We are very happy to welcome Simon Wind and Ole B. Jensen from the Centre of Mobilities & Urban Studies (C-MUS) at the Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, Aalborg University in Denmark. In recent years there has been a turn towards the notion of ‘Smart City’ amongst urban scholars and professionals. Smart City is…

Prof. Maarten Hajer is Utrecht University’s distinguished professor of Urban Futures at the department of Geo Sciences and head of the Urban Futures Studio. He has published extensively on twenty-first century urbanism, sustainability and governance. In this meeting we have investigated our shared interests in interdisciplinary methods, and what we may call the dramaturgies and scenarios of…

We host another meet & greet event in 2016, this time with Heidi Rae Cooley. Heidi is an associate professor of Media Arts in the School of Visual Art and Design and Film and Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Her book Finding Augusta: Habits of Mobility and Governance in the Digital Era (2014) won…

This talk looks back on seven years of the MediaNOLA project as interface, tool, and medium for an action-based pedagogy in a political economy of digital humanities. Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University, and holds the Louise Riggio Chair for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She edits the international journal Television & New Media and has written or edited…

Susa Pop (Public Art Lab, Berlin; Connecting Cities), Eugene van Erven (Sharing Arts Lab, Utrecht University) and Karen Lancel (Studio Lancel/ Maat, TU Delft) presented their projects that in different ways stage and design participatory engagement in urban, public spaces. In the discussion with the audience we addressed questions about the curation of participatory platforms…