Author Archive: Michiel de Lange

Guest blogpost: Verena Kämpken – Hauntological Architecture, Frankfurt’s newly built oldtown ensemble and spectral city politics. (Conversation between a Ghost and a Living)
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #3, written by Verena Kämpken. With a background of a BA in Sociology and Human Geography from Goethe-University in…
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Guest blogpost: Kim Sommer – Technology’s enchantments: Magical pathways into alternative urban futures
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for seminar session #2, written by Kim Sommer. Kim Sommer is a student of the Media, Art and Performance program at Utrecht…
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Guest blogpost: Verena Kämpken – Artificial Gods & Metaverse Heavens: Futures between Magic and Technic
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for the second seminar session, written by Verena Kämpken With a background of a BA in Sociology and Human Geography from Goethe-University…
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Guest Contribution Jackson Moffatt – “In Touch But Not Together”: Exploring Urban Interfaces Through Electronic Dance Music Performance
The [urban interfaces] research group (ir)regularly accepts guest blog contributions. This contribution – written by Jackson Moffatt – is an edited version of a paper produced as part of the level 3 course at Utrecht University, called ‘Spaces and Screens’ in the BA Media and Culture; advanced trajectory Film & Media Culture and Comparative Media Studies….
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guest blogpost: Sara Brunello – What magic can do
For our [urban interfaces] seminar series on the theme The Magic City (2021-2022), we invited participants to write blogposts. The best and most interesting ones we publish on our website. Below is the blogpost for week 1, written by Sara Brunello Sara Brunello is a Media, Art and Performance student at Utrecht University. Her research centres…
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