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Maandag 14 december, 20:00, De Balie, kenniscafé over “Hogere kaartenkunde”

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

[In Dutch]

Maandag 14 december om 20:00 in De Balie is er een kenniscafé over “Hogere kaartenkunde”. Ik zit in het panel en zal het hebben over de invloed van locatieve media op cartografische representaties.

We maken al eeuwenlang kaarten, om landsgrenzen vast te leggen of veilige routes aan te geven. Een kaart is een model van de werkelijkheid, en het terrein van een fascinerende tak van wetenschap: Cartografie.

Kaarten vormen de weerslag van sociale en politieke keuzes, die vervolgens hun eigen waarheid gaan vormen. Zo is de Perzische Golf niet overal in de wereld de Perzische Golf, ziet de wereld er op z’n kop of met China als middelpunt opeens heel anders uit en lijken kaarten tegenwoordig minder compleet te worden door een toenemend aantal ‘witte vlekken’…

Martijn van Calmthout gaat in gesprek met cartograaf Ferjan Ormeling, met Henk van Houtum, hoofd van het Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud Universiteit en met Michiel de Lange, promovendus aan de faculteit van Wijsbegeerte in Rotterdam.

Zoals elk KennisCafé zijn ook columnisten Maarten Keulemans en Jelle Reumer van de partij.

Het KennisCafé is een coproductie van De Balie, De Volkskrant, KNAW en Science Center NEMO.

Meer info: http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?podiumid=politiek&articleid=327853

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article in Second Nature journal about The Mobile City project and urban gaming

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The second issue of the RMIT journal Second Nature is about “Games, Locative & Mobile Media”. I wrote a short article about urban games and their importance for the issues we address with The Mobile City.

In this article I discern five possible ‘levels’ to understand urban games: (1) the city is often used as a model to construct an architecture of computer and video games; (2) the city itself has historically been understood in multiple ways as a game or playground; (3) pervasive games take digital games out to the streets and bridge the digital-physical distinction; (4) (serious) games are used in the process of (re)building actual cities; (5) urban games are a metaphorical lens through which to look at utopian and dystopian futures of cities. For each of these ‘levels’ I raise some relevant questions.

You can read the article here >> or download a PDF of the article (1,6 MB).

There are a number of other interesting contributions. See the journal’s table of contents.

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The Mobile City @IABR 2009

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Mobile City, the project I do together with Martijn de Waal, will organize four events during the upcoming ‘connectivity’ week at the International Architectural Biennale (IABR). The overarching theme of the biennale is ‘Open City: designing coexistence”.

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This is what we’re doing:

  • November 5th 20:00-22:00 Keynote with Mark Shepard

    location: NAi Auditorium Rotterdam
  • November 6th 12:00-17:00 Sentient Rotterdam Workshop with Mark Shepard & The Mobile City. Participation is restricted to registered participants. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to register.
    location: IABR Forum, NAi Rotterdam
  • November 6th 17:00-19:00 Opening of the Exhibition The Sentient City Survival Kit. The opening events includes a public presentation of the workshop results.

    location: IABR Open Podium, NAi Rotterdam. The Exhibition will last until November 12th. This event is followed by a Pecha Kucha Program at 20:20.
  • November 7th 10:00-20:00 Day of the Young Architect with keynote lecture by The Mobile City. Accessible to members of the Bond Nederlandse Architecten (Royal Institute of Dutch Architects).
    location: NAi Auditorium Rotterdam

For more information, see The Mobile City website >>.

review: Stephen Graham – The Cybercities Reader (2004)

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

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I’ve written a review of Stephen Graham’s “The Cybercities Reader” (2004) at The Mobile City. Go there >>

slides guest lecture ‘Digital Art and Culture’ course

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Today I did a guest lecture for the course “Digital Art and Culture” at the Radboud University Nijmegen. I talked about mobile and locative media, and their implications for urban space, social relations, and identity.

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[I guess I should try a new front image next time, it's getting routine...]

download presentation (PDF 1.4 MB)

review @mobilecity: Kevin Lynch “The Image of the City”

Friday, May 8th, 2009

As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I have written up a review of this oldie-goldie published in 1960.
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Read review at www.themobilecity.nl >>

TV program “Future visions about the telephone” (in Dutch)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

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Dutch broadcaster VARA’s digital television channel ConsumentenTV has an item (in Dutch) about future visions of the telephone. I am one of the people interviewed for this program. From their announcement:

De mobiele telefoon is niet meer weg te denken uit ons dagelijks leven. We bellen en sms-en ons een ongeluk, veel mensen gebruiken daarnaast internet op hun mobiel, luisteren muziek en kijken films via het apparaatje. Dat wij allemaal een eigen, of zelf meerdere telefoons in ons bezit zouden hebben, had men honderd jaar geleden niet durven dromen: Toekomstvisies over telefonie.

Watch the program on demand >>

Presentation at HvA for food awareness campaign

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Yesterday I gave a short presentation at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam about the possibilities to use mobile media for a food awareness campaign by FairFood. Students have to design and develop a campaign involving the mobile phone for the ‘Green Dot’ award (a sustainable alternative to the Golden Dot award by the HvA’s Instituut voor Interactieve Media). I focussed on the location-based possibilities of mobile phone.

Below the files (mostly in Dutch):

090210_hva_mdelange01.pdf – Some slides about campaigning + technical aspects of the mobile phone

090210_hva_mdelange02.pdf – Some slides about locative media

Urban screen encounter at Haarlemmerplein, Amsterdam

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Urban screen

Just saw this very rudimentary urban screen (no interactivity it seems) at the Haarlemmerplein. Apparently with old photos from the neighborhood. The chill and wet snow prevented me from being more inquisitive…

Review: “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities” by Mimi Ito et al.

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I put a review online of a great chapter by Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places”. Read it at The Mobile City weblog >>.