Today was day 2 of the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. Work on all four of the cases is now well underway and we thought it would a good idea to ask the teams for a quick update on how … Continue reading
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Play Noord! Gaming and City Planning
What does bottom-up participation in city design actually mean? That’s one of the questions emerging from Ekim Tan’s presentation at ARCAM today, preceding the second day of workshops at the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. The Istanbul-born, Netherlands-based designer, founder … Continue reading
Cities of the Future
The home page of the Social Cities of Tomorrow website opens with the following statement: “Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies, from smart cards and intelligent GPS systems to social media and smartphones. How can we … Continue reading
Kick-starting the future
For a long time the term ‘social city’ has been all talk. The workgroup at the ‘Social Cities of Tomorrow’ conference is a stepping-stone to apply theory to practice. Workshop attendees got together this morning at the ‘Arcam’ (Stichting Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam) building to work out how … Continue reading