Martijn de Waal

What, where and when On August 16-17 2010 The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform organized ‘Designing the Hybrid City’. This event explored the role of digital technologies in urban design. It took place in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai. Our event was part of a cluster of events called Adaptation: Designing the Future City that took [...]

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I am one of the organizers of the Mediafonds@Sandberg Masterclass that couples new media designers with traditional media directors to experiment with innovative ways of storytelling. For the 2010 edition we are focussing on ‘Datavisualization’, and Database Culture in a more general way and what this might mean for the documentary format. The Program consists [...]

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Press Now invited me again to host a Masterclass Digital Media and Journalism at the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. Goal of the workshop: to share with CI students and staff knowledge and visions on developments in New Media and Journalism. The workshop will address three important themes. • Distribution and context of journalistic ‘content’ [...]

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At the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) The Mobile City (an organization I co-founded with Michiel de Lange) organized a number of events between November 5th and 12th 2009, including a keynote, workshop and exhibition with the American artist, architect and researcher Mark Shepard. The events are part of the ‘Connectivity’ theme of the IABR [...]

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It is a great honor for me to spend a few months (March – until the end of June 2009) as a ‘visiting scholar’ at MITs Comparative Media Studies and the Center for Future Civic Media. During my stay in Cambridge I would like to spend my time on the following projects: • First, I [...]

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Sitfo@Sandberg is a yearly Masterclass in which traditional media makers (film, drama, documentary) are coupled with new media designers to experiment with new media formats. The Masterclass starts of with a large public seminar (this year we had a.o. Bruce Sterling and Julian Bleecker as speakers). In the following 3 months, participants follow a series [...]

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The Dutch NGO Press Now asked me to set up a two day masterclass on New Media and Journalism for the students and staff at the Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. The goal was to introduce the students of the journalism program with the most important themes in journalism and new media, and to [...]

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The Mobile City is a conference on Urban Culture, Locative and Mobile Media. I am co-organizing this conference with Michiel de Lange and the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. Keynote speakers are Stephen Graham, Tim Cresswell, Christian Nold and Malcolm McCullough. The conference brings together academics, urban professionals and media designers to answer the question: [...]

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For the second Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen and Hong Kong I worked together with Dutch graphic Designers Leon & Loes on a project called ‘Greetings from Pendrecht – The City as Interface’ The exhibit is the result of a research project on the process of ‘space-making’ in the Rotterdam Neighborhood Pendrecht. Virtual [...]

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Together with Femke Wolting, who is a director at Submarine, I was invited to curate and host a session on Virtual Worlds, for the HotSpot network of mediaprofessionals working at or with Public Broadcasting in The Netherlands. We invited three very interesting speakers: Tim Guest, the author of Second Lives; Chris Carella, who works as [...]

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Hot Spot is an informal network of staff members and free lancers connected to Dutch Public Broadcasting. The goal of this network is to exchange ideas, get inspiration and stay up to date with the latest developments in the media landscape. Hot Spot regularly organizes get togethers based on a particular theme. The project was [...]

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Together with V2 and the International Institute for Asian Studies I organized a symposium on media culture in China. Whereas many discussions on media in China focus on censorship, we wanted to address developments in new media from the other side: what can be and is done in China? What new possibilities do digital media [...]

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De Nieuwe Reporter is a professional group weblog on journalism, technology, and the public sphere. I started this weblog in mid 2006 together with Frank van Vree and Theo van Stegeren, two colleagues at the department of Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. Since then it has grown into one of the top journalism blogs [...]

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In the fall of 2003, Chris Bajema and I travelled along the big cities of china’s east coast, reporting weekly for the Dutch Daily NPR-program De Ochtenden, and daily on our weblog. We made radio documentaries about free speech and talk radio in Hong Kong, migrants in Shenzhen, Chinese style tourism in Xiamen, we visited [...]

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