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…

– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 –  What can we – students, activists, artists, readers and citizens of cities – do to stop gentrification? It seems that students moving to cities are both victims as well as culprits of gentrification: students come in with little money,…

– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 –  When politicians make decisions you do not agree with, or if the dominant discourse in society neglects issues you stand for, protesting is a way to show your concerns. Often, a protest contains the occupation of a public space,…

– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 –  One of the first things that struck me when I moved to Amsterdam was the apparent absence of street art and graffiti, however blurry and complicated the line dividing those two terms might be[1]. This was a striking feeling…

Now online: a short presentation by Nanna Verhoeff and Sigrid Merx at the panel How Data Affects the City, organized by IMPAKT at the Annual EMAP (European Media Art Platform) Conference 2019: Augment and Disrupt (March 1-2, 2019) held on March 1 in Utrecht