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Teaching a new course in minor “Creative Cities” (English) 2014-2015
Next academic year 2014-2015 I will teach a new course in the Utrecht University minor “Creative Cities” (in English), together with my colleagues Sigrid Merx, Eugene van Erven and Peter Selten. My...
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NWO KIEM funds new research program “Hackable Metropolis Amsterdam”
[announced earlier at The Mobile City website >>] We are happy to announce that NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) has granted funding to our research project “Hackable...
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The Playful City: Can play and games help to make truly smart cities?
This is the presentation for the talk that I gave at the Playin Siegen International Urban Games Festival & Seminar on Sunday 19 April 2015, for which I was kindly invited by Judith Ackermann, Anke...
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Digital Cities 9 workshop “Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to...
[see original workshop page and most up to date announcements on http://www.themobilecity.nl/dc9] Workshop “Digital Cities 9 – Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change” 27 June...
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New chapter “The Playful City: Using Play and Games to Foster Citizen...
Just out in a recent publication, a chapter in which I explore the notion of the playful city or playable city as an alternative to the tech-driven smart city. Although written just before my recent...
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Bristol report –“The Playful City: play and games for citizen participation...
[see also announcement on the COST TU1306 website] Here you find the report of the STSM (short-term scientific mission) that I recently carried out at the Digital Cultures Research Centre/Pervasive...
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In the media(2): article in Dutch newspaper Parool “A truly smart city is a...
For the Saturday May 30 2015 edition of national newspaper Parool (with a strong basis in Amsterdam), I wrote an opinion article called “Een echte slimme stad is een speelse stad” (“A truly smart city...
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Article (in Dutch) in AGORA Magazine “Slimme stad, slimme stedelingen”
Recently I wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay I suggest three alternative imaginaries for smart and social cities: data city, playful...
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Video of talk about data in the smart city, Betweterfestival 29 September 2017
For the Betweterfestival on 29 September 2017, I gave a talk about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called “A Walk in the smart city” (Een wandeling in de...
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Moderation conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens”, 24 Oct. 2017, Dutch...
On 24 Oct. 2017, I was the moderator of the conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens”, organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut. The event took place as part of the Dutch Design Week/World Design Event in...
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Recently I gave a talk (in Dutch) for the Betweterfestival in Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called “A Walk in the smart city”...
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New paper “Data with its boots on the ground: Datawalking as research method”
Together with my colleague Karin van Es, I wrote a paper about datawalking as a method for doing research on the datafication of urban life. The paper appears in the European Journal of Communication,...
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Interview with Nanna Verhoeff and me about MAB20
A bit late to post here, but it’s such a nice interview that I wanted to archive it anyway… Femke Niehof – science communications writer at Utrecht University – wrote up a really good article about...
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Nesta report on reclaiming urban public space
Here’s a recent report by UK (social) innovation org Nesta on how cities can responsibly deploy and govern digital sensors in urban spaces. Where [..] sensors are installed by commercial actors...
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Amsterdam high in Economist smart city ranking
The Economist has published an updated smart city ranking, putting Amsterdam in 2nd place. https://impact.economist.com/projects/digital-cities/ Digital Cities Index 2022 The Digital Cities Index...
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Another one from MIT tech review: “Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever”
Die smart city, die! >> Had it succeeded, Quayside could have been a proof of concept, establishing a new development model for cities everywhere. It could have demonstrated that the...
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Detroit may spend Covid relief funds on ineffective and discriminatory public...
The Intercept reports that the city of Detroit is on the brink of deciding whether to divert some $7 million of federal money on ShotSpotter, a controversial surveillance technology that uses publicly...
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Why are rich tech entrepreneurs obsessed with painting US cities as...
Vice argues that “Right-wing pundits, landlords, and tech executives all believe they can prove we are amid a crime wave with just one more video.” Why? To sell cities more smart tech, of course! This...
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ClimateOS: a smart urban tools for green and sustainable cities
A bit of brighter news, in The Guardian, a “Swedish tech startup helping cities go green”: This article in The Guardian reports on the tech startup ClimateView that have created a kind of dashboard for...
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Amazon Fresh walks out on AI powered grocery shopping
Ars Technica writes about Amazon pulling the plug on its Fresh grocery shopping concept, because it just didn’t work: Just Walk Out was supposed to let customers grab what they wanted from a store and...
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