On February 27-28, Rotterdam welcomes The Mobile City, a conference about locative and mobile media and its relationship to the urban environment. Find out more about the event and how to get involved.
The Mobile City will bring together urban professionals (architects, designers, planners), media designers and academics to discuss the question, “What happens to urban culture when physical and digital spaces merge?”
The conference site goes on to explain that virtual and physical spaces are no longer discrete. “It is no longer useful or even possible to talk about the city as being only physical, or the digital world as purely %27virtual’ (not real or not material). The physical city and the spaces of digital technologies merge into %27hybrid space’. These developments in formerly separated domains profoundly influence the ideas we have of time, space and place, citizenship and identity.”
The conference will feature talks from such notable speakers as Malcolm McCullough, Stephen Graham, Christian Nold and Tim Cresswell. There are also workshops and project presentations. If you are interested in presenting your own work in the locative/mobile media technologies field, there is an open call for participation until January 31, 2008.
Are you planning to attend or to show work at The Mobile City? Have you explored similar intersections between the virtual and physical worlds? Talk about your ideas in the comments section.
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