[urban interfaces] Blogs
Music in Tomorrow’s Urban Environments
Written by Leroy Roncken People dream of cities of tomorrow where problems of today are solved. These imagined utopias seem to get a step closer to reality in the recurring world expos, where people, visions, and technologies meet. The world expo of 2025 was recently announced to take place in Osaka Kansai, and the…
Read moreThe Sociotechnical Imaginary in Rutger Bregman’s Het Water Komt
Written by Melisse Vroegindeweij Sheila Jasanoff (2015) introduces the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries in Dreamscapes of Modernity as “collectively held, institutionally stabilized, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable through, and supportive of, advances in science and technology” (4). These imaginaries…
Read moreInterfacing with Connectivity: A Mini-Symposium Review – guest post by Dennis Jansen
[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…
Read moreUrban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins
[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…
Read moreGuest post Alvaro Lopez about the [urban interfaces] workshop: “Who’s the Rain Today???”
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…
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