Michiel de Lange recently contributed a chapter to the edited book Cartographic temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.

Urban Friction-Flyer Urban processes have been impacted by frictions all throughout history. The remarkable pace and dynamics of the current phase of global urbanization in the age of mediatization, datafication, and pervasive connectivity suggest a new age where insular, political boundaries have come to shift radically. Perhaps to a larger extent than before, people are…

Paul Schmidt wrote a new blogpost on the urban intervention “Street Stories Springweg”, in the context of the Media and Culture BA course The City as Stage. Read it here.

Sergio Martínez Luna holds a PhD in Humanities from Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (UC3M). His dissertation explores the articulations between theories of image and vision and the concept of culture in the fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies. He works as a professor in Visual Rhetoric at the Department of Philosophy,…

Boekman 111 is a special issue on art, media and performance in (urban) public spaces, for which Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff wrote an essay on urban data visualisation (in relation to the recent elections), and Sigrid Merx contributed an essay on performance in the city. See this link for more information.