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Maps of Daily Trajectories

May 2014 An investigation on how people draw their daily trajectories. I asked eighty people in two different cities (Utrecht and Eindhoven)of different ages to participate. An interesting finding: The homeless participants were the only ones to draw and mention people as important

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Maps of Daily Trajectories

May 2014 An investigation on how people draw their daily trajectories. I asked eighty people in two different cities (Utrecht and Eindhoven)of different ages to participate. An interesting finding: The homeless participants were the only ones to draw and mention people as important

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Emotional mapping

Local residents (students) from Eindhoven were asked to use a web-application on their mobile phone throughout the day and for the duration of three weeks. They were asked to introduce adjectives to places that trigger a certain feeling. They could

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Emotional mapping

Local residents (students) from Eindhoven were asked to use a web-application on their mobile phone throughout the day and for the duration of three weeks. They were asked to introduce adjectives to places that trigger a certain feeling. They could

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Co-creating Reality

In the three day workshop students (Design Academy Eindhoven and Accademia di belle arti Venezia), were asked to map traces or practices of (informal) appropriation of public space in the six Sestieri (the six neighborhoods) of Venice.  The students were asked to

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Co-creating Reality

In the three day workshop students (Design Academy Eindhoven and Accademia di belle arti Venezia), were asked to map traces or practices of (informal) appropriation of public space in the six Sestieri (the six neighborhoods) of Venice.  The students were asked to

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Mapping as a Powerful Design Research Tool

This short article was written in collaboration with David Hamers. We present mapping as a powerful design research tool and describe the use of digital technologies in mapping in my research. It was written for the Public Space Magazine of Design Academy

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Mapping as a Powerful Design Research Tool

This short article was written in collaboration with David Hamers. We present mapping as a powerful design research tool and describe the use of digital technologies in mapping in my research. It was written for the Public Space Magazine of Design Academy

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Borders

Borders is an interactive installation that translates movement into sound. With the work I seek to communicate the paradox inherent in boundaries –the line that divides but needs cooperation to exist– and put emphasis on the playful process of its

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Borders

Borders is an interactive installation that translates movement into sound. With the work I seek to communicate the paradox inherent in boundaries –the line that divides but needs cooperation to exist– and put emphasis on the playful process of its

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City Craft event : gamification for area development

As part of the exhibition MozaiekBrabant, this event was about gamification for participatory urban & area development. A mixed crowd of game designers, spatial designers, urbanists, architects and developers gathered to find common ground in a debate around the potentiality

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City Craft event : gamification for area development

As part of the exhibition MozaiekBrabant, this event was about gamification for participatory urban & area development. A mixed crowd of game designers, spatial designers, urbanists, architects and developers gathered to find common ground in a debate around the potentiality

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Introducing digital methods for on-going civic engagement for design in public space: how mining and mapping social media data can help inform spatial designers about a local context

Submitted: May 2015 This paper (publication forthcoming) was written together with Saba Golchehr. I presented the paper at University of Hasselt’s conference ‘Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation’ (May 2015) and at University of Utrecht for the BA course Communication in social media (November

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Introducing digital methods for on-going civic engagement for design in public space: how mining and mapping social media data can help inform spatial designers about a local context

Submitted: May 2015 This paper (publication forthcoming) was written together with Saba Golchehr. I presented the paper at University of Hasselt’s conference ‘Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation’ (May 2015) and at University of Utrecht for the BA course Communication in social media (November

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The City as Interface : how social networking services remediate the city

July 2014 Where in the city do people hang out? What groups do they form? What do they talk about? Today, as we spend most or our time ‘online’ (in public space, but often only half present) finding an answer

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The City as Interface : how social networking services remediate the city

July 2014 Where in the city do people hang out? What groups do they form? What do they talk about? Today, as we spend most or our time ‘online’ (in public space, but often only half present) finding an answer

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Liveability of Amsterdam ; the narrative that twitter data constructs of Amsterdam

July 2014 The Digital Methods Summer School, hosted by the University of Amsterdam took place from June 23 until July 4 2014.  DMI seeks to learn from the methods built into the devices online, by subtracting the data (links, tags,

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Liveability of Amsterdam ; the narrative that twitter data constructs of Amsterdam

July 2014 The Digital Methods Summer School, hosted by the University of Amsterdam took place from June 23 until July 4 2014.  DMI seeks to learn from the methods built into the devices online, by subtracting the data (links, tags,

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Civic City

October 2009 Civic City is a group exhibition that took place in Barcelona at Elisava (Pompeu Fabra University). Under the direction of Ruedi Baur different Master students collaborated in this exhibition which aimed to explore the different neighbourhoods in Barcelona and enhance neighbourhood identity.

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Civic City

October 2009 Civic City is a group exhibition that took place in Barcelona at Elisava (Pompeu Fabra University). Under the direction of Ruedi Baur different Master students collaborated in this exhibition which aimed to explore the different neighbourhoods in Barcelona and enhance neighbourhood identity.

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