Through the discussion of a number of texts and accounts of their own experiences, researchers will discuss the concept of civic media as well as appropriate research frameworks for civic media, including ‘research by design’ approaches. How can we build a research agenda that is both critical and productive? More info via the link above.

The Games for Cities programme is hosting the first international conference with leading ‘city-game’ design experts from around the world. Games for Cities is an initiative started by Play the City and partners, and aims to create a platform for knowledge exchange on games that have the potential to facilitate more effective and inclusive city-making….

Meltem Şentürk Asıldeveci (1982) is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Architecture of Bauhaus University Weimar. She holds a Master in Urban Design from Middle East Technical University. Currently she works actively as an Urban Designer besides academic research and has realised. Related to her subject of interest which is the evolving characteristics of urban…

Nanna Verhoeff will be part of a panel at the 2017 SCMS conference in Chicago, which asks what media art can do – what terms and practices are potentiated – with regards to urban screens. Its formation implicitly argues for the significance of comparative methods in delineating the potentials and problems of the public screens that have…

Delaram Ashtari (1989) is a PhD Candidate of Urban Planning at the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran. She holds a Master in Urban Design and a Bachelor in Urbanism from the University of Tehran. In these two programs, she ranked first among all graduating students. She is interested in the transformations of…