[urban interfaces] research group at Utrecht University

[urban interfaces] Blogs

Visiting guest: Helen Pritchard

As an artist and geographer, my interdisciplinary work brings together the fields of Computational Aesthetics, Geography, Design and Feminist TechnoScience. My practice is both one of writing and making and these two modes mutually inform each other in order to consider the impact of computational practices on our engagement with environments. Central to my work…

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Visiting guest: Saskia Freeke

I’m an artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer and educator. My work focuses on structure, geometry and playfulness. A big part of my artistic practice is my ongoing daily art project that I started January 2015. Here I explore and experiment with generative patterns and animations daily. You can follow my daily art on…

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“Situated Installations for Urban Data Visualization: Interfacing the Archive-City” by Nanna Verhoeff and Karin van Es

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and…

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Stand By Me

A Citizen’s Right to Being Visible in the City — This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 —   “–What do we know of the man? Absolutely nothing. We don’t have an inkling of his past. That could be an asset. A man’s past cripples him. His background turns into a…

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Reoccupying Public Space

— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — The Urban Frictions graduate seminar 2017-2018 provided insights into the intricate processes of developing, as well as analyzing urban interfaces, as a way of engaging in contemporary discourses on the impact of exponentially growing mediatized urban environments. In this reflection, I will…

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