| Dear BOLD Cities affiliate, |
We wish you a happy new year and all the best for 2023 - let it be full of impactful, engaging and interdisciplinary collaboration, whether that be in research, education or public engagement.
In this newsletter, we would like to update you on relevant activities of the last couple of months - from an award won for multidisciplinary research to a collaboration with the HvA, from a podcast on designing AI to a blog written by one of our minor students. Furthermore, you can get an insight into the research of two of our affiliated researchers as well as upcoming events and calls of papers or grants that might be interesting for you.
Do you have a recommendation for an interesting event or relevant publication coming up? Please feel free to share it with us.
Warm regards from the Centre for BOLD Cities
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| BOLD Cities researcher Maedeh Nasri wins the Wild Card award by the Institute of Psychology (Leiden University) for the best multidisciplinary publication |
Maedeh Nasri, PhD Candidate at Leiden University, won the award for the article ‘A Novel data-driven Approach to Examine Children’s Movements and Social Behavior in Schoolyard Environments.’, one of the outcomes of the BOLD Cities’ Team Science project ‘Breaking the Cycle'. Read more about the article.
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| Vivien Butot publishes article in Science, Technology & Human Values (ST&HV) |
The paper 'Contesting Infrastructural Futures: 5G Opposition as a Technological Drama' looks at the public contestation of 5G networks in the Netherlands. The paper demonstrates how the technological drama of 5G is constituted by tensions between different interpretations of these publicly performed meanings. This article is part of Butot's PhD project on citizen's perspectives in the smart city. Read more about the article.
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| New graduation project BOLD Cities x Amsterdam University of Applied Science on Digital Citizenship |
Five public administration students from Amsterdam University of Applied Science (HvA) will work in co-creation with MBO-students on the development of a part of the curriculum on digital citizenship. This graduation project is supervised by the Centre for BOLD Cities and Dorien Zandbergen (HvA). Read more.
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| Whose right to the smart city? A blog by minor student Achraf Taouil |
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As part of Module 2 ‘Citizens and everyday experiences with the smart city’ of our Minor Smart and SHARED Cities, our students went on a walking tour with artist Angeliki Diakrousi to ‘hunt’ Mosquito alarms. Achraf Taouil, one of our students, shares his experiences of the tour. Read the blog.
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BOLD-affiliated researchers prof. dr. Alessandro Bozzon and Kars Alfrink joined a bonus episode by Delft Design Stories to talk about designing AI. Together with dr. Maria Luce Lupetti, they discussed the needs and challenges of designing AI, the role of the designer in its development and how the design practice itself can change through the relationship with AI. Hosted by Eric Gu.
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| In the Spotlight |
Our researchers are working on all sorts of question relating to digitalisation, data and datafication in the 'smart' city - with the citizen and government perspective in mind. In our 'In the Spotlight' - series, we introduce them and their research to you. Would you like to recommend someone to be featured on our website? Please feel free to contact us.
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| Margot Kersing |
Margot Kersing's PhD research is about Big Data in the social domain; a qualitative ethnographic study commissioned by the Centre for BOLD Cities and Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM). In our interview, Margot shares why they are so interested in researching street-level bureaucrats, and reflects on the disconnect between the 'system world' and the 'real life world' and the impact they want to have with their research.
More about Margot.
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| Dr. Catharine Oertel |
Dr. Catharine Oertel is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science at TU Delft. Catharine is part of the Centre for BOLD Cities Team Science project on Urban Dialogues, in which the team combines citizen science with value-based conversational AI. In our interview, she shares why decoding human communication is vital for designing conversational AI and the importance of doing research 'in real life'.
More about Catharine.
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Towards Healthy Societies: From resilient governance to digital health solutions,
19 January, 12.15 - 17.00, Erasmus Pavilion (Campus Woudestein)
BOLD Cities' affiliated researchers prof. dr. Alessandro Bozzon and dr. Achilleas Psyllidis will talk about digital health solutions. Bozzon's keynote focusses on AI systems that work in and for a healthy society, and Psyllidis will deliver a flash pitch about evidence-informed metrics, indicators, and benchmarks for healthy cities. Register here.
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Smart and SHARED Cities symposium
25 January, 12.00 - 18.00, Maaslounge (HAL4 aan de Maas)
During this symposium, our students from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor Smart and SHARED Cities will present the results of the fifth and finale module to their project commissioner and you are invited to join. The projects address various aspects of creating a smart and SHARED city: from sustainability to new urban technology to challenges and opportunities around governance and politics in the 'smart city'. Sign up here.
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Erasmus Alumni Talk on Smart Cities
25 January, 19.00- 22.30, BIRD Rotterdam
Strategic director of the Centre for BOLD Cities, dr. Jiska Engelbert, will join Frank Vieveen (Program Manager Smart City & Digital Economy, City of Rotterdam) and Cor Rademaker (CEO Strateq) in a panel discussion on smart cities, organised by the Erasmus Alumni Club. More info and sign-up.
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KNAW Early Career Partnership | grant to organise an interdisciplinary meeting
This grant gives the possibility for Postdoc researchers, who have obtained their PhD no more than 7 years previously, to organize an interdisciplinary meeting. It is possible to apply for grants up to EUR 10.000. The deadline for submission is on the 31st of January. Please find more information on the opportunity via this link.
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Call for papers for Special Issue: Data-Driven Public Health and Urban Sustainability
In this special issue by the International Journal of Digital Earth, the editors hope to promote communication and collaboration among scholars from multiple disciplines using novel methodologies, including data science and AI, to study data from a large variety of socio-cultural, public health and environmental factors in order to inform public health management, urban planning, and urban sustainability management themes. More info.
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The Centre for BOLD Cities conveys the socially responsible use of data and digital technologies for, by and with citizens and civil servants in the urban environment. The SHARED mission is carried out through multidisciplinary research, education and valorisation.
If you have an interesting publication or upcoming event related to the themes of our centre, please get in touch with us via info@boldcities.nl.
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