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Chapter in new publication on “Controversing the smart city”
Chapter published in “Speculative Design Methods for Citizen Engagement in Smart Cities Research”
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Seminar series 2021-2022 “The Magic City” fully booked!
Our yearly [urban interfaces] seminar series, organized as part of RMeS, is themed “The Magic City”. This year there is a lot of interest in the seminar, we’re fully booked with over 20 participants. Dates: 5 April 2022 (15:00 – 17:00), 26 April 2022 (15:00 – 17:00) and 10 May 2022 (14:00 – 17:00 with
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The Lives of Deltas: A Research Exchange on Sustainability and the Imaginary (The University of Hong Kong– Utrecht University)
Bill McKibben wrote, ‘We live in a post-natural world.’ But did ‘Nature’ in this sense ever exist? Or was it rather the deification of the human that gave it an illusory apartness from ourselves? Now that non-human agencies have dispelled that illusion, we are confronted suddenly with a new task: that of finding other ways
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Media Architecture Biennale 2020 final report available
Our research group [urban interfaces] was one of the organizing partners of the Media Architecture Biennale 2020, which took place 28 June – 2 July 2021 (after being postponed due to Corona). Read the final MAB20 report here (pdf 5 MB) >> The Media Architecture Biennale (MAB20) was organized by Utrecht University (UU) and the
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New AndersUtrecht podcast series
The AndersUtrecht network has launched a new podcast series that brings together scholars and grassroots organizations. AndersUtrecht is a transdisciplinary network that aims to strengthen the cooperation between grassroots initiatives working towards ecological sustainability and social change in the Utrecht Region. It celebrates the variety among existing initiatives that deal with the societal challenges in…
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