To the most recent edition of New Amsterdam Magazine, #10, [urban interfaces] contributed an article about The Hackable City. The online issue of this article called “Hacking Buiksloterham: How Digital Media Can Democratize City-Making” can be found here.

Recently, Michiel de Lange wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay, he suggests three alternative imaginaries for smart and social cities: data city, playful city and maker city. All of these imaginaries have hackability as a central quality. A scan of the article can be…

“”The Netherlands are unsafe. The Netherlands are being islamised. The Refugees are threatening our well-fare state.” Is that true?” RMA student Paul Schmidt wrote a blogpost about the The Art of Data Politics hackathon we organised together with SETUP last month. You can find it here. Check it out!

Imagine that there are no mobile phones, which place could be your meeting place in Utrecht? Help our visiting PhD student with her research on the meaning and images of meeting places in Utrecht! Meltem’s research is about the changing behaviours in organizing our meetings through mobile communication technologies. She is conducting a survey in Utrecht with…

This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and can be, constituted, provoked, threatened, understood, and represented. This includes examining the role played in the formation of publics by new on- and offline infrastructures, data visualisations, social and economic practices, research methods and creative practices, and emerging and future technologies. Specifically, the event…