Vice argues that “Right-wing pundits, landlords, and tech executives all believe they can prove we are amid a crime wave with just one more video.” […] Read More
Tag: smart city
The Intercept reports that the city of Detroit is on the brink of deciding whether to divert some $7 million of federal money on ShotSpotter, […] Read More
Die smart city, die! >> Had it succeeded, Quayside could have been a proof of concept, establishing a new development model for cities everywhere. It […] Read More
The Economist has published an updated smart city ranking, putting Amsterdam in 2nd place. https://impact.economist.com/projects/digital-cities/ Digital Cities Index 2022 The Digital Cities Index (DCI) 2022, […] Read More
Here’s a recent report by UK (social) innovation org Nesta on how cities can responsibly deploy and govern digital sensors in urban spaces. Where [..] […] Read More
A bit late to post here, but it’s such a nice interview that I wanted to archive it anyway… Femke Niehof – science communications writer […] Read More
Together with my colleague Karin van Es, I wrote a paper about datawalking as a method for doing research on the datafication of urban life. […] Read More
Recently I gave a talk (in Dutch) for the Betweterfestival in Tivoli/Vredenburg Utrecht about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk […] Read More
On 24 Oct. 2017, I was the moderator of the conference “A City as Smart as its Citizens”, organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut. The event took place […] Read More
For the Betweterfestival on 29 September 2017, I gave a talk about the increasingly dominant role of data in the ‘smart city’. The talk was called […] Read More
Recently I wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay I suggest three alternative imaginaries for smart […] Read More
For the Saturday May 30 2015 edition of national newspaper Parool (with a strong basis in Amsterdam), I wrote an opinion article called “Een echte […] Read More
[see also announcement on the COST TU1306 website] Here you find the report of the STSM (short-term scientific mission) that I recently carried out at the Digital Cultures […] Read More
Just out in a recent publication, a chapter in which I explore the notion of the playful city or playable city as an alternative to the […] Read More
[see original workshop page and most up to date announcements on http://www.themobilecity.nl/dc9] Workshop “Digital Cities 9 – Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to […] Read More
This is the presentation for the talk that I gave at the Playin Siegen International Urban Games Festival & Seminar on Sunday 19 April 2015, for which I […] Read More
[announced earlier at The Mobile City website >>] We are happy to announce that NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) has granted funding to […] Read More
Next academic year 2014-2015 I will teach a new course in the Utrecht University minor “Creative Cities” (in English), together with my colleagues Sigrid Merx, […] Read More
Last week I was in Oxford for the workshop “Time Travelers: Temporality and Mapping”. The workshop was organized by the research team of the ERC-funded […] Read More
[this post also appears on The Mobile City] As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in […] Read More