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Urban Sounds and the Right to Headphones
– 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…
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Agonistic Interfaces: A critical exploration of StalkShow through politics and curation
— 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…
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Visiting guest: Helen Pritchard
As an artist and geographer, my interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, Design and Feminist TechnoScience. My practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the impact of computational practices on our engagement with environments. Central to my work…
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Visiting guest: Saskia Freeke
I’m an artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer and educator. My work focuses on structure, geometry and playfulness. A big part of my artistic practice is my ongoing daily art project that I started January 2015. Here I explore and experiment with generative patterns and animations daily. You can follow my daily art on…
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“Situated Installations for Urban Data Visualization: Interfacing the Archive-City” by Nanna Verhoeff and Karin van Es
From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and…
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