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Exploring Presence

Utrecht University, Lustrum 2021 Exercise 6: Nothing happens here Introduction: walking the borders of the research area The city of Utrecht is both a city of the past and the future. Being one of the oldest cities of the Netherlands, Utrecht and its architecture remind us daily of earlier times. At the same time Utrecht…

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CRUM blog series @ KWALON

June 30 2021 the first blog of the series Creative Urban Methods (CRUM) was launched at KWALON (platform for qualitative research). Bringing together new creative research methods in the social and geo sciences, and the humanities, CRUM aims to develop a toolkit of interdisciplinary methods for mapping and analyzing (issues around) infrastructures within public space…

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Media Architecture Biennale 2021

Interview with Prof. Nanna Verhoeff (CRUM member) and Dr. Michiel de Lange about the Media Architecture Biennale 2021. Read more about smart cities and creative methods here.

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Walking-Thinking

Event: Open City Initiative Seminar What is an open city? What makes a city open? When do we experience a city as open?  How we answer these questions not only depends on how we define openness, but also on our personal experiences of and in the city and neighbourhood that we live in, especially in…

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Exploring Present Futures

Event: Onderwijsparade 2021 “Space is to design what movement is to dance or sound is to music. Like movement space is something that we use every day in all our activities … walking down the street, opening a door, laying down, sitting up etc. Our task (…) is to first become consciously aware of space…

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