Out now: study “Ownership in the Hybrid City” (in Dutch)
Virtueel Platform commissioned Martijn de Waal and me (The Mobile City) to do a study about the ways media technologies and e-culture can help to design livable and lively cities. In this study we...
View ArticleMy abstract for the event ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses’
Just came back from the ‘Remediating Urban Space: Exploring Design Responses‘ symposium at the Plymouth University in Plymouth, UK. Thanks to the organizing committee: Alessandro Aurigi, Katharine...
View ArticleRecent publications about digital media and the city
Below are scans of some of my recent (non-academic) publications about digital media and ownership in the city: De Lange, M. (2012). Eigenaarschap: stedelingen betrekken bij hun stad met digitale...
View ArticleNew publication (in Dutch) about City, Play and Digital Media
Recently I contributed a short chapter to this publication: De Lange, M. (2012). Stad, spel, media: spelenderwijs eigenaar worden van je stad. In E. Holleman, R.-J. de Kort & S. Lindemann (Eds.),...
View ArticleReports on the ‘Designing for Ownership’ workshop at Strelka Institute, Moscow
From 9 − 14 July 2012 The Mobile City (in this case Marc Tuters and I) developed and gave a six-day workshop ’Designing for Ownership’ at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in...
View Article“Ontwerpen voor de mediastad” talk CAST Tilburg, 25 Sept 2012
A while ago I gave a talk “Designing for the media city” (in Dutch) at a very interesting evening called ‘City, Play, and Digital Media‘. It took place at the cozy Bomenlounge, a flexible working space...
View ArticleEindhoven Hackable World City: speculating on future investments for the city
Eindhoven Hackable World Cityby: Matthijs Bouw, Froukje van de Klundert, Michiel de Lange en Martijn de Waal, Amsterdam, 2013 (pdf 2.2 MB) A while ago The Mobile City (Martijn and I) was invited by...
View ArticleTalk 6 March 2013 ‘Play & the City’
The initiators of the urban game project Rezone in the city of Den Bosch have invited me to give a talk about play and ownership. Read the announcement below (in Dutch): Lezing – Michiel de Lange 6...
View ArticlePresentation “Playfully taking ownership over your media city” (in Dutch)
As announced in the last post, on 6 March 2013 I gave a talk for the urban game project Rezone in Den Bosch about (digital) play and citizen engagement with the media city. The evening was a kick-off...
View ArticleWatertorenberaad talk “Engaging citizens with new media” (Dutch), 18 April 2013
Last week on Thursday April 18 I was invited to give a talk at the yearly Watertorenberaad working conference. The Watertorenberaad is an informal Dutch network of real estate developers, housing...
View ArticlePlaying against vacancy: architects and game developers create games for...
[this post also appears on The Mobile City blog] About the project How can temporary playful interventions be used to engage people with the issue of vacancy? The Mobile City is a partner in the new...
View Article“Made By Us”: new program about industrial heritage and smart & social...
We are happy to announce Made By Us, a new project The Mobile City is partnering in with The New Institute. Made By Us is a six-month research-by-design program investigating creative reuses of former...
View ArticleReport workshop day1 “Made By Us: using smart technologies to repurpose...
[this post also appears on The Mobile City] Capital Steel Factory. As part of the overarching project Made By Us, The New Institute and The Mobile City in collaboration with CMoDA organize a two-day...
View ArticlePlaying for the Future: event April 17 2014 about play, games and urban...
Last year, The Mobile City partnered in the project “Rezone Playful Interventions” about the use of playful design strategies to repurpose vacant spaces. In this project three teams composed of an...
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