[Air-L] MAB20 | Newsletter - Sept 2020

Thu Sep 3 00:31:44 PDT 2020

Dear MAB-Community,

September has already begun and the organizers of MAB20 are re-energized and back at work! As you know, we have set new dates for MAB20, 28 June - 2 July, 2021, and we are working towards it while also making contingency plans in order to best adapt to the uncertainties of current times. Our calls will relaunch soon, and we will keep you updated on them via our online platforms and newsletters.

Meanwhile, we have also restarted our series of events, the first one coming up next week, which you can find out more about it below. And keep letting us know about your projects, publications & events, and we will share them on our MAB Community section.

** EVENTS
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Impulse, Lateral Office and CS Design (photo: Ulysse Lemerise / OSA)
Tune in for our next online event: Media Architecture Today, for Tomorrow’s Cities
Sep 10th | 14:00 – 15:00 CET at Pakhuis de Zwijger (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=47dae9f121&e=e0fc435bb0)

Media Architecture: what is it, and why does it matter?
Media architecture is a newly emerging discipline, integrating digital and physical elements in the design of our cities. As a part of The Media Architecture Biennale 20, this program will explore how the design and deployment of new media technologies like urban screens, interactive art installations, and digital sensor networks can shape urban life beyond the mere spectacular, by envisioning and fuelling public debates about possible futures of the media city. Join us in this conversation and, together, let's explore how can Media Architecture help us to critically reflect on and envision the future of our cities?

Speakers:
Nanna Verhoeff (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=87eeb64006&e=e0fc435bb0)  -  Utrecht University
Frank Suurenbroek (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=9fc2d1d72d&e=e0fc435bb0)  - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dave Colangelo (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=39001e63c8&e=e0fc435bb0)  -  Ryerson University
Filippo Lodi (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=47123e11ba&e=e0fc435bb0)  -  UNStudio

Moderator:
Michiel de Lange (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=feb0c7569d&e=e0fc435bb0)  - Utrecht University
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** MAB COMMUNITY
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WEBINAR SERIES | Jason Bruges Studio (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=789ee591ea&e=e0fc435bb0)  has been running an online series of 30-minute talks where multi-disciplinary artist and designer, Jason Bruges, delves into the Studio’s archive to rediscover some of the most intriguing experiments and prototypes. The next session is all about the team. The Studio is loosely divided into a creative team and a technical team but there is consistent collaboration across the two departments.

You will have the opportunity to hear from our Senior Designer, Adam Wadey, Computational Designer, Chris Waters, Creative Technologist, Dhruv Kumar and Head of Production, Richard Broom. Each will describe their route to the Studio and their experiences working on recent projects.

Tune in via Zoom on Sep 9th,^ 17:00-17:30 (London GMT+1)
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DOSSIER | Take a look at the recent MEDIAPOLIS (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=701360c547&e=e0fc435bb0)  dossier: Media in the Physically Distanced City, which examines how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media. This edition features relevant and thought-provoking contributions from a number of members of the MAB-Community:

Introduction: Media and the Physically Distanced City (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=4c11069d77&e=e0fc435bb0)
Written by: dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer

Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=4de19f5db6&e=e0fc435bb0)
Written by: Nanna Verhoeff and Sigrid Merx

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=c78c29297a&e=e0fc435bb0)
Written by: Shanti Sumartojo et al.

COVID Nights (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=306e12a061&e=e0fc435bb0)
Written by: Will Straw
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CAHIER | In the context of the themes from the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=b1ba755121&e=e0fc435bb0) : How will we live together? and the Dutch pavilion: Who is we? (commissioned by the Het Nieuwe Instituut (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=272280656a&e=e0fc435bb0) ), ‘Cahier 1: Values of Survival’ reflects upon the worlds of policy, research, and design. Edited by Caroline Nevejan and Huda Abi Fares, and featuring a long list of authors, this publication brings together a wide diversity of voices on a number of urgent social, urban, and ecological issues.

“Cahier 1: Values for Survival” explores themes such as: Polyphonic Cities, Multispecies Urbanism, The Multiplicity of Other, Sharing Research and Circular City, and provides reflections on a number of futures to imply into media architecture, including more than human perspectives. This closely relates to our MAB20’s theme #FuturesImplied, which questions what future scenarios are implied in today’s urban context? And how can we shape our urban technologies to respond to their surroundings, contributing to cities that are both socially and ecologically sustainable?
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATION | Kavita Gonsalves lead Marcus Foth, and MAB chairs Glenda Caldwell and Waldemar Jenek, in the development of a video presentation for the AMPS conference - Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media.

The presentation is titled: “Radical Placemaking: Immersive, Experiential and Activist Approaches for Marginalised Communities” and it proposes the concept of Radical Placemaking as a placemaking tactic of the marginalized where the term ‘Radical’ comes from Paulo Freire’s seminal work ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’. The elements of ‘Radical Placemaking’ are categorized into ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘what’. This forms a significant part of Kavita Gonsalves’ PhD work at Urban Informatics, QUTDesign Lab (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=90026e8b16&e=e0fc435bb0) .

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATION | Earlier this year, MAB chairs and University of Sydney Design Lab researchers, Marius Hoggenmüller, Luke Hespanhol, and Martin Tomitsch wrote a paper together, which got accepted for the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=6ba774e3d2&e=e0fc435bb0) .

The paper, entitled “Stop and Smell the Chalk Flowers: A Robotic Probe for Investigating Urban Interaction with Physicalised Displays” explores the topic of urban robots and physicalised displays. To access and read the full paper, click here (https://facebook.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98b784859935f80b0b03b5324&id=d38a3394ed&e=e0fc435bb0) .
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