This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021 Rianne Riemens 25 April 2021  When data centers meet tulips: researching the energy transition through a spatial ethnography  “Middenmeer is known for its tulips. Google is proud that our newest datacenter is located here,  an investment of no less than €…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Informative Cities” 2021 Rianne Riemens April 21st, 2021 An ECO coin community for a greener economy?  New monetary systems, such as bitcoins, are increasingly introduced as alternative for formal  currencies. Especially small-scale, informal initiatives have the potential to foreground values that  remain underrepresented in institutionalized monetary…

This blog is a result of the graduate seminar series “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Rianne Riemens March 17th, 2021 Google is not a good neighbor:   platform presence contested  A new stream of activism contests the commercialization of public urban spaces by tech  companies. This type of activism critiques the rise of platform urbanism: the…

The [urban interfaces] project called Creative Urban Methods (CRUM) can be followed on a new page from now on: CRUM. Make sure to visit this webpage as well!

Written by Bastiaan van Manen   In the context of the current environmental crisis that our planet is facing, more and more disciplines are refocusing their attention on taking what Lupton (2019) has dubbed a more-than-human approach to understanding the world. This perspective involves recognizing the various ways in which the human and the “nonhuman”…