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[urban interfaces] Newsletter February 2020
Our first [urban interfaces] newsletter is now live! You can check it out here. To receive updates about [urban interfaces], and learn about interesting events, calls for papers, talks, and more, subscribe to our newsletter here!
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Pressure Cooker Workshop: Designing More-Than-Human Cities
In this workshop, students from different programs and academies collaborate on an interdisciplinary urban design assignment. The specific focus of the workshop is to develop creative design for more-than-human cities. This deals with the question of how our cities can become more sustainable – both socially and ecologically – by taking into account the diverse…
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URBAN ECOLOGIES: The [urban interfaces] graduate seminar 2019-2020
Dates: February 11 and 25, and March 10, 2020. Time and Venue: 13.00-17.00 @ MCW Lab, Muntstraat 2A, 3512 EV Utrecht. Credits: 3 ECTS (for RMa Studentes and PhD Candidates only, MA students who want to obtain ECTS can contact Dr Nanna Verhoeff for more information). The seminar series is open to (R)Ma students and…
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Meet-up on Playful Cities: Dramaturgies for Active Public Spaces
Cities have always been sites for play and games, from the ‘bread and circuses’ of classical Rome to contemporary players chasing virtual characters with Pokemon Go. Over the last few years, around labels such as the Playful & Playable City, an international movement has emerged explicitly promoting playfulness as a design approach for our contemporary…
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Mini-Symposium Urban Interfaces
This mini-symposium on Urban Interfaces is to celebrate the launch of the online Urban Interfaces Special Issue on Leonardo Electronic Almanac! You are all warmly invited! The issue approaches interfaces in a contemporary urban context, and explores the different ways in which situated media, art, and performances create, intervene in, and transform urban spaces. The…
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