#urbanfutures — Public Fediverse posts

as Europe sets yet more temperature records, worth remembering: heatwaves are a matter of equity & justice, within cities and between world regions. these data stories show who is hit hardest:

Extreme Heat Projections in Cities
https://www.wri.org/insights/future-extreme-heat-cities-data

How do urban heat islands affect our cities and communities?
https://www.sei.org/features/urban-heat-islands-cities-storymap/

Urban Heat Equity
https://www.treeequityscore.org/stories/urban-heat-equity

Here's who lives in your city's worst heat islands
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2022/07/ilots-chaleur-villes-inegalites-injustice-changements-climatiques/en/

#HeatWave #DataVis #UrbanFutures #Climate

This data story by #Tagesspiegel just won a European Digital Publishing Award in data journalism:

https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/wo-berlins-private-pools-stehen-und-was-das-uber-die-stadt-verraet-luftbilder-hitze-wasser-ungleichheit-datenanalyse/

In 2024, @lehmann and I co-taught Mapping Cities – Making Cities to students of #InterfaceDesign and #UrbanFutures and one team asked: is access to a pool a matter of privilege? This question sparked an in-depth investigation that led to a surprising finding…

More about the course: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/mapping/

#DataJournalism #DataVis #Berlin #UrbaneZukunft #FHPotsdam

Open Call für (re)searching urbanity, 19.–21. Juni 2026, Berlin:

"Unter dem Titel „(un)learning urbanity“ lädt das Symposium zu kritischen, interdisziplinären Beiträgen ein, die vermeintlich selbstverständliche urbane Normen, Praktiken und Imaginationen hinterfragen."

Vielfältige Einreichungen (auf Deutsch oder Englisch) aus Forschung, Praxis, Kunst und Aktivismus sind willkommen.

Frist: 22. Feb 2026

Details: https://researching-urbanity.org/language/en/open-call-2026/

#Stadtforschung #UrbaneZukunft #UrbanStudies #UrbanFutures

Just stumbled across https://feministspatialpractices.com – expanding index of feminism in relation to the built environment. The website brings together feminist spatial practices from around the world. Looks really relevant for anyone interested in how feminism reshapes cities and spaces.

It was initiated by Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken as a contribution to the e-flux exhibition Chronograms of Architecture:
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/chronograms

#FeministSpatialPractices #feminism #urbanism #mapping #UrbanFutures

(3) Algorithmic accountability must become public infrastructure, just like water or electricity — essential for trust in #UrbanAI.

#AI #UrbanFutures #TerritorialInnovation #HumanAIGovernance #DigitalInclusion #InnovationSystems #SocialInnovation #SupercomputingPower

(2) Inspired by Richard Nelson’s classic “ #MoonAndTheGhetto” paradox, we ask:

Can #UrbanAI bridge the gap between innovation & inequality?

#AI #UrbanFutures #TerritorialInnovation #HumanAIGovernance #DigitalInclusion #InnovationSystems #SocialInnovation #SupercomputingPower

Towards the end of his life, Warren Magnusson implored us to imagine radical democratic engagement "premised on the 'open city' rather than the closed nation".

Would that we'd heed that profoundly wise insight.

#UrbanFutures #CitiesForPeople #RightToTheCity #WarrenMagnusson

https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/warren-magnusson-festschrift

AI-powered assistive technologies are changing how we experience and imagine public space
#Tech #AI #AssistiveTech #UrbanFutures #DisabilityJustice #SmartCities #WearableTech #DigitalInclusion #Accessibility #TechEthics #DataJustice #InclusiveDesign
https://the-14.com/ai-powered-assistive-technologies-are-changing-how-we-experience-and-imagine-public-space/

// 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

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

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

on my way to #CityVis symposium »Beyond the Smart City – Reflections on the digital City« starting in 1h in Potsdam. With three speakers:

- Lara Stöhlmacher http://fem-arc.net
- Omar Ferwati #ForensicArchitecture
- Marek Tuszynski @info_activism

Details & zoom link:
https://www.cityvis.io/exhibitions/2022/symposium_en/

#datavis #urbanfutures

this Thursday the #cityvis exhibition opens with a symposium featuring three stellar speakers and the announcement of the winners of the competition:

https://www.cityvis.io/exhibitions/2022/symposium_en/

3 Nov, 6pm at the Wissenschaftsetage in Potsdam

#urbanfutures #datavis

#introduction: Hi all, i'm a research professor at #FHPotsdam, where i work with wonderful colleagues on #datavis projects and have the privilege to teach (and most often learn with) talented students of #interfacedesign and #urbanfutures.

🎓🏙🌳 Do you want to study the future of cities?

Applications to our transdisciplinary Master program on #urbanfutures are due in 3 days:

http://urbane-zukunft.de