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…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021 Rianne Riemens 25 April 2021  When data centers meet tulips: researching the energy transition through a spatial ethnography  “Middenmeer is known for its tulips. Google is proud that our newest datacenter is located here,  an investment of no less than €…

This blogpost is a result of the graduate seminar “Informative Cities” 2021 Rianne Riemens April 21st, 2021 An ECO coin community for a greener economy?  New monetary systems, such as bitcoins, are increasingly introduced as alternative for formal  currencies. Especially small-scale, informal initiatives have the potential to foreground values that  remain underrepresented in institutionalized monetary…

This blog is a result of the graduate seminar series “Interfacing the (In)formal City” 2021. Rianne Riemens March 17th, 2021 Google is not a good neighbor:   platform presence contested  A new stream of activism contests the commercialization of public urban spaces by tech  companies. This type of activism critiques the rise of platform urbanism: the…