“”The Netherlands are unsafe. The Netherlands are being islamised. The Refugees are threatening our well-fare state.” Is that true?” RMA student Paul Schmidt wrote a blogpost about the The Art of Data Politics hackathon we organised together with SETUP last month. You can find it here. Check it out!

Imagine that there are no mobile phones, which place could be your meeting place in Utrecht? Help our visiting PhD student with her research on the meaning and images of meeting places in Utrecht! Meltem’s research is about the changing behaviours in organizing our meetings through mobile communication technologies. She is conducting a survey in Utrecht with…

This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and can be, constituted, provoked, threatened, understood, and represented. This includes examining the role played in the formation of publics by new on- and offline infrastructures, data visualisations, social and economic practices, research methods and creative practices, and emerging and future technologies. Specifically, the event…

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….