From 23 to 25 May 2013 the wonderful conference “Hybrid City II: Subtle rEvolutions” took place in Athens, Greece. The conference was very good with […] 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.
Michiel is on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Next week from 23 ? 25 May I attend the second Hybrid City conference – “subtle rEvolutions” – in Athens, Greece. Hybrid City is an […] Read More
[I posted this a few days ago on The Mobile City blog] This is an essay I recently wrote for The Bosch Architecture Initiative (BAI) […] Read More
Last week on Thursday April 18 I was invited to give a talk at the yearly Watertorenberaad working conference. The Watertorenberaad is an informal Dutch […] Read More
Europan, a European competition of ideas for young spatial designers, invited me (and also Miriam Luizink, director Mesa+ Institute for Nanotechnology) to give a talk […] Read More
Stef Aupers, Associate Professor at Erasmus University’s Centre for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology, kindly invited me to give a guest lecture for the Erasmus Honours Program […] Read More
As announced in the last post, on 6 March 2013 I gave a talk for the urban game project Rezone in Den Bosch about (digital) […] Read More
The initiators of the urban game project Rezone in the city of Den Bosch have invited me to give a talk about play and ownership. […] Read More
A while ago The Mobile City (Martijn and I) was invited by Amsterdam based architecture and planning firm One Architecture to collaborate on a research project about […] Read More
Next week on 12 December 2012 I’m one of the participants in the radio show Hoe?Zo!, about play, games and culture: Hoe?Zo! legt spel op de […] Read More
Workshop report “How to engage citizens with the help of digital media”, Urbanism Week 2012 TU Delft
Introduction A while back I was invited to give a talk and host a small workshop during the 2012 edition of Urbanism Week. This is […] Read More
A while ago I gave a talk “Designing for the media city” (in Dutch) at a very interesting evening called ‘City, Play, and Digital Media‘. […] Read More
September 25 2012 Will give a talk at “Stad, Spel en Digitale Media” at CAST in Tilburg. More >> September 26 2012 Will give a […] Read More
MayParticipated in a round table discussion with policy makers and humanities scholars. More >> June Presented at the event ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses’ […] Read More
From 9 ? 14 July 2012 The Mobile City (in this case Marc Tuters and I) developed and gave a six-day workshop ’Designing for Ownership’ at the Strelka Institute for Media, […] Read More
Recently I contributed a short chapter to this publication: De Lange, M. (2012). Stad, spel, media: spelenderwijs eigenaar worden van je stad. In E. Holleman, R.-J. de […] Read More
As part-time lecturer at Utrecht University, I am one of the co-organizers of this event: When: 25 – 27 June 2012. Where: Sweelinckzaal Utrecht University […] Read More
Below are scans of some of my recent (non-academic) publications about digital media and ownership in the city: De Lange, M. (2012). Eigenaarschap: stedelingen betrekken […] Read More
Just came back from the ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses‘ symposium at the Plymouth University in Plymouth, UK. Thanks to the organizing committee: Alessandro […] Read More
We are happy to announce a new event: Social Cities of Tomorrow. Social Cities of Tomorrow is an international conference that takes place on 17 […] Read More