Symposium & Workshop: Critical city-making: exploring design approaches for imagining smart urban futures

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4-5 July 2023 | Utrecht University & Amsterdam University of Applied Science
During this two-day event we explore the potential of creative methods and critical design approaches for smart urban governance questions. The event is organized as part of Utrecht University’s focus area Governing the Digital Society, by the special interest group (SIG) “Inclusion in the Datafied City”, in collaboration with partners. Day 1 consists of an expert meeting and keynote talks by four leading designers/researchers on creative practices. Day 2 consists of a hands-on critical making workshop, where interdisciplinary teams will work on a case of the smart scanning car, lead by Tessa Steenkamp (http://tessasteenkamp.com). 

Episode 5 of In Media Res season 2 is out now: Mirko Tobias Schäfer

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Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) interviews Mirko Tobias Schäfer (UU), Associate Professor at the Department for Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. His publications cover user participation in cultural production, datafication, politics of software design and communication in social media. In this episode, Mirko shares his experiences with the co-creation of knowledge with partners ‘in the field’.

NICA/RMeS Career Event for Young Researchers (in Arts, Media & Culture)

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2 June 2023 | Leiden University
Are you preparing for a job or grant application? Wondering how to structure your CV or research statement? Or could you use some help with navigating and positioning yourself in your academic field? Join the career workshop event organized by NICA’s PhD and rMA councils, together with the RMES council on the 2nd of June 2023 in Leiden!

RMeS Workshop | Environmental Media & More-than-Human Infrastructures

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21 & 22 April 2023 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
On Day 1, we will conduct a collaborative workshop focused on experimenting with different ways of sensing the environment. This will be a hands-on activity: We will do outdoor field research in the Amsterdam Buitenveldert area, engage with the theme of air quality in an embodied way and work with Sodaq air quality sensors. (Spaces are limited, please register soon!)

NICA-RMeS Workshop | Computational writing and publishing

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21 April 2023, 13:00-18:00 | Utrecht University
Deadline for registration: 14 April 2023
The procedural qualities of both writing and coding lend themselves to the sharing of resources, collective actions, and social exchange through the use of experimental publishing tools such as wiki-to-print and git repositories. This points to conceiving a publication (such as a book) as a dynamic computational object that is open for re-versioning. Given these possibilities with computation, and despite the trend towards open access, it seems odd that relatively little has changed in academic publishing and scholars still seek to distribute their work through journals even when more accessible and sustainable forms are available.