🌿 Urban ReLeaf’s Scenario Spotlights – 3 free online events on planning greener cities!
🎙 Practice, research & public sector insights.

🗓 June 25 → https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scenario-spotlight-insights-from-practice-tickets-1377122523539?aff=oddtdtcreator
🗓 July 2 → https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scenario-spotlight-insights-from-research-tickets-1381969300379?aff=oddtdtcreator
🗓 July 9 → https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scenario-spotlight-insights-from-public-sector-tickets-1381989179839?aff=oddtdtcreator

Explore tools, data & citizen-led futures.

#ScenarioPlanning #GreenTransition #UrbanFutures #CitiObs

// NIKOLAJ SVEISTRUP

Nikolaj Sveistrup – Head of Urban Futures, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies – designs regenerative futures rooted in place, culture, and balance with planetary boundaries. 🌱

At Waterkant 2025, he explores how evolving our ways of living can help shape resilient and just environments. 🚀

Tickets: https://www.waterkant.sh/festival?utm_source=mastodon&utm_id=WK25

#waterkant25 #futurethinking #urbanfutures #evolve #regeneration

2-year professorship in »Information Visualization & Management« (Oct 2025–Sep 2027, W2) at #FHPotsdam with focus on data visualization, urban complexity & interdisciplinary research.

This is my parental leave replacement - feel free to reach out to me or @boris if you have any questions.

Applications already due on 9 May!

Job ad: https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/a595f8ac675dc069c3de5b1020f38f70cb6897a30?ref=homepage
(this is in German, but teaching can be in English!)

#AcademicJobs #DataVis #DataViz #InterfaceDesign #UrbaneZukunft #UrbanFutures

In Hamburg wird zum 1. April 2025 ein DFG Graduiertenkolleg (research training group) zu "Urban future-making" mit 12 Promotionsstellen (E13, 100%, 3 Jahre) gestartet. Die Ausschreibung öffnet diesen Juli und Bewerbungsfrist wird der 9. September 2024 sein:

https://urban-future-making.hcu-hamburg.de/

#Jobs #AcademicJobs #UrbanFutures #UrbaneZukunft #Zukunftsforschung #Hamburg

@ranjodh

About the call:

Cities brim over with #speculation. Urban futures are conceived, dreamt of and calculated through a wide variety of speculative practices. Where finance has long speculated on cities, and the #city has served as a playground for sociological thought and more recently #datascience, the city has also become a test bed in the register of #smartcities and #platformurbanism. At the same time, the actors involved in urban speculation have expanded, from urban planners to data scientists and smart city consultants to #BigTech. Through tests and experiments, #technology is deployed to speculate on cultural, social and economic life in the city, and thus puts a claim on cities’ technoscientific futures. How has Big Tech normalized and monopolized speculations on #urbanfutures? What do these futures (potentially) look like? How do urbanites interfere in these mostly black-boxed prophecies and business models? And how are anti-speculations / speculative otherwises performed?

New blogpost: Robo-taxis,auto-mobility, and the right to the city https://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2023/12/08/robo-taxisauto-mobility-and-the-right-to-the-city/ #mobility #SelfDrivingCars #TheRightToTheCity #UrbanFutures

📢 Save the Date: DLGS Winter School - Dec 15th, 2023! More details and call for abstracts coming soon! #Sustainability #spatial #urbanfutures #Digital #transformation
@tudresden

RT RSA Europe
Did you miss any of the @EU_ScienceHub '#Future of #Cities' webinar series?
All available to watch on demand via @RSAEurope dedicated webpage.
💻http://bit.ly/JRCRSA2023
#UrbanFutures #EUcities #Digital #Innovation https://t.co/vtvVdSWvpo

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RSAEurope/status/1673330972291416076

To ask »“what if?,” diagrams offer a platform for the exploration of the spatial, social, and political implications of an initial hypothesis, and for organization and contradictions to play out.«

Christoph Lueder uses diagrams to make sense of 2 utopian imaginations that are almost five centuries apart:

Lueder, C. (2013). Diagram Utopias: Rota and Network as Instrument and Mirror of Utopia and Agronica. Journal of Architectural Education, 67(2):224–233.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/10464883.2013.817165

#UrbanFutures

Yesterday @tomduscher and his MA students of #InformationDesign at #MuthesiusKH visited us at #FHPotsdam. We had a pleasant exchange on designing, researching and prototyping interactive #DataVis projects - especially in the context of #SciComm, #UrbanFutures and #CulturalHeritage.

Thank you for the visit!

while many car commercials appeal to individual freedom, this commercial by Swedish public transit firm Västtrafik uses a physicalization of CO2 emissions to appeal to the merit of traveling together:
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/forsman-and-bodenfors-vasttrafik-together-for-reduced-emissions-advertising-240123

… of course this is a reference to the 1991 photo by the city of Münster

#MobilityTransition #VerkehrsWende #AutoKorrektur #DataVis #UrbanFutures

I’d never spent so much of my spare time on exploring a social media platform until Mastodon. It’s absolutely worthwhile to take some time to get into this real community-like platform and connect to different communities.
P.S. Is there a circle of academics who self-define as #urbanists? We really need a group like this #cities #urbanism #digitalisation #smartcities #urbaninnovation #urbanfutures #urbanstudies #urbangeography #digitalsociety #citizens #citizenscience

"The invention of the city as a place of experimental gatherings—despite impediments and without guarantees of progress—amplifies the South’s enduring contribution to urban knowledge and life. Across streets both nurturing and brutal, events can easily switch and undermine the best laid plans and intentions. Yet the possibility remains for residents to turn to each other, rather than on each other, for new ideas and solidarities."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/improvising-urban-futures/

#UrbanFutures #CitiesForPeople

there are instances related to visualization, HCI & digital humanities on the #fediverse, but what about folks into #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #Cycling #WalkableCities #UrbanPlanning #UrbanFutures you ask?

there seems to be a friendly place just for you, too: https://urbanists.social

GOVERNANCE + URBANISM. I just learned about this guide by Suzanne Potjer, a political scientist doing futures work at the Utrecht University. It's about conducting urban experiments and mainstreaming innovations from a design perspective, often under the auspices of an "urban lab" or "living lab" (design studio transplanted into the governmental space). Some fun cases.

PDF version: https://www.uu.nl/sites/default/files/experimental_governance-urban_futures_studio-en-web.pdf

#UrbanFutures #urbanism #PolicyExperiments #governance #design #LivingLabs #UrbanLabs

Adding more hashtags, let's find each other 👋
#speculativedesign
#futuresthinking
#systemsthinking
#solarpunk
#TransitionMovement
#sdgs
#sdg11
#womensrights
#MoreThanHuman
#SustainableCities
#UrbanFutures
#ClimateJustice
#climatedisaster
#SocialJustice
#housingforall
#universalbasicservices
#climateishealth
#biodiversity
#DesignJusticeNetwork

With his talk »the city is a witness« Omar Ferwati shares a range of impressive investigations by #ForensicArchitecture and how different forms of civic evidence can be gathered and mounted to counter unlawful killings, human rights violations, illegal mining… Omar mentioned the image complex as a key method to integrate and cross-reference multiple sources:
https://forensic-architecture.org/methodology/image-data-complex

#cityvis #datavis #urbanfutures

first up Lara Stöhlmacher shares a range of feminist projects in the space of participatory architecture. the talk is titled »MESS« - since the complicated allows for multiple stories to emerge… lots to digest - what i found particularly intriguing was a project on gossip as a form of resistance and care. http://fem-arc.net

#cityvis #datavis #urbanfutures