The Mobile City, Virtueel Platform and ARCAM are organizing a three day workshop ((14-16 February 2012 at ARCAM) that precedes the international conference Social Cites of Tomorrow (17 Februayi 2012 in Amsterdam).
This international conference brings together key thinkers and doers working in the fields of new media and urbanism. Keynote speakers such as Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko and Dan Hill will speak about the promises and challenges in this newly emerging and highly interdisciplinary field of urban design. Ticket sale has started.

Architects and planners, media makers, community organisers, local governments, local entrepreneurs, housing corporations, researchers, activists, designers and artists are invited to participat. The goal of the workshop is to explore the innovative design and usage of digital media technologies to make our our cities more social. How can these technologies be engaged to help solve four 'real world' urban issues?
Click here for the workshop pragram and the four cases.
Signing up for the workshops is no longer possible.

Check Social cities of tomorrow for the program of the conference. Best practices on show are now selected.

Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, will host a panel discussion on design and trust at ARCAM. It takes place in connection with the conference Social cities of tomorrow.

Coinciding with the discussion will be the launch of Volume magazine’s fourth and last Trust Design supplement. The series has been produced in cooperation with Premsela. The ARCAM discussion and magazine supplement will focus on the private vs the public.

Over pizza and drinks, Premsela's Tim Vermeulen will speak to the researcher and writer Scott Burnham, project manager of Premsela’s Trust Design project; Michiel de Lange, co-founder of the Mobile City and a new media lecturer at Utrecht University; and Henry Mentink, co-founder of MyWheels. Come and listen, participate in the discussion, and enjoy a slice of pizza.
Admission, pizza and drinks are free.

Trust Design is a Premsela research project set up to investigate the relationship between trust and design. How can design respond to the contemporary crisis of confidence? What are the components of trust? Can you design trust? And can you trust design?

Date: Wednesday 15 February
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Location: ARCAM, Prins Hendrikkade 600, Amsterdam
Due to limited seating please RSVP to rsvp@premsela.org.