[urban interfaces] seminar 2025-2026: The Risky City

After a hiatus of two year, [urban interfaces] returns with a new edition of our seminar series! This year, the theme is The Risky City.

Dates:

6 May 2026 14:00 – 16:30

20 May 2026 10:00 – 12:00

3 June 2026 14:00 – 16:30 + drinks

For more information, see the seminar webpage >>.
Registration will open soon via our partner Netherlands Research school for Media Studies (RMeS).

Risky Cities – Risky Reflections – Risky Methods

Cities today are especially vulnerable to what has been called a ‘polycrisis’, where multiple risks converge and amplify each other. These include a nature crises on many fronts like climate, resource depletion, extinctions, etc., societal crises like increasing inequality, social justice, women’s/LGBTQ+ safety, housing shortage, disease outbreak, (political) riots, conflict and terror, and so on, as well as media crises in areas like accurate news information, representation and trustworthiness, and democratic debate.