Author Archive: Michiel de Lange
Graduate seminar session 1: The Right to the City & Urban Commons
Session 1 of the Graduate seminar “The Right to the City & Urban Commons” takes place on Feb. 12 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 new urban frictions, and increasingly put strain on collectively shared urban commons and…
Read moreTHE 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 new urban frictions, and increasingly put strain on collectively shared urban commons and the right to the city. This shifting landscape of urban politics and power dynamics and the role of media,…
Read moreContribution 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 idea is that an increasing number of cities and (cultural) organizations are attempting to create picturfe-pretty ‘Instagrammable’ experiences. I was interviewed by the author, Nathalie Le Blanc who found me through this earlier…
Read moreContribution 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 Magazine. I had kind of forgotten about it, until I was contacted by another journalist interested in Instagram Urbanism, who had found me via this story. Here’s the quote. How Instagram Is…
Read moreTalk “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 people with urban data and frictions through alternative approaches to data dashboard design, something I have been interested in for some time. In the talk I briefly spoke about…
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