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Ownership in the Hybrid City

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— Ownership in the Hybrid city explores the concept of ownership as a design approach for the contemporary city. This study was commissioned by Virtueel Platform and written by Michiel de Lange and Martijn de Waal from The Mobile City.

This study explores the concept of ownership as a design approach for the contemporary city. Digital media technologies are becoming increasingly influential in daily urban life.

How can we implement these technologies in such a way that they make and maintain the city as a liveable and vibrant environment? How can we best design urban areas where citizens feel at home, feel empowered to engage with shared issues and interests, and feel a sense of ‘ownership’ in these issues? In what ways can the e-culture sector contribute to bolstering a sense of ownership in urban society?

Virtueel Platform is the sector body for e-culture in the Netherlands. It commissioned mobile media and urban design experts Michiel de Lange and Martijn de Waal from The Mobile City to conduct research into this field. Virtueel Platform’s goal is to create a theoretical framework for a wide range of projects and developments in Dutch cities, concentrating primarily on work by artists or researchers in the area of digital culture.

Virtueel Platform is the sector body for e-culture in the Netherlands. It commissioned mobile media and urban design experts Michiel de Lange and Martijn de Waal from The Mobile City to conduct research into this field. Virtueel Platform’s goal is to create a theoretical framework for a wide range of projects and developments in Dutch cities, concentrating primarily on work by artists or researchers in the area of digital culture.

The results of the study are published here along with a selection of projects from the Netherlands and abroad that serve as practical examples.

Virtueel Platform will continue to develop the theme of ownership. In may 2011 Virtueel Platform organised the Stad_Spel_Data experts meeting. It focused on the question of how new media and the rapidly expanding availability of data in the city can stimulate city dwellers to become more involved in their immediate living environment, and it was in this context that The Mobile City presented the first results of its research. The first edition of the Ownership book (in Dutch) was presented in september 2011 during the event Future Cities: designing for ownership at PICNIC.

On 17 February 2012 Virtueel Platform and the Mobile City organised the international conference Social Cities of Tomorrow.

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