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 session #1, written by Kim Sommer. Kim Sommer is a student of the Media, Art and Performance program at Utrecht University….

Our [urban interfaces] member Dan Hassler-Forest is one of the team member of the Anders Utrecht, an initiative that intends to build a forum for future collaboration. Since March 2021, Anders Utrecht has produced a podcast series in collaboration with local grassroots organisations from Utrecht. These episodes are a tool to give voice, share experiences and

Chapter published in “Speculative Design Methods for Citizen Engagement in Smart Cities Research”

Our yearly [urban interfaces] seminar series, organized as part of RMeS, is themed “The Magic City”. This year there is a lot of interest in the seminar, we’re fully booked with over 20 participants. Dates: 5 April 2022 (15:00 – 17:00), 26 April 2022 (15:00 – 17:00) and 10 May 2022 (14:00 – 17:00 with

Bill McKibben wrote, ‘We live in a post-natural world.’ But did ‘Nature’ in this sense ever exist? Or was it rather the deification of the human that gave it an illusory apartness from ourselves? Now that non-human agencies have dispelled that illusion, we are confronted suddenly with a new task: that of finding other ways