You throw a piece of paper in the waste bin and the local waste management authority receives a signal that the bin is full; you walk down the street in the dark and the sensor-sensitive lamppost switches on; Google Maps recommends an alternative route to reach your final destination more quickly. These are all examples…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Lisa Spinelli.   Lisbon and the Pandemic: Urban (In)Formal Structures and Practices In contemporary urban settings, multiple structures are shaping the way people live their lives, from transportations, to economic transactions, and, up to a certain point, to the…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Andre Joglekar.   Digital Cartography: From Mapping Places To Mapping Society   Cartography has had an essential role in contemporary communication. The spread of GPS (Global  Positioning System) in mobile phones, interactive mapping tools and social networks through the  internet…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Written by Floor Mijland.   The Potential of Political Spaces The [Urban Interfaces] seminar of place March 18th, titled ‘(In)formalizing the City: Commons, Agonisms, Interventions’, centred around the topic of ‘emerging citizen-centric and technology-enabled ways of re-configuring and re-engaging with current…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021 Rianne Riemens  26 April 2021  Formalizing the informal: ’structures of feeling’ in the work of Jeanne van Heeswijk  Within the field of urban humanities, there is often an emphasis on local experiences in urban  environments, and the ways in which these…