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.
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.
Special issue
Carolyn Birdsall and Simone Kalkman
2018
Edited book
Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff
2018
A line in the sand: IPCC's "Global Warming of 1.5 °C" and the public discourse of tipping points
Event at Spui25
Announcing the 2017-2018 Cities Seminar theme “Entangled Cities”. In this seminar series, we will explore processes of entanglement in relation to the production of urban environments, with attention to mapping practices, networked infrastructures, and ecological politics.
Review Essay
Karin Christof
2018
Book Review
Simon Ferdinand
2018
Journal Article
Pedram Dibazar
2017
Visiting Scholar (Winter 2017-18)
Federal University of Itajubá / University of Coimbra
Journal Article
Carolyn Birdsall and Danielle Drozdzewski
2017
Journal Article
Karin Christof
2017
Book Chapter
Ben Moore
2017
June 1-2 2017, Amsterdam
The international workshop Urban World-Making explores contemporary processes of 'worlding' in relation to urban environments.
Journal Article
Simon Ferdinand
2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 Cities Seminar topic “Urban World-Makingâ€. In this seminar series, we will explore processes of world-making in relation to the production of urban environments and in creative, cultural and political practices under conditions of globalization.
Book Chapter
Ben Moore
2016
This lecture will elaborate on Jane Jacobs and her less well-known visions on economic growth and forms of social and political organization that shape urban life.
Edited Book
Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner
2016
This lecture will offer a comparative approach to the performative dynamics of celebrity in street art, with reference to Banksy and Alexandre Farto (the Portuguese street artist aka Vhils)
This talk is part of a larger project that explores the longue duree, the deep time, of urban mediation, and examines the aggregated histories of city-building, mud-molding and mark-making.
PhD project, Özge Calafato (2016-2020)
Journal Article
Simon Ferdinand
2016
This talk discusses an experimental pedagogical video project, made in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, that draws upon the emerging mobile aesthetics of cellphone filmmaking and public encounters with revolutionary spontaneity.
Director, ASCA Cities Project / Department of Media Studies
University of Amsterdam
Journal Article
Niall Martin
2015
Book Chapter
Pedram Dibazar
2016
Edited Book
Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner
2016
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2016
The Question of the Image in the Networked Age: handwritten notes, Flipcam diaries, and YouTube remixes from the battlefield in Syria.
The ASCA Cities Project is pleased to be hosting a free public screening of URBAN TIDES, a documentary about the making of De Ceuvel in Amsterdam-Noord.
For the international conference Visualizing the Street, the ASCA Cities Project invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of image-making on the visual cultures of the street.
Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary book series addressing the interrelations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce. The series takes a special interest in the impact of globalization on urban space and cultural production, but remains concerned with all forms of cultural expression and transformation associated with contemporary cities.
Announcing the 2015-2016 Cities Seminar topic "Visualizing the Street". In this seminar series, we will explore the impact of new technologies and cultures of image-making on contemporary practices of visualizing the street.