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Download my PhD dissertation “Moving Circles”

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

PhD defense Michiel de Lange

Tuesday November 16 2010 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. I am now dr. Michiel de Lange :) . A big thanks to my paranymphs: Daan de Lange (left) and Martijn de Waal (right).

You can download “Moving Circles” here (pdf, 3.6 MB).

Versions suitable for e-readers are available as well:

* epub (epub file, 1.8 MB)
* epub – zipped (zipped epub file, 1.8 MB)
* mobi (mobi file, 1.8 MB)
* mobi zipped (zipped mobi file, 1.6 MB)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Netherlands License [note: this is a different license from the general content of this blog].

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Defense of my PhD dissertation: Tuesday November 16 2010, 13:00

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

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Beste allemaal,

Op dinsdag 16 november 2010 om precies 13:00 zal ik mijn proefschrift verdedigen, met de titel “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. Hierin staat de vraag centraal hoe mobiele mediatechnologieën onze identiteiten op speelse wijze beïnvloeden.

Jullie zijn van harte uitgenodigd om de ceremonie bij te wonen. Na afloop is er een receptie.

wanneer: dinsdag 16 november 2010 om 13:00 (wees ajb op tijd, de deuren zijn anders gesloten)
waar: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, campus Woudestein, Senaatszaal (gebouw A, verdieping boven de Aula)
bereikbaarheid: openbaar vervoer (OV chipkaart nodig in Rotterdam); automobiel/fiets (Google Maps)

De verdediging zal hoofdzakelijk in het Nederlands gebeuren.

Promotoren:
Prof.dr. J. de Mul
Prof.dr. V. Frissen
Prof.dr. J. Raessens

Overige leden:
Prof.dr. J. Jansz
Prof.dr. J. Katz
Dr. S. Aupers

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Dear all,

On Tuesday November 16 2010 at 13:00 sharp I will defend my PhD dissertation, entitled “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. It is an inquiry into how mobile media technologies shape our identities in playful ways.

You are cordially invited to attend the ceremony, and join for drinks afterwards.

when: Tuesday November 16 2010, 13:00 (please be on time, doors will be closed…)
where: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, campus Woudestein, Senate Room (building A, floor above the Aula)
how to get there: public transport (OV chipcard mandatory in Rotterdam); car (Google Maps)

The defense will be mainly in Dutch.

Promotors:
Prof.dr. J. de Mul
Prof.dr. V. Frissen
Prof.dr. J. Raessens

Members of the committee:
Prof.dr. J. Jansz
Prof.dr. J. Katz
Dr. S. Aupers

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Final stage of research – dissertation finished

Friday, August 27th, 2010

== update Oct 12 2010: now truly, really done==

At last and alas, the end is getting in sight. I have become progressively more silent on this blog, as I was busy finishing my PhD dissertation, and doing other things, like writing/curating/organizing for The Mobile City. I am just back from Shanghai, China, where Martijn and I have been organizing an event about urban design and the hybrid city (in cooperation with Virtueel Platform). More about this soon on The Mobile City’s weblog.

The table of contents of the dissertation is as follows:

(more…)

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The Mobile City @Adaptation, Shanghai August 14-17 2010

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

‘Designing the Hybrid City’

Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai August 16-17 2010

Organized by The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform, in cooperation with Shanghai eArts, V2_, Cybercity Ruhr and Dynamic City Foundation.

Extended background information on ‘Designing the Hybrid City’: http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/

Download the Call for Participation ‘Designing the Hybrid City’ (PDF)

As part of Adaptation, The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform organize ‘Designing the Hybrid City’. This event takes place in Shanghai on August 16-17 and focuses on the role of digital media and technologies in urban design

Mobile and wireless media, as well as technologies that can sense and react to what is happening around them, increasingly shape our urban environment and turn our cities into ‘hybrid cities’. What does this mean for urban design? How should we deal with this emerging relation between new media technologies and the city? Which approaches have already proven successful? Which experiments have the most promise? What can different disciplines involved in urban, media and interface design learn from each other? And how is the process of urban design itself changing?

Read more at The Mobile City website >>

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Moderating session “Food and Global Mobility”, ElectroSmog Festival, Saturday March 20 2010 16:00-18:00

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Saturday 20th March 2010 from 16:00 − 18:00 I will moderate the session “Food and Global Mobility” at the ElectroSmog Festival for sustainable immobility. The venue is De Balie, Amsterdam (Google Maps). Entry is free.

This is the program:

What does food mean for us today? There is a growing understanding that food is not only a fuel to keep our bodies working, a source of pleasure, and for some also a source of income. It is also an important link between us and our environments, natural and social, local and global. More and more people are trying to rethink our relationships with the world through food and different forms of engagement with it. The issue of sustainability in the age of hyper-mobility is one of the most urgent ones. Questions on the table can be different as well as answers to them. Should we reduce global food mobility and start buying more local products? But what then about farmers and communities in the developing countries for whom supplying us with fruits and vegetables is of great economic significance? What exactly would we like to know about the pre-shelf life of our food in order to make an informed responsible choice? How can we access this information? What alternative ideas for sustainable food strategies are out there? Is urban farming a promising way to reconnect to your food? And what does it actually mean – “sustainable food strategies”?

This panel will bring together people involved in practical and theoretical research related to sustainable food strategies. The idea is to present and discuss highly diverse perspectives on the issue where environmental, social, ethical, technological, scientific and aesthetic aspects can be interrelated in an interesting, insightful, creative, and even challenging way.

Speakers are in the session are:

1) Toine Timmermans (program manager sustainable food chains of Wageningen UR) – www.fbr.wur.nl/UK (see his proposed presentation here)

2) Hugo Hooijer (Fairfood) – www.fairfood.org

3) Esther Polak (locative media artist) – http://nomadicmilk.net/?page_id=2

4) Hernani Dias (“Refarm the City” project) – www.refarmthecity.org

5) Frank van der Hoeven (Associate Professor, Chair of Urban Design at Delft University of Technology) – http://urbandesign.bk.tudelft.nl

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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 >>.

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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 >>

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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)

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