MAB20 - # FUTURES IMPLIED

Theme: #Futures Implied

Originally, media architecture was most concerned with the integration of displays and interactive installations into architectural structures, such as media facades and urban screens. Over the years, the discipline has grown much broader, as new technologies such as digital platforms and smart city technologies have increasingly made their way into the experience, management and design of cities.

None of these technologies brought into the city are neutral enablers, mere decorative structures or just simple market places connecting demand and supply in fields as diverse as energy and transport to commerce and leisure. They are built upon numerous spoken and unspoken assumptions about urban life, each with their own implications for both social relations as well as their effect on the natural ecosystem.It is time therefore for the discipline of media architecture to address the implied futures of new technologies.

MAB20 calls for media architectures that move beyond the mere spectacular; as well as beyond the design of individualized services comforting human customers. MAB20 calls for media architectures and urban interaction that dare to take on a more-than-human approach: aiming at the well-being of the natural ecosystem as a whole; For urban media art and design that bring implicit and explicit bias within technology and culture to light, and provide the means for ongoing discussion, debate, and societal change; For digital platforms that strengthen citizen’s digital rights in democratic societies

Calls

Below you will find an overview of our most current calls. For an overview of all calls, as well as an overview of important dates, see our Calls-page.

Call for Workshop Proposals

Call for workshop proposals, open until February 21, 2020.

Call for Papers

Call for papers, open until April 5, 2020.

Call for Universities and Educational Programs: Student Exhibition

Call for Universities and Educational Programs: Student Exhibition, open until March 1, 2020.

Call for Participation Demos & Posters Exhibition

Call for Participation Demos and Posters Exhibition, opens April 1st, 2020.

Call for Participation Student Exhibition

Call for participation student exhibition, opens April 1st, 2020.

Closed

Call for Proposals Amsterdam Light Festival

This call closed January 20th 2020

Meetups & Events • Sep 2019 – Oct 2020

March 16-17 2020 Pressure Cooker Workshop: Designing More-Than-Human Cities

Invitation for the pressure cooker workshop Designing More-Than-Human Cities!

Date: 16 – 17 March 2020
Time: 10:00 – 18:00
Location: MCW Lab, Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht

Feb 11, 25, and March 10 2020 The [urban interfaces] seminar Urban Ecologies

Invitation to attend the upcoming seminar on urban ecologies on February 11 and 25, and March 10, 2020.

Jan 30 2020 Meet-up on Playful Cities: Dramaturgies for Active Public Spaces

Amsterdam, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Workspace
30 January 2020 20:00
Sign-up here: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/dramaturgies-for-active-public-spaces

Jan 23-26 2020 Winter School Promises Promises: Tech Reality-Check

In January 2020, MAB is organizing a Winter School with Archis/VOLUME & Stephan Petermann/MANN in collaboration with Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; Master Digital Design Sandberg Instituut, Akademie voor Bouwkunst, Design Centre Amsterdam, and Amsterdam Creative Industries Network

It’s a four-day research workshop with the ambition to do a reality-check of the intersection of technology, architecture and urban planning, using AMO and Volume research methods.

For more info and to sing-up, see here

Oct 30, 2019 Mini-Symposium & Launch Urban Interfaces Special Issue Leonardo Electronic Almanac

The Urban Interfaces group at Utrecht University (co-organizer of MAB20), Impakt and Leonardo invite you for a mini-symposium celebarting the…

Oct 10 2019 MAB & MDD Meetup with Peter Dalsgaard: Media Architecture for Community Building

The Master Digital Design and the Media Architecture Biennale 2020 are thrilled to host Peter Dalsgaard for an meetup about…

Oct 3-4 DSS/ Trust in Play Urban Play Camp

Join us on 3-4 October, 9.30-17.30 at the Urban Play Design Camp, organized with the AUAS Digital Society School and…

July 2 2019 MAB & MDD Meetup with Filippo Lodi (UNStudio): From Architecture to Sensorial Experience Design

Filippo Lodi is Head of Innovation and Knowledge Management at UNStudio, an architecture firm at the forefront of developments concerning…

March 7 2019 MAB & MDD Meetup with Jason Bruges: Art, Architecture & Design

We are excited to host Jason Bruges at our next meetup – a partnership between the Master Digital Design with the Media Architecture Biennale 2020.

Program MAB 20 • 23-27 November 2020

The Biennale focuses on media artists and designers from across a range of disciplines (interaction design, urban design, public spaces, architecture and digital design), as well as on researchers and parties from business and governments involved in the development of public spaces. The MAB 2020 programme is anticipated to attract around 250 international professional visitors.