[urban interfaces] Blogs
Welcome to Corporate Land; or, the City of Vanishing Street Art and Graffiti
– 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…
Read moreUrban + Data + Dramaturgy – presentation at IMPAKT panel: How Data Affects the City
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
Read moreDiffracting Spaces and the Right to the Cities
– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – In the interesting work of reflection and analysis that is “The Right to the City”, David Harvey (2008) highlights the connections between society, capitalism and urban transformation. Harvey turns to Marx’s notion of surplus value, capital and production to…
Read moreThe Right to Public Musicking
– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – It is difficult to explain to my German musician peers the idea that in Groningen one cannot simply perform music in the street. The idea that taking up sonic space is restricted, is well-understood: it’s an unwritten rule…
Read moreCities against Tech Giants
– This article is part of the graduate seminar series The Right to the City 2018-2019 – The recent debates concerning the big technology establishments within the major cities such as New York and Berlin caused a clash between big technology companies aiming to establish headquarters, business venues within the strategic locations of cities, and…
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