I’ll be giving two lunch talks in the next few weeks, the first is public, the second isn’t: November 22 2011 Broodje Kennis at Spui […] Read More
Author: Michiel de Lange
Michiel de Lange (1976) is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies at Utrecht University, researching mobile media and urban culture and identity. He is the co-founder of The Mobile City, an independent research group founded in 2007 that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life and the implications for urban design and policy. Michiel is trained as a cultural anthropologist, and holds a PhD in philosophy (2010) with a dissertation about mobile media technologies and urban identities. He collaborated in a locative media art & science project (www.nomadicmilk.net). He worked for Kennisland, a Dutch think-tank that aims to strengthen the knowledge-based society. Here he worked on several projects at the intersection of ICTs and the city, e.g. co-organizing the Creative Capital conference. He also volunteered and worked for Cybersoek, a computer neighborhood center in Amsterdam. He is advisor e-culture at Mediafonds.
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As I wrote in an earlier post, I have been developing a new course at Utrecht University, called “The Media City”. It is a course […] Read More
Virtueel Platform commissioned Martijn de Waal and me (The Mobile City) to do a study about the ways media technologies and e-culture can help to […] Read More
The beginning of this academic year will be quite busy: Sept 14 2011 Amsterdam. Session during PICNIC 2011 “Future Cities: Designing for Ownership” First, at […] Read More
I wrote a review of this recent book on The Mobile City website: In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of […] Read More
Martijn and I have been working on a major redesign of The Mobile City website. Not only does this bring a much tighter interface, it […] Read More
This is the presentation I gave a few weeks back at the second ‘Serious Games’ expert meeting, organized by the Netherlands Study Centre for Technology […] Read More
This comes as no surprise to me. I’ve been describing this love of high-tech and all things ‘modern’ among Jakartans in my dissertation. Chris McDowall […] Read More
I posted this review on The Mobile City blog yesterday: Aurigi, A., & De Cindio, F. (2008). Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic […] Read More
Here are the slides from the presentation I gave at the Wireless Stories Conference organized by Sandberg@Mediafonds, on February 17 2011. Download >> (PDF, 360 […] Read More
Tuesday November 16 2010 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. I am now dr. Michiel de Lange :). […] Read More
Last week on October 28 2010 I gave a talk about ‘The Hybrid City’ for PULS at La Citta Mobile in Eindhoven during the Dutch […] Read More
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”. […] Read More
== update Oct 12 2010: now truly, really done== At last and alas, the end is getting in sight. I have become progressively more silent […] Read More
‘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_, […] Read More
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 […] Read More
[this post also appears at The Mobile City weblog] How can architects relate to digital media? The Mobile City keynote at the ‘Day of the […] Read More
[this post also appears on The Mobile City weblog] On December 14th 2009 De Balie – an Amsterdam-based center for culture and politics – organized […] Read More
[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 […] Read More
The second issue of the RMIT journal Second Nature is about “Games, Locative & Mobile Media”. I wrote a short article about urban games and […] Read More