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.
Read review at www.themobilecity.nl >>
Archive for the ‘announcements’ Category
Review @themobilecity: Kevin Lynch “The Image of the City”
Friday, May 8th, 2009TV program “Future visions about the telephone” (in Dutch)
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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.
Presentation at HvA for food awareness campaign
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Yesterday 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
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, 2009I 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 >>.
Finally on Twitter…
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Yeah yeah, so much for participatory observation in research… I am finally on Twitter. Reading this article – which appeared a few months ago – convinced me to have a go and see what this “ambient awareness” thing is all about in practice. Now I gotta find some friends to twitter to…
Uitnodiging boekpresentatie “Draagbare lichtheid”
Thursday, November 27th, 2008(Sorry, in Dutch only..)
Op zaterdag 13 december om 14.00 uur zal in in het theater in de kelder van Selexyz Donner, Lijnbaan 150 Rotterdam de boekpresentatie zijn van ‘De draagbare lichtheid van het bestaan’. Na een korte introductie op het boek door de redacteuren Valerie Frissen en Jos de Mul wordt het boek aangeboden aan Marie-José Klaver.
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Publiciteit komt los 
. Vanavond (4 december) om 21:00 op Radio Hoezo! een gesprek met Jos de Mul over het boek.
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Valerie en Jos zitten op 28 december 2008 in het TV programma Boeken van Wim Brands. Uitzending terugzien.
New book: “De draagbare lichtheid van het bestaan”
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
In the shameless plug department:
“De draagbare lichtheid van het bestaan: het alledaagse gezicht van de informatiesamenleving” is a new book (in Dutch) about how new technologies have become part of our everyday use and experience. A group of mostly young researchers and PhD students, including myself, from various universities and institutions have contributed to this volume edited by Valerie Frissen & Jos de Mul. The book is aimed at a non-academic audience who are interested in understanding the role of new technologies in society. The topics of the various chapters range from ambient intelligence, mobile phones, web 2.0, open source, etc. The book explicitly aims to show in what ways these technologies have already become an everyday reality and consequently reaches beyond the common tendency to use utopian and/or dystopian visions to understand their ‘impact’.
List of contributors: Robin van den Akker (University of Birmingham), Bibi van den Berg (EUR), Jop Esmeijer (TNO), Madelon Kuiper (EUR), Michiel de Lange (EUR), Marc van Lieshout (TNO), Sander Limonard (TNO), Awee Prins (EUR), Mijke Slot (EUR/TNO), Marc Steen (TNO) en Stefan Verhaegh (Universiteit Twente).
Publisher: Klement/Pelckmans; ISBN 9789086870301; price: about € 20.
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Book presentation: Saturday December 13 2008 14:00 – 17:00 in Bookstore Donner, Lijnbaan 150 Rotterdam (click for map).
Special guest: Marie-Jose Klaver.
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Teaching course “Homo Mobilis: mobility, media & identity”
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Starting this academic year Jeroen Timmermans, Jos de Mul and I are teaching a new course called “Homo Mobilis: mobility, media & identity” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as an international masters. The aim of the course is to acquire a deeper understanding of some of the main theories of mobility, and its place in modern history, and to critically rethink the influence of transportation- and (digital) communication mobilities on human identity. The 15-week course schedule looks like this:
Introductory classes
1. First meeting, introduction, practical matters, course outline, syllabus, etc. Thematic overview of the course.
2. From movement to mobility: the concept of mobility.
3. Mobility systems and the mobilities paradigm.
4. A short history of media.
5. Philosophical overview of time/space by Jos de Mul.
Mobility systems
6. Public transport and the time schedule.
7. Airplanes, airports and non-places.
8. Car mobility.
9. Mobile media and smart mobs.
10. ICTs: spaces of flow.
Thematic & critical classes
11. Guest lecture by Lucas Harms (SCP)
12. ‘Liquid identity’ and ‘The corrosion of character’
13. ‘Identity under siege’ and ‘the saturated self’
14. Overshoot: critical perspectives on mobility.
15. Closing session. Presentation of assignments and discussion.
My writings: new page
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008I decided to rework the literature page from linking to other people’s work to featuring my own output. You can find some of my work so far on the page my writings. Happy reading!
