Originally from the planet-like metropolis of Berlin and now confronted with life in the (not so) tiny and (very) clean cities of The Netherlands, RMA student Paul Schmidt blogs on a quest to find the moments, ideas, and places where the city is more than it looks like. Follow him on (re)mystify!

Nanna Verhoeff has (co)edited a special issue for Television and New Media on Urban Cartographies: Mapping Mobility and Presence. This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place…

Paul Schmidt wrote a new post for his blog remystify. It is connected to the workshop proposal he handed in for his course Urban Interfaces and starts off from the workshop he visited at Sonic Acts Festival in the beginning of that course. You can find it here.

To the most recent edition of New Amsterdam Magazine, #10, [urban interfaces] contributed an article about The Hackable City. The online issue of this article called “Hacking Buiksloterham: How Digital Media Can Democratize City-Making” can be found here.

Recently, Michiel de Lange wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay, he suggests three alternative imaginaries for smart and social cities: data city, playful city and maker city. All of these imaginaries have hackability as a central quality. A scan of the article can be…