Nieuwe Media & Stedelijke Cultuur
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Architecture, Digital Media and Urban Design – Lift@Home Eastern Quartier (Pecs, Hungary)

It was a great pleasure to be one of the invited speakers / workshop leaders at the Lift@Home event in Pecs in September 2010. The first edition of Lift Workshop in Hungary sets…

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Mobile phones, social networks and location data: Recognizing the Nuances of Privacy

In juni 2010 lanceerde de Stichting Kunst Openbare Ruimte (SKOR) een thema-nummer van hun tijdschrift OPEN over Privacy op de Biennale van Berlijn.

 

Ik schreef een essay over de opkomst van digitale media en de veranderende rol van privacy

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Connect your Story to the City. Workshop for Architects and Game Designers on Urban Games – Waag Society (Amsterdam)

I was a co-host at a workshop organized by Ronald Lenz of Waag Society in which architects and game designers were invited to develop urban games with the help of the 7scenes platform….

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Designing the Hybrid City – Shanghai August 14-17 2010

In 2010 organiseerden Virtueel Platform en The Mobile City een conferentie over Stedelijk ontwerp en Nieuwe Media, in het Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai.

 

Met The Mobile City verzorgde ik de programmering en de organisatie van deze conferentie

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Urban Screens, Mobile Media & Urban Culture – Urban Screens 09 (Amsterdam)

I gave a talk at the Urban Screens Conference in Amsterdam, organized by the Institute for Network Cultures. I showed a number of urban screen and mobile screen installations and tried to analyze…

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The Mobile City @ Interntional Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

At the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) The Mobile City (an organization I co-founded with Michiel de Lange) organized a number of events between November 5th and 12th 2009, including a keynote, workshop…

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Three philosophical questions about the ‘sentient city’ – a response to the exhibition Towards the Sentient City

Mark Shepard, curator of the Toward the Sentient City Exhibition held at the Architectural League in New York invited me to write a ‘reponse’ to the exhibition. Here is the full text: —-…

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Towards a MySpace Urbanism?

As part of my current research project into New Media, Urban Culture and the Public Sphere I have published two articles in which I – somewhat playfully – investigate some concepts to theorize…

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The Chinese Dream / Imagined Cities

Tussen 2004 en 2008 verrichte de Dynamic City Foundation een groot onderzoek naar urbanisatie in China.

 

Voor het boek The Chinese Dream schreef ik een hoofdstuk over de impact van de snelle urbanisatie op het alledaagse stedelijke leven.

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‘Greetings from Pendrecht’ @ Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen and Hong Kong

For the second Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen and Hong Kong I worked together with Dutch graphic Designers Leon & Loes on a project called ‘Greetings from Pendrecht – The City…

Currently Working on

* Researching Program Publieke Ruimte Publieke Zaak with The Mobile City

* Supervising MA-thesis in Journalism Program, University of Amsterdam

* Finishing my book ‘The City as Interface

* Preparing various grant applications

* Organizing Research meeting Journalism Studies

Just Finished

* Moderating a symposium on the future of art education in a digital society.
* Lecturing & consulting on projects developed in Sandber@mediafonds masterclass 2013 Liquid Journalism
* Just got back from a trip to Seoul and New Songdo for a radio and newspaper reportage on smart cities for VPRO Radio 1 and de Volkskrant
* Essay and expert meeting on The Future of the City voor het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving
* Workshop Society 2.0 at City of Utrecht
* Mapping Digital Media research for Open Society Institute
* Recent lectures:

27 nov Designers of the Future (Respondent – Delft),

30 nov Creative Mornings Amsterdam,

10 dec The Future of the City (Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam)

25 FebĀ Stadsleven: de Interactieve Stad. Talk show olv Tracy Metz, de Rode Hoed (Amsterdam)

 

* Organizing Dutch E-Culture Days at Helsinki World Design Capital for Virtueel Platform

 

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