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

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

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

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

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,