Klik. Like! Share. Hoe digitale media de publieke ruimte veranderen
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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.
Book "Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures” now available as free pdf
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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...
New article "Playful planning: citizens making the smart and social city"
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New article “Playful planning: citizens making the smart and social city”

A while ago I contributed an article about urban play and games and citizen engagement to the ECLECTIS final report “A contribution from cultural and creative actors to citizens’ empowerment”, on the invitation of Karien Vermeulen, Head of...
Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making
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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.
Publication: Rezone Playful Interventions - Spelen voor de toekomst
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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.
Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum's GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium
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Exhibition review. PolakvanBekkum’s GPS Art: from a documentary to an artistic medium

Last week I visited the exhibition Move Still Move at Rento Brattinga Galerie in Amsterdam, an intriguing exploration of gps technology as an artistic medium by the artist duoPolakvanBekkum.
Smart City World Congress Report
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Smart City World Congress Report

Last week we joined the Smart City world congress in Barcelona, a three-day event bringing together representatives of city governments, technology companies and academia with a common interest in the ways Smart Cities...
How to Design for 'Ownership' rather than for 'Smart Cities'
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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.

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