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Critical making workshop “The Right to the City & Urban Commons”
Critical making ‘pressure cooker’ workshop “The Right to the City & Urban Commons” on 19-20 March 2019: (see also last year’s workshop >> for more background info) New technologies and…
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THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: the [urban interfaces] graduate seminar 2018-2019
New technologies and datafication in so-called smart cities affect how we interface with the city. Social, economic and technological changes also lead to new urban frictions, and increasingly put strain
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Contribution to Knack Weekend Magazine on Instagram and the city
Belgian magazine Knack Weekend featured an item (in Dutch) about the ways in which social media like Instagram influence the design of cities. The basic idea is that an increasing number…
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Contribution to article “How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces”
A while ago I contributed to a story “How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces” written by Emily Matchar for Smithsonian Magazine. I had kind of forgotten about…
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Talk “Critical making of Public Urban Interfaces: an Approach to Designing Frictional Data Dashboards”
On Wednesday 27 June 2018 I gave a short presentation at the NECS2018 conference in Amsterdam. In the presentation I talked about the issue of engaging people with urban data…
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