2022-23: More-than-Human Cities
The 2022-2023 ASCA Cities Seminar “More-than-Human Cities” will explore diverse technological, social, and natural systems that mediate urban environments, with a particular attention to human and non-human agencies, and urban interventions situated at the intersections of a sensing of the present and critical reenvisioning of the future.
Guest Lecture “Luxury City: Aesthetics and Exclusion After Lockdown” by Christoph Lindner
Presenting findings from the recently published book Aesthetics of Gentrification (2021) – but also sharing new work on pandemic reshapings of public space – this talk will argue that many cities worldwide are experiencing a rise in coercive aesthetic practices following the social-spatial restrictions of lockdown.
Illustrated Cities: Amsterdam Remembered and Imagined Amidst the Pandemic
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2022
The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps through the Professionalization of Hosting
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn
2022
2021-22: (Post)Pandemic Urbanism #2: Unfolding the Socially-Distanced City
The 2021-2022 ASCA Cities Seminar “(Post)Pandemic Urbanism #2: Unfolding the Socially-Distanced City” will explore the socially-distanced city as a developing process that encompasses issues of cross-disciplinary, experimental and technological initiatives, while questioning its concerns, possibilities and limitations.
Draw(ing) on Absence: A Reflection on (Post)Pandemic Ground-based Illustration Practice
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
Sensing Urban Values
Special Issue
Carolyn Birdsall, Anastasiya Halauniova and Linda van de Kamp
2021
Platformed Professionalization: Labor, Assets, and Earning a Livelihood through Airbnb
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma
2021
To Know as You Draw: Exploring the City through Drawing
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
Digital Gaming and Urban Space workshop
October 23, 2020, Amsterdam
The workshop Digital Gaming and Urban Space explores the global context of how digital games and gaming impact urban life.
Between an Illustrator and an Urban Place: The Dynamic between Word and Image in Illustrated Cities
Chapter
Tânia A. Cardoso
2020
2020-21: (Post)Pandemic Urbanism
Announcing the 2020-21 Cities Seminar theme “(Post)Pandemic Urbanism”. In response to the ongoing global pandemic, this seminar series will explore intersections between digital technologies and contemporary urban environments, from the vantage point of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices.
Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century
Edited book
Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, and Daan Wesselman
2020
Shealing: Post‐disaster Slow Healing and Later Recovery
Journal Article
Kasia Mika and Ilan Kelman
2020
On Autopilot: Towards a Flat Ontology of Vehicular Navigation
Book Chapter
Alex Gekker and Sam Hind
2019
Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity
Book
Simon Ferdinand
2019
Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond
Edited book
Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti
2019
Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization
Edited book
2019
Simon Ferdinand, Irene Villaescusa-Illán, and Esther Peeren
Dr. Patricia Barkaskas
Visiting Researcher (Winter 2019-20)
University of British Columbia
Blurred Lines: Challenging Urban Grids On and Off the Page in City Illustration
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2019
Guest Lecture: “Unmaking a Chocolate City: Spatial Aesthetics of Race and the Gentrifying Urban Landscape” by Brandi T. Summers
Tracing Washington, D.C.’s shift from a Chocolate City to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis, this talk discusses the continuing significance of blackness in the U.S. capital, and discuss how blackness is integral to our understanding of the city.
Book launch: Visualising the street. New ways of seeing and documenting the city
21 March 2019 (Spui25, Amsterdam)
2019-20: Cultures of Urban (In)Justice
Announcing the 2019-20 Cities Seminar theme “Cultures of Urban (In)Justice”. In this seminar series, we will explore dynamics of spatial (in)justice from the vantage of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices in contemporary urban environments.
2018-2019: Repairing Infrastructures
Announcing the 2018-19 Cities Seminar theme “Repairing Infrastructures”. In this seminar series, we will explore the city in relation to infrastructure, taking stock of its many failures and crises, while attending to possibilities for alternative material and social infrastructures.
World-Making in Urban Cultural Studies
Special issue
Carolyn Birdsall and Simone Kalkman
2018
Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
Edited book
Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff
2018
