This summer, The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform organize ‘Designing the Hybrid City’. This event explores the role of digital media and technologies in urban design. It takes place in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, August 16-17 2010.

http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/

Main theme: how do new media alter urban culture and change urban design?

Mobile and wireless media, as well... [read more]

This summer, The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform organize ‘Designing the Hybrid City’. This event explores the role of digital media and technologies in urban design. It takes place in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, August 16-17 2010.

http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/

Main theme: how do new media alter urban culture and change urban design?

Mobile and wireless media, as well as technologies that can sense and react to what is happening around them, increasingly shape our urban environment and turn our cities into ‘hybrid cities’. What does this mean for urban design? How should we deal with this emerging relation between new media technologies and the city? Which approaches have already proven successful? Which experiments have the most promise? What can different disciplines involved in urban, media and interface design learn from each other? And how is the process of urban design itself changing?

Who is this for?

We invite professionals involved in the shaping of the 21st-century city to join us in Shanghai. Whether you are a city planner, architect, (academic) researcher, artist, media- or interface designer, or developer of mobile apps, what counts is that you have an open mind towards other disciplines, and that you like to discuss your ideas and experiences and show your best practices.

Program: keynotes and open sessions

‘Designing the Hybrid City’ consists of keynote lectures and a program of ‘Open Sessions’ in which participants are invited to showcase their own work and design approach or organize relevant debates or workshops. With: Aaron Tan (Rad), Carlo Ratti (MIT Senseable City Lab), Jack Qiu, Isaac Mao, Caroline Bos (UNStudio), Anne Nigten (The Patching Zone), Christian van 't Hof (Rathenau Instituut), Li Zhenhua (Laboratory Art Beijing, Shanghai eArts), XML Architecture with TwitterHouse and Space&Matter Architects and many others.

Full program:
http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/program/

Registration

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Please register here: http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/registration/

DESIGNING THE HYBRID CITY is part of Adaptation:Designing the Future City; a combination of independent events that are organized by V2_, Dynamic City Foundation (DCF), Virtueel Platform, Cybercity Ruhr, Shanghai eARTS and The Mobile City that take place in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai August 14-17 2010.

ADAPTATION: DESIGNING THE FUTURE CITY explores a new agenda for urban design. How can we design sustainable and ever evolving cities? What role do media, art and technology play in urban design?

See:

http://www.adaptation.nu/