Michiel de Lange is an Associate Professor in New Media Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. He currently is the coordinator of the MA program New Media & Digital Culture. He is co-founder and core member of the [urban interfaces] research group. He chairs the special interest group "Inclusion in the datafied city" as part of the focus area Governing the Digital Society. Michiel works as a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play. Current and past projects include a NWO-funded Smart Culture – Creative Cities project called "Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities", the NWO KIEM and Creative Industries funded project “The Hackable City”, about the ways digital media shape the future of city making, and management committee membership of the EU funded COST Action Cyberparks.
In 2010 Michiel completed his PhD dissertation at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Faculty of Philosophy) called “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”, which concerns the ways in which mobile media technologies shape the construction of personal and cultural identities in urban settings. Michiel was trained as an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, and studied Industrial Design and Management for a year at the TU Delft. Michiel studies, writes, gives talks, and organizes events about media technologies in the city.
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