Creative Urban Technologies: Exploring and Navigating the Smart and Social City (2026/2027: Periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

After successful completion of the course, the student has:
  • Develop an understanding of key issues at the nexus of digital media and urban culture.
  • Become acquainted with critical debates about creative cities, as well as a range of affirmative emergent perspectives on critical creative practices.
  • Become familiarized with a hands-on and practice-based ‘critical making’ approach to address these issues through the design of and reflection on a concrete project.

After successful completion of the course the student is able:
  • Identify standpoints in the debates about creative technologies and urban culture.
  • Articulate their own position in these interdisciplinary debates.
  • Develop their own practice-based research-by-design project that addresses one of these debates.
  • Present their ideas and concepts in written and oral form, during a presentation and in a research report.

Vakinhoudelijk

The course discusses current developments in creative city making, like urban games, urban screens and data, maker culture, and media art. These so-called urban media technologies and practices shape contemporary public space, allowing new roles for its citizens and visitors, create novel forms of urban agency, and invite alternative ways of experiencing the city.

As part of the minor Creative Cities the course explores the entanglements between ICTs and the creative city by focussing on emerging themes and methods, including:
  • Urban Interfaces & Data: Citizen sensing, navigating, and authoring the city with location-based technologies and interactive cartography, quantified self, life-logging and mobile story-telling.
  • City & Play: Reprogramming the city with urban play and ludic engagements/encounters in the city.
  • Citizenship: Leveraging the creative potential of cities through participatory culture, co-creation, and open data.
    Critical Making: Prototyping creative critiques of the smart city with alternative city-making and do-it-yourself approaches with the help of new media technologies and media art.
  • Research-by-design: Using practice-based prototyping methods to address urban issues and phenomena.
This course is part of the minor Creative Cities.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.

body { font-size: 9pt;As part of the minor Creative Cities the course explores the entanglements between ICTs and the creative city by focussing on the weekly themes, including:
- Smart and creative cities?: Addressing complex urban problems with digital technologies in today’s smart and social cities.
- Citizenship: Leveraging the creative potential of cities through participatory culture, co-creation, mobile apps and open data.
- Media art: Creative critique on the smart city with locative media, digital art and urban screens.
- Data, interfaces and code: Citizen sensing and navigating and authoring the city with location-based technologies and interactive cartography, quantified self, life-logging and mobile story-telling.
- Play and games: Reprogramming the city with urban games and play.
- Maker culture: City-making and do-it-yourself hacker culture with the help of new media technologies.

This course is the first course in the minor Creative Cities.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.

Aanvullende informatie

This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you
- are a student in the BA Liberal Arts and Sciences or Taal- en Cultuurstudies and this course is part of your specialisation (kernpakket)
- are enrolled in the Creative Cities minor
- are an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements
In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.


Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.

Werkvormen

Werkcollege
Toelichting

The program comprises weekly 4h working group sessions (team presentations; plenary discussion of literature; presentations of research, etc.). In addition, students are required to undertake a short field research.

Bijdrage

Active participation during meetings; peer review feedback; productive and cooperative attitude during course.

Voorbereiding

Reading mandatory literature, preparing written assignments; collaborating in teams; preparing a research proposal for final paper.

Toetsing

Opdracht(en) 1

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 60% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 4,5

The student's ability to deploy academic skills in written and oral presentations, individually and as part of a group. Particular attention is given to students’ capacity to oversee current issues, practices, debates, and academic research about smart and social cities; critically reflect on this; and - under supervision - develop an appropriate approach for doing research.

TBA

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

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Voorkennis

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Voertalen

  • Engels

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Verplicht materiaal

  • WNB
    Digitally available via the university library and will be made available online via Brightspace

Aanbevolen materiaal

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Coördinator

dr. D. Gauthier d.gauthier@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. D. Gauthier d.gauthier@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 8 juni 2026 tot en met vrijdag 26 juni 2026

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