– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – It is difficult to explain to my German musician peers the idea that in Groningen one cannot simply perform music in the street. The idea that taking up sonic space is restricted, is well-understood: it’s an unwritten rule…

– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – The recent debates concerning the big technology establishments within the major cities such as New York and Berlin caused a clash between big technology companies aiming to establish headquarters, business venues within the strategic locations of cities, and…

– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – The right to the city also involves the right to sound. The collectively shared tangible and intangible urban resources of urban life make up a soundscape is subject the variety of uses of the public space by strangers…

— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During the course of the Urban Friction seminars, we discovered the potential socio-political and cultural repercussions of frictional interventions and engagements in urban life. As the etymology of the word suggests, friction means “rubbing” or “breaking”, which underlines physical connotations. However, in…

— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During SPRING festival in May 2018, I visited the performance piece Think Much. Cry Much. by Rima Najdi, which took place within the URBAN HEAT project initiated by the Festival in Transition network. Rima Najdi’s piece came forth from her travels though…