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.
Affective Architecture: Encountering Care in Built Environments
Journal Article Linda Kopitz 2022
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
Curating the Urban Music Festival
Journal Article Paulo Nunes and Carolyn Birdsall 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
Unforeseeable Situations: A Confined Reflection
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
Infrastructural Surveillance
Journal Article Alex Gekker and Sam Hind 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
Dr. Derek Gladwin
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)
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
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives: Writing Haiti’s Futures
Book Kasia Mika 2018
A line in the sand: IPCC’s “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” and the public discourse of tipping points
A line in the sand: IPCC's "Global Warming of 1.5 °C" and the public discourse of tipping points Event at Spui25
Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities
Edited Book Alex Gekker et al. 2018
2017-18: Entangled Cities
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.
Methodological Tools for Explorations of Urban Changes in Built Environments
Review Essay Karin Christof 2018
Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Book Review Simon Ferdinand 2018
Wandering Cars and Extended Presence: Abbas Kiarostami’s Embodied Cinema of Everyday Mobility
Journal Article Pedram Dibazar 2017
Capturing Commemoration: Using Mobile Recordings Within Memory Research
Journal Article Carolyn Birdsall and Danielle Drozdzewski 2017