The 23. NECS Graduate Workshop, hosted by the University of Cologne and organised by , will take place from 29-31 October 2024. The workshop’s title, “L/Nightscapes: Perspectives on Illumination and the City”, refers to the mutual conditionality of night and … Read more...
How does popular music shape and reflect cultural identities? The symposium “From Hinterland to Europapa: Identity and Placemaking in Dutch Popular Music Culture”, taking place on 25 October from 14.00-17.00 at Radboud Institute for Culture and History, explores the intricate … Read more...
As part of International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Het Nieuwe Instituut is hosting a book launch of The Green Dip – a visual manifesto of an ongoing research project conducted by The Why Factory at TU Delft – on 10 October, … Read more...
The Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) is organizing the research seminar “What is Landscape? Theory, Aesthetic and Politics of Landscapes” – divided over six sessions from October 2024 to Spring 2025.
Led by Noa Roei and Irina Souch, this … Read more...
Is the future still a thing? Which relations open up when thinking about “no future” and hopelessness as an old/new “structure of feeling,” to speak with Raymond Williams? On 14 November, 15.00-17.00 at REC C4.50A, the Department of Human Geography, … Read more...
How might we expand our approach to urban research from a sensory perspective? What about multimodal methods and questions of representation concerning your research? The Department of Human Geography, Planning & International Development is organizing a masterclass lunch with Prof. … Read more...
In parallel to this year’s ASCA Cities Seminar, Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker are co-editing a special issue on “Playable Cities” for Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture to be published in September 2025. Some … Read more...
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The 2024–2025 ASCA Cities seminar will approach the city through the lens of play. Taking up the theme of ‘Playable Cities’, we are interested in how play functions both as a concept and method in representing, … Read more...
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In the final session of 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar on ‘Material Cities’, Yuriko Furuhata (McGill University) will give a guest lecture on “Self-Portraits of Coral: Visual Archives and Radiation Ecologies in the Anthropocene” followed by an … Read more...
Linda Kopitz in European Journal of Cultural Studies
This article proposes that virtual renderings of speculative architectural projects provide a crucial entry point into the reimagination of sustainable urban life through the production of nature(s) within the city. Drawing on
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In the fourth session of 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar on ‘Material Cities’, Maria Vélez-Serna (University of Sterling) will give a guest lecture on “Infrastructural and tactical cinema practices: A view from Scotland” followed by an open … Read more...
On Friday, April 19, María Vélez-Serna (University of Stirling) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Who Needs Cinemas? Screening Films in a Permacrisis”.
Mapping a city’s spaces and practices of communal film viewing is a way … Read more...
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In the third session of 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar on ‘Material Cities’, Joseph Heathcott (The New School) will give a guest lecture on “Lava and Concrete: Spatial Production in the Pedregal de Santo Domingo” followed by … Read more...
Urban food commons are critical for nourishing the post-growth city. In this talk hosted by the Postgrowth Cities Coalition, Oona Morrow (University of Wageningen) discusses the ways in which food (un)becoming waste can become a site for communing and … Read more...
On Friday, March 15, Joseph Heathcott (The New School) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Space, Time, and Infrastructure”. Together let us think infrastructure, not so much about it, but with it. In this masterclass, we approach infrastructure … Read more...
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In the second session of 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar on ‘Material Cities’, Letizia Chiappini (Universiteit Twente) will give a guest lecture on “The Urban Digital Platform: A Glitch between Digital Login and Urban Logout” followed by … Read more...
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The 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar will approach the city through the lens of materiality. Taking up the theme of ‘Material Cities’, we are interested in how making the city is both a material and … Read more...
On 28 September 2023, the Walking as Research Practice (WARP) Research Group of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis will present the Special Issue WARP x Soapbox Journal book at ENTER ENTER ‘A Space For Books’, Amsterdam, during the bring … Read more...
Image: Alex Shuper (2023)
The 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar will approach the city through the lens of materiality. Taking up the theme of ‘Material Cities’, we are interested in how making the city is both a material and … Read more...
The 2022-2023 ASCA Cities Seminar “More-than-Human Cities” will explore diverse technological, social, and natural systems that mediate urban environments, with a particular attention to human and non-human agencies, and urban interventions situated at the intersections of a sensing of the present and critical reenvisioning of the future.
Presenting findings from the recently published book Aesthetics of Gentrification (2021) – but also sharing new work on pandemic reshapings of public space – this talk will argue that many cities worldwide are experiencing a rise in coercive aesthetic practices following the social-spatial restrictions of lockdown.
Journal Article
Linda Kopitz
2022
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2022
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn
2022
The 2021-2022 ASCA Cities Seminar “(Post)Pandemic Urbanism #2: Unfolding the Socially-Distanced City” will explore the socially-distanced city as a developing process that encompasses issues of cross-disciplinary, experimental and technological initiatives, while questioning its concerns, possibilities and limitations.
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
Special Issue
Carolyn Birdsall, Anastasiya Halauniova and Linda van de Kamp
2021
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma
2021
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
October 23, 2020, Amsterdam
The workshop Digital Gaming and Urban Space explores the global context of how digital games and gaming impact urban life.
Chapter
Tânia A. Cardoso
2020
Announcing the 2020-21 Cities Seminar theme "(Post)Pandemic Urbanism". In response to the ongoing global pandemic, this seminar series will explore intersections between digital technologies and contemporary urban environments, from the vantage point of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices.
Edited book
Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, and Daan Wesselman
2020
Journal Article
Kasia Mika and Ilan Kelman
2020
Book Chapter
Alex Gekker and Sam Hind
2019
Book
Simon Ferdinand
2019
Edited book
Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti
2019