— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During the course of the Urban Friction seminars, we discovered the potential socio-political and cultural repercussions of frictional interventions and engagements in urban life. As the etymology of the word suggests, friction means “rubbing” or “breaking”, which underlines physical connotations. However, in…

— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — During SPRING festival in May 2018, I visited the performance piece Think Much. Cry Much. by Rima Najdi, which took place within the URBAN HEAT project initiated by the Festival in Transition network. Rima Najdi’s piece came forth from her travels though…

Critical Making: An Inspiring Workshop — This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — The Urban Friction 2017-2018 seminar series, organized by the [urban interfaces] research group, existed of four sessions. In one of those sessions, participants were invited to partake in a two-day pressure cooker revolving around the idea of…

A Citizen’s Right to Being Visible in the City — This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 —   “–What do we know of the man? Absolutely nothing. We don’t have an inkling of his past. That could be an asset. A man’s past cripples him. His background turns into a…

— This article is part of the Urban Friction seminar series 2017-2018 — The Urban Frictions graduate seminar 2017-2018 provided insights into the intricate processes of developing, as well as analyzing urban interfaces, as a way of engaging in contemporary discourses on the impact of exponentially growing mediatized urban environments. In this reflection, I will…