Written by Leroy Roncken   People dream of cities of tomorrow where problems of today are solved. These imagined utopias seem to get a step closer to reality in the recurring world expos, where people, visions, and technologies meet. The world expo of 2025 was recently announced to take place in Osaka Kansai, and the…

Written by Melisse Vroegindeweij   Sheila Jasanoff (2015) introduces the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries in Dreamscapes of Modernity as “collectively held, institutionally stabilized, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable through, and supportive of, advances in science and technology” (4). These imaginaries…

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…

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…