[urban interfaces] Blogs
Talk at Data (For) Culture conference in Katowice, 2 Dec. 2017
On December 2 2017 I will give a talk at the Data (For) Culture conference in Katowice. The event is organized by Medialab Katowice. About the event: During the conference, experts from Poland and abroad will discuss a number of topics, including: (a) how to combine traditional methods of cultural research with the analysis of large data sets from…
Read moreFrom real-time city to asynchronicity: exploring the real-time smart city dashboard in Cartographic Temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping by Michiel de Lange
Michiel de Lange recently contributed a chapter to the edited book Cartographic temporalities: Time and space in digital mapping. Further description and details regarding the book can be found here.
Read moreURBAN FRICTION the [urban interfaces] graduate seminar 2017-2018
Urban Friction-Flyer Urban processes have been impacted by frictions all throughout history. The remarkable pace and dynamics of the current phase of global urbanization in the age of mediatization, datafication, and pervasive connectivity suggest a new age where insular, political boundaries have come to shift radically. Perhaps to a larger extent than before, people are…
Read morePaul Schmidt writes on urban intervention
Paul Schmidt wrote a new blogpost on the urban intervention “Street Stories Springweg”, in the context of the Media and Culture BA course The City as Stage. Read it here.
Read moreNew visiting scholar: Sergio Martínez Luna
Sergio Martínez Luna holds a PhD in Humanities from Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (UC3M). His dissertation explores the articulations between theories of image and vision and the concept of culture in the fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies. He works as a professor in Visual Rhetoric at the Department of Philosophy,…
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