[urban interfaces] Blogs
Announcement: IOS Platform Open Cities: Creative Methods & Social Labs for Resilient Public Futures
Recently, the IOS platform Open Cities: Creative Methods & Social Labs for Resilient Public Futures has been officially inaugurated. The platform is co-led by Nanna Verhoeff, who is also part of Urban Interfaces. The Open Cities Platform aims to facilitate and inspire interdisciplinary, inter-professional, and international collaborations between scholars, students, cultural practitioners, policymakers, and civic…
Read moreGuest blogpost: Noa Mes – Painting Nature, Growing Buildings: Ghosts and Ecological Mourning
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #3, written by Noa Mes : Noa Mes is a student of the Gender Studies research master at Utrecht University and…
Read moreGuest blogpost: Verena Kämpken – Hauntological Architecture, Frankfurt’s newly built oldtown ensemble and spectral city politics. (Conversation between a Ghost and a Living)
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #3, written by Verena Kämpken. With a background of a BA in Sociology and Human Geography from Goethe-University in…
Read moreGuest blogpost: Kim Sommer – Technology’s enchantments: Magical pathways into alternative urban futures
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #2, written by Kim Sommer. Kim Sommer is a student of the Media, Art and Performance program at Utrecht…
Read moreGuest blogpost: Verena Kämpken – Artificial Gods & Metaverse Heavens: Futures between Magic and Technic
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for the second seminar session, written by Verena Kämpken With a background of a BA in Sociology and Human Geography from Goethe-University…
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