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Co-Creating Alternative `Zero-Waste’ Urban Imaginaries
The project addresses the participation of citizens in imagining and shaping sustainable urban futures, focusing on issues and infrastructures of waste. The aim is to develop a transferable transdisciplinary approach that supports the co-creation of alternative, inclusive ‘zero-waste’ imaginaries, by critically and creatively addressing the notion of ‘waste’ in urban contexts. This project was awarded…
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Media Architecture Biennale offers perspective: In the city of the future, people and their relationship to the surroundings are at the centre
You throw a piece of paper in the waste bin and the local waste management authority receives a signal that the bin is full; you walk down the street in the dark and the sensor-sensitive lamppost switches on; Google Maps recommends an alternative route to reach your final destination more quickly. These are all examples…
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Lisbon and the Pandemic: Urban (In)Formal Structures and Practices
This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Lisa Spinelli. Lisbon and the Pandemic: Urban (In)Formal Structures and Practices In contemporary urban settings, multiple structures are shaping the way people live their lives, from transportations, to economic transactions, and, up to a certain point, to the…
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Digital Cartography: From Mapping Places To Mapping Society
This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Andre Joglekar. Digital Cartography: From Mapping Places To Mapping Society Cartography has had an essential role in contemporary communication. The spread of GPS (Global Positioning System) in mobile phones, interactive mapping tools and social networks through the internet…
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The Potential of Political Spaces
This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Floor Mijland. The Potential of Political Spaces The [Urban Interfaces] seminar of place March 18th, titled ‘(In)formalizing the City: Commons, Agonisms, Interventions’, centred around the topic of ‘emerging citizen-centric and technology-enabled ways of re-configuring and re-engaging with current…
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