UrgentCity

26/12/2018

All interviews conducted by Amateur Cities and New Generations for the UrgentCity project, are now published at urbanNext. Have a look at them again!

'UrgentCity, Towards a New Vocabulary of Terms' is a research project paired with a program of activities, which investigates the challenges present in communication and collaboration between disciplines involved in city making and addressing urban challenges. We start from the premise that the lang...

02/11/2018

Here's a look back at the Dutch Design Awards 2018 exhibition at Dutch Design Week.

29/06/2018

We have been silent for a while, but we have big news to share. UrgentCity is among winners of Dutch Design Awards 2018 in category Design Research. We are proud to be among these fantastic projects! Congratulations to all the winners and big thank you to Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Olandiamo - Ambasciata e Consolato Generale dei Paesi Bassi in Italia as well as our amazing team for making this happen!

We are very happy to announce the winners of : The Incredible Machine, Robert Bronwasser Design & Circa Alarm, Aleksandra Gaca (PRODUCT), Ana Rocha Architecture, bureau SLA & Overtreders W and NEXT architects (HABITAT), Hansje van Halem Studio, Chives Archives & Putgootink and Moniker (COMMUNICATION), Maison the Faux, Johannes Offerhaus and Schueller de Waal (FASHION), MacGuffin, Amateur Cities and Joris Laarman & MX3D Bridge (DESIGN RESEARCH), Anastasia Eggers & Ottonie Roeder, Swapfiets and Freshheads (SERVICE&SYSTEMS), Social Label, Royal Delft & FLEX/design & twnkls | augmented reality and Fabrique (BEST CLIENT), Manon van Hoeckel, Olivier van Herpt and Lisa Konno (YOUNG DESIGNER)! 🍾🍾🍾

Congratulations to all winners of a Dutch Design Award 2018!

14/08/2017

Anyone in Moscow tomorrow? Amateur Cities will be running an UrgentCity workshop at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design on the 15&16 of August. Looking forward to revisiting our experience with new people and different discussions on urban vocabulary.

How can terminology and language influence changes in the environment and the cultural landscape? Learn how to talk about the city simply and clearly with interdisciplinary language researchers from UrgentCity

13/03/2017

Urgent City - bookmark of the week

"When one of Donald Trump’s closest aids coined the term ‘alternative facts’ there was uproar. But, the reality could, indeed, be more complex". Take a look at what Philip Seargeant wrote about the truth, ‘alternative facts’ and the way language is always subject to change.

Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have apparently surged since Kellyanne Conway introduced the phrase “alternative facts” into public discourse.

09/03/2017

Did you already take a look at the complete UrgentCity interview series?

You can now watch all 20 INTERVIEWS realized by Amateur Cities and New Generations on → www.urgentcity.eu ←

Enjoy all the different thoughts, personal anecdotal stories and reflections we had the opportunity to collect from a variety of multidisciplinary experts!

06/03/2017

Urgent City - bookmark of the week

Where are the world's newest cities…and why do they all look the same?
"Thousands of new cities are needed to house the increasing global population – projected to reach 10bn by 2060." From China’s planned Jing-Jin-Ji hypercity to African techno hubs and sprawling refugee camps, Adam Greenfield explores what the future holds.

Thousands of new cities are needed to house the increasing global population – projected to reach 10bn by 2060. From China’s planned Jing-Jin-Ji hypercity to African techno hubs and sprawling refugee camps, Adam Greenfield explores what the future holds

27/02/2017

Urgent City - bookmark of the week

Is the collective a new way of living or an old one, commodified? Here what Matthew Stewart has to say about it, on Failed Architecture.

Sold to Generation Yers as “curated communities”, London's The Collective Old Oak is a pricey copy of 1930s modernist projects, stripped of their social agendas.

20/02/2017

Urgent City - bookmark of the week

Can gentrification can be predicted by tweets?: "By combining social media data – indicating a more affluent visitor to an area – with statistics on rising house prices and dropping crime rates, the computer science researchers were able to show a link with gentrification. The researchers identified four key factors for working out social diversity. Brokerage, the likelihood of someone visiting an area alone or with friends; serendipity, the likelihood of people visiting a place; entropy, the diversity of visitors and the homogeneity of an area and its visitors". writes Matt Burgess. Take a look at the full article on WIRED and check out what researchers at Cambridge University discovered by looking at tweets and Foursquare check-ins.

The gentrification of London boroughs can be predicted from tweets and Foursquare check-ins, researchers at Cambridge University have found