Activities

Below a selection of my (public) activities.

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

  • Co-organizer with Sigrid Merx, Nanna Verhoeff and Lotte van der Molen of the [urban interfaces] graduate seminar series on the theme of “Urban Commons and the Right to the City” (3 sessions + 1 two-day workshop).
  • 2 November 2018 Sensor Lab public presentation student work (New Media & Digital Culture programme) and expo.
  • 30 October 2018 student presentations of course work for Creative Urban Technologies (part of the minor Creative Cities) at RAUM Utrecht.
  • 26 October 2018 UU masterclass with Evgeny Morozov, co-organized by Impakt Festival and UU (Centre for the Humanities and Co.Laborations at dep. MCW).

2017

2016

  • Lead of MCW Expertise Centre Co.Laborations, Partnerships in Media and Culture >>.
  • 12 Jan. 2016 Invited talk “Playful City” talk COST TU1306 Action, Poznan
  • 14 March 2016 Pakhuis de Zwijger Cultural Commons evening – invited panellist
  • 21 March 2016 Invited respondent Dorien Zandbergen event Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions (AMS ) –
  • 20 April 2016 Invited participant and advisor Nationale Wetenschapsagenda “smart city” track – TU Delft
  • 22 April 2016 Games focus area lunch talk UU
  • 23 April – 10 July 2016 contribution to IABR expo “hackable cityplot”
  • 20 May Invited respondent “affect space” symposium (Eric Kluitenberg).
  • 27 May Fab City Amsterdam – testing hackable watergame.
  • 30 May 2016 EU city makers summit watergame testing Pakhuis
  • 6 Juni 2016 Host of a Datafied Society “smart cities” meeting UU
  • 16 June 2016 Expertise centre: organize game spectatorship event Het Nieuwe Instituut.
  • 23 June Organized & chaired “smart & playful cities” seminar for Games focus area
  • 29 June Lead Watergame testing at International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR)
  • 30 June Invited speaker INtetain conference Utrecht
  • Interview for Smart City article by Rob Hartgens for ING bank internal pub
  • 20 Sept. 2016 Invited guest lecture Innovation Institute Copernicus UU (Frans Sengers).
  • 20 Sept 2016 Invited guest lecture about the data-driven smart city for UDS at Stadhuis Gem. Dordrecht
  • 27 Sept 2016 guest lecture MA course Ingrid Hoofd
  • 3 Oct. 2016 moderation of “Rezone Redesire” game launch in Pakhuis de Zwijger
  • 11 Oct. 2016 moderation of Games for Cities event in Pakhuis de Zwijger http://gamesforcities.com.
  • 12 Oct. Invited guest lecture UU Humanities Lectures 2016-17 ” Imaginaries of the Future ” about hackable city project
  • 23 Oct. 2016 Moderation Utrecht “Games for Cities” Talkshow in Overvecht http://gamesforcities.com/
  • 24 Oct. Co-organized seminar with Maarten Hajer hosted by the Urban interfaces group.
  • 27 Oct. Organized & moderated session at Impakt Festival with student presentations from Research Lab 1 course.
  • 22 Nov. Talk at MEDIATIONS conference, RCA London – http://tr-aders.eu/conference/general-theme/.
  • 29 Nov. 2016 Invited guest lecture Gem. Rotterdam Knowledge Lab Urban Big Data.
  • 13 Dec. 2016 Organized & chaired lecture & Workshop Ole B. Jensen & Simon Wind at UU, Sweelinckzaal.
  • Postdoc “The Hackable City: Collaborative Citymaking in Urban Living Lab Buiksloterham”, headed by Martijn de Waal & José van Dijck. Funded by NWO Creative Industries. April 2015 – April 2016. http://themobilecity.nl/projects/amsterdam-hackable-metropolis.
  • Advisor e-culture commission Mediafonds (2012-2016).

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

  • Moderation session “Food and Global Mobility”, ElectroSmog Festival, De Balie, Amsterdam (March 20 2010). See www.electrosmogfestival.net.
  • Talk ‘Mobile media and Urban Games’ at ‘Visible Cities’, De Verdieping, Amsterdam, April 7 2010.
  • Guest lecture HvA ‘Designing urban interventions for mobile and locative media’, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, May 17 2010.
  • Expert session during HOT100 @ PICNIC 2010, September 23 2010. See www.virtueelplatform.nl/hot100.
  • Guest lecture ‘Mobile media and urban design’, Academie voor Bouwkunst Rotterdam, Kees Machielse, October 1 2010.
  • Guest lecture ‘The Mobile City’, IMPAKT Festival Utrecht, October 15 2010.
  • Guest lecture ‘Designing the Hybrid City’, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, October 28 2010.
  • Guest lecture ‘Mobile media and playful identities’, EUR, Valerie Frissen, master course ‘Domestication of ICTs’, November 4 2010.
  • Guest lecture ‘Mobile and locative media and the city’, UvA, Jan Simons, honours program Media & Culture, November 9 2010.
  • Interview ‘Labyrint Radio’ about mobile phone & identity, Radio 1, November 14 2010.
  • Conference talk ‘From gengsi to gaul: mobile media and playful identities in Jakarta’, international conference ‘Homo Ludens 2.0: play, media, and identity’, University Utrecht, November 17 2010.
  • Keynote talk ‘Spelen en gespeeld worden: identiteit en de mobiele telefoon’, Instituut voor Filosofie, Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, December 11, 2010.

Organized events

  • International expert meeting ‘Designing the Hybrid City’, organized by The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform at the Dutch Culture Centre, Shanghai, China, August 16-17 2010. See www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation.

2009

Lectures/Talks/Presentations/Moderation

  • Guest lecture “Mobile/Locative Media and marketing” – HvA Amsterdam, February 10 2009.
  • Guest lecture “Space, mobility, and media technologies” for international master course – Netherlands Film Academy Amsterdam, March 19 2009.
  • Participating in online television program “Future visions of the telephone” for VARA ConsumentenTV, April 1 2009.
  • Guest speaker at Over ‘t IJ Festival – Amsterdam, July 12 2009.
  • Participation in VPRO radio program 3voor12 about influence of mobile phone, November 19 2009.
  • Participation in HUMAN radio program about influence of mobile phone, November 20 2009.
  • Participation in evening “Hogere Kaartkunde” in De Balie Amsterdam, December 14 2009.

Organized events

  • The Mobile City @IABR (International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2009) – NAi Rotterdam. A 3-day program about new media and urban culture co-curated by The Mobile City in collaboration with IABR, NAi, and BNA. November 5-7 2009.

2008

Lectures/Talks/Presentations/Moderation

  • Lezing “De mobiele mens” voor Happy Chaos “Genesis 2.0” – Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam, May 24 2008. See http://www.happychaos.nl/web/page.php?25.
  • Presentatie “Homo Mobilis?: Mobility, Mobile Media & Identity in Jakarta, Indonesia” voor PhD presentatie ronde op Faculty of Philosophy, EUR.June 27 2008.
  • Lezing “Mobiele media in Jakarta, Indonesië” voor Studium Generale symposium over Populaire cultuur, November 11 2008.
  • Guest lecture “Mobile and Locative Media and urban interventions” – HvA Amsterdam, November 23 2008.
  • Guest lecture “Locative Media” Hogeschool van Amsterdam, afdeling Critical Media Design, November 26 2008.

Organized events

  • The Mobile City International Conference – NAi, Rotterdam, Februari 27-28 2008. See http://www.themobilecity.nl/activities.
  • Co-organizing the NWO-TKC conferentie ‘Politics of Convergence’, VU Amsterdam, January 20-21 2009.

2007

Lectures/Talks/Presentations/Moderation 

  • Presentation with Esther Polak about NomadicMILK project at The Upgrade! – Melkweg, Amsterdam, March 21 2007.
  • Round table discussion NWO Co-Ops project “NomadicMILK” – Lakenhal in Scheltema, Leiden. December 1 2007.

Organized events

  • Lecture and seminar with Kenneth Gergen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, June 12-13 2007.
  • Initiator and organizer ‘Locative Media Club NL’ series of locative media evenings with artists, academics and media professionals.

2006

Lectures/Talks/Presentations/Moderation

  • Organisation and moderation session “Open Source Software and Social Inclusion” Holland Open Software Conferentie, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, June 17 2006. See http://www.hosc.nl/2006.
  • Paper presentation “Mobile Phone as Gift Culture” at International with Norm Friesen and Darryl Cressman (School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, September 26 2006. See http://bit.ly/Xo5Pbj.
  • Poster presentatie “Mobile Phone Ethnography” at Workshop “Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science” organized by Virtual Knowledge Studio, Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, September 27-29 2006. http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl.
  • Presentation art/science project “NomadicMILK” at conferente MediaWijsheid, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam, October 12 2006. http://www.mediawijsheid.org/pmwiki.php/Conferentie/Conferentie.
  • Lecture “Mobiele telefonie als giftcultuur” at Transito Festival 2006, Melkweg Amsterdam, October 27 2006. http://www.leidsepleintheaters.nl/transito.html.
  • Guest lecture course “Domesticatie van de Digitale Wereld” by Valerie Frissen. 2006

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