaces] co-organizes the Media Architecture Biennale in 28 June – 2 July 2021, which will take place in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The theme is “Futures Implied”. For more information check out the MAB20 website: https://mab20.mediaarchitecture.org/! Extended deadlines Join the @Media Architecture Biennale (MAB), the world’s premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban…

[urban interfaces]’s Sigrid Merx participates in the following event:  https://www.nica-institute.com/urban-crisis-scapes-on-walks-and-ruins/ Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins Workshop organized by Eva Fotiadi and Maria Boletsi, in collaboration with Ipek Celik (Koç University), Amsterdam, Belle van Zuylenzaal, 16-17 May 2019 The workshop will focus on city-scapes that have recently been radically reconfigured through pervasive frameworks of crisis…

The following essay was written by Alvaro Lopez, as a final reflection on the [urban interfaces] critical making workshop “The Right to the City & Urban Commons”. Thanks Alvaro! Who’s the Rain Today???: Diffractive Spaces, Tentacular Thinking and Queer Interventions in the Reimagining  of Urban Interfaces Design concept: Who’s the Rain Today??? by Karoliina Haapalehto, Brian…

Michiel de Lange contribtued a chapter in the collection Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities” (Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott and Daniel Evans, eds.). In this essay,  de Lange pursues the idea of an ‘asynchronous smart city’ (as originally suggested by design researchers Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova), using the temporal…