Here are some visual impressions of the three-day workshop Social Cities of Tomorrow:
Category Archives: Workshop Reports
Workshop outcomes
These are the results of the three-day “Social Cities of Tomorrow” workshop (14 − 16 Feb. 2012). Most teams made two presentations: a longer one for the public presentation at Mediamatic on 16 February 2012, and a shorter one for the … Continue reading
Designing Trust
The event Social Cities of Tomorrow that took place last Friday opened up with a series of workshops at the ARCAM (Architecture Center of Amsterdam) earlier this week and brought together local stakeholder organizations and participants from different backgrounds to … Continue reading
A strong social city.
On Thursday night the four groups presented their results and prototypes that they had been respectively working on during the workshops. The event, which took place at Mediamatic, was completely sold out. “When you do an image search for the … Continue reading
Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 2]
On the evening of Thursday the 16th of February the workshop teams presented their results at Mediamatic. This post will be about teams 3 and 4. The reports on teams 1 and 2 can be found here. With the presentations … Continue reading
Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 1]
The report on the presentations of teams 3 and 4 can be found here. For the last few days now, our four teams have been hard at work coming up with ideas, concepts and solutions for each of their cases. … Continue reading
Combined skills.
The week began with the contrasting view of the semi-frozen canal and the taste of warm coffee. Once everyone arrived at the ground floor of ARCAM, and as it is accustomed in this type of event, the introductory presentation … Continue reading
The Workshop Update!
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
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








