[urban interfaces] is a research platform for a critical investigation of urban interfaces for creative and participatory engagement at the crossing of academic research and creative practices. Focusing on mobile and situated media, arts, and performances, [urban interfaces] fosters critical reflections on, and interventions in, these socio-spatial and somatechnical activities and their shaping and staging of urban culture. 

[urban interfaces] is an initiative of the Department for Media and Culture Studies (MCW) and seeks collaboration with an expanding local and international network of academic and cultural partners. 

For more information, see urbaninterfaces.net.

• dr. Imar de Vries
• dr. Sigrid Merx
• dr. Michiel de Lange
• dr. Anastasia Hacopian PhD
• dr. Dan Hassler-Forest
• dr. Rick Dolphijn

A transdisciplinary toolkit for mapping and analysing urgent issues around infrastructures in public spaces
In order to allow citizens to engage with, and work collaboratively toward, (more) sustainable urban futures, we need awareness of the infrastructures that co-shape our private and public lives, their interrelations, and one’s own participatory position within these networks. To enable this ‘infrastructural thinking’ and the co-creative processes around it, this project develops a transdisciplinary toolkit for creative urban methods. As a seed money project for the Tranforming Infrastructures for Sustainable Cities hub, we aim to create a robust methodology for research into (futures for) sustainable urban infrastructures through a productive exchange between the social sciences, geosciences and the humanities.

• prof. dr. Martijn Oosterbaan
• dr. Sigrid Merx
• dr. Irina van Aalst

UU-based research group [urban interfaces] is one of the co-organizers of the 2020 edition of the Media Architectuur Biennale. The Media Architecture Biennale is a series of international events for designers, artists, researchers and policy makers exploring urban interaction design and the role of media in urban spaces: from urban screens and interactive installations in public space, to smart cities & citizens applications and the theme of playful cities.

• dr. Michiel de Lange

• Martijn de Waal (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
• Frank Suurenbroek (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)