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…

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…

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…

[urban interfaces]’s Sigrid Merx participates in the following event:  https://www.nica-institute.com/urban-crisis-scapes-on-walks-and-ruins/ Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins Workshop organized by Eva Fotiadi and Maria Boletsi, in collaboration with Ipek Celik (Koç University), Amsterdam, Belle van Zuylenzaal, 16-17 May 2019 The workshop will focus on city-scapes that have recently been radically reconfigured through pervasive frameworks of crisis…

The following essay was written by Alvaro Lopez, as a final reflection on the [urban interfaces] critical making workshop “The Right to the City & Urban Commons”. Thanks Alvaro! Who’s the Rain Today???: Diffractive Spaces, Tentacular Thinking and Queer Interventions in the Reimagining  of Urban Interfaces Design concept: Who’s the Rain Today??? by Karoliina Haapalehto, Brian…