[urban interfaces] Blogs
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…
Read moreUrban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins
[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…
Read moreGuest post Alvaro Lopez about the [urban interfaces] workshop: “Who’s the Rain Today???”
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…
Read morePost-mortem post-modern: Killing the Neighborhood versus Death of the Neighborhood
– 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,…
Read moreWe Are a Protest! Rethinking the conventional form of protesting
– 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,…
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