Delaram Ashtari (1989) is a PhD Candidate of Urban Planning at the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran. She holds a Master in Urban Design and a Bachelor in Urbanism from the University of Tehran. In these two programs, she ranked first among all graduating students. She is interested in the transformations of…

A hackathon hosted by SETUP in collaboration with Datafied Society & [urban interfaces]: could data-driven art make our urban public sphere great again? (RMA student Paul Smidt wrote a blogpost about this hackathon. Find it here!) After the election of Donald Trump and the Dutch elections approaching publicists warn for the distortion of the public debate….

  An expert meeting organized by Datafied Society and [urban interfaces], in collaboration with SETUP MediaLab and MCW Expertise Center The goal of this meeting is to facilitate a dialogue between academics and practitioners about the possibilities for innovative, critical and experimental forms of “bringing  back” data to (urban) publics. Or, in other words, we…

On January 10, from 15.00 – 17.00hrs, [urban interfaces] in collaboration with MCW’s Datafied Society and the MCW Expertise Centre organises a lecture and research meeting, this time with Shannon Mattern as our guest speaker with the lecture: Interfaces in an Expanding Field. Urban screens, media facades, public kiosks, travel monitors, and smartphones are among the countless screens that permeate our urban…

We are very happy to welcome Simon Wind and Ole B. Jensen from the Centre of Mobilities & Urban Studies (C-MUS) at the Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, Aalborg University in Denmark. In recent years there has been a turn towards the notion of ‘Smart City’ amongst urban scholars and professionals. Smart City is…