New technologies and datafication in so-called smart cities affect how we interface with the city. Social, economic and technological changes also lead to new urban frictions, and increasingly put strain on collectively shared urban commons and the right to the city. This shifting landscape of urban politics and power dynamics and the role of media,…

Datafied Society, Platform-Scenography, and [urban interfaces] present: Exploring Scenographic Strategies in Data Walks 15 May 2018, 14.00-17.00 (Drift 13, room 005) At the London School of Economics Alison Powell has been working on the Data Walking project (www.datawalking.org). During data walks people are invited to observe, discuss and record connections between, data, processes of datafication…

On March 6 and 7 2018, the workshop “Critical Making of Frictional Urban Interfaces” took place. The workshop was a collaboration between Utrecht University’s Media & Culture Studies department (research group [urban interfaces] + research master program Media, Arts & Performance), and Creative Coding Utrecht, artists Ruben van de Ven (https://rubenvandeven.com) & Cristina Cochior (http://randomiser.info), in…

Research group [urban interfaces] and Utrecht University’s research master program Media, Arts & Performance organize a two-day workshop in collaboration with Creative Coding Utrecht (https://www.meetup.com/Creative-Coding-Utrecht/), and artists Ruben van de Ven (https://rubenvandeven.com) & Cristina Cochior (http://randomiser.info), in partnership with Het Nieuwe Instituut (https://hetnieuweinstituut.nl), and HKU (https://www.hku.nl). During the workshop, participants from different professional practices and…

An expert meeting organized by Datafied Society and [urban interfaces], in collaboration with SETUP MediaLab and MCW Expertise Centre. The goal of this meeting is to facilitate a dialogue between academics and practitioners about the possibilities for innovative, critical and experimental forms of “bringing  back” data to (urban) publics. Or, in other words, we will…

On January 10 2017  15.00 – 17.00 the [Urban Interfaces] group in collaboration with MCW’s Datafied Society initiative organize their second lecture and research meeting, this time with Shannon Mattern as a guest speaker. Shannon Mattern will give a talk entitled “Interfaces in an Expanding Field”. Shannon Mattern is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New…