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Out now: Open Access edited volume “The Playful Citizen”

Long time in the making but finally available as an Open Access Publication: The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, edited by René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries (Amsterdam...

literature / Publications

New journal article “Playful civic skills: A transdisciplinary approach to analyse participatory civic games”

Visiting PhD scholar Delaram Ashtari and I wrote a paper “Playful civic skills: A transdisciplinary approach to analyse participatory civic games”, about a playtest session we organized in Utrecht on Nov 20 2017, with the...

literature / literatuurlijst / News / Publications

The Hackable City – Open Access edited volume out now!

Just out, and available as Open Acces: The Hackable City: Digital Media and Collaborative City Making in the Network Society, edited by Michiel de Lange and Martijn de Waal (Springer) The book is...

Feature / Publications

The Hackable City Cahiers

The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society. In these three cahiers (notebooks) we share our insights gained both in Amsterdam Buiksloterham as well as in a series of international study trips.

Publications

The Hackable City: Citymaking in a Platform Society

For the journal Architectural Design, we wrote a contribution for the Special Issue: 4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Toolkit for the Open-Source City. Abstract Can computer hacking have positive parallels in the shaping of the built...

activities / Blog

Workshop “The Right to the Smart City”, 5-6 Sept 2017, Maynooth University

On 5 and 6 Sept 2017 I was invited to give a talk at the workshop The Right to the Smart City: Citizenship, Civic Participation, Urban Commons and Co-Creation, at Maynooth, as part of...

Gamesforcities / News

Games for Cities Conference. Rotterdam 20-21 April 2017

At the games for Cities Conference, Policy-makers, regulators, urban designers, smart city experts and architects will learn how city games can be used for more effective and inclusive city-making and urban planning.

Publications

Essay (in Dutch) “Stories about smart cities: how citizen can identify with their city”

Recently I wrote an essay at the invitation of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK). In the essay (Dutch), I argue that the lack of appealing narratives about smart cities is one...

Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis / Feature / Publications

New publication “The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit”

As part of our The Hackable Research project, we are proud to announce The Hackable City Research Manifesto. See The Hackable City website for more information about our research project The Hackable City:...

Publications

Newspaper article “A truly smart city is a playful city” (Parool, May 30 2015)

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 slimme stad is een speelse stad” (“A truly...

PRPZ / Publications

Klik. Like! Share. Hoe digitale media de publieke ruimte veranderen

The Mobile City introduces a model to think about social organization through digital media and its consequences for the public sphere.

Feature / Publications

Book “Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” now available as free pdf

It is a pleasure to announce that the edited volume “Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” has been published by Amsterdam University Press. The book is also available as a freely downloadable Open...

Publications

Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making

Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making is a publication that serves as an agenda setting discussion piece about the role of digital technologies in the city and the future of urban design.

Publications / rezone

Publication: Rezone Playful Interventions – Spelen voor de toekomst

Last year The Mobile City was a partner in the project Rezone Playful Interventions. In this project three teams of an architect and a game studio created a temporary playful urban intervention for a near-vacant factory at the edge of the city center of Den Bosch.

Feature / Publications

The City as Interface

On the face of it, the rise of 'urban media' is mainly a practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these technologies also presents us with an important philosophical issue: How do they influence the way that the city...

Publications

How to Design for ‘Ownership’ rather than for ‘Smart Cities’

How do we design urban technologies that engage and empower ‘publics’ (groups of people) to act on communally shared issues? That is the main theme of a new study (in Dutch) launched by The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform.