Urban technologies at Philosophy of the City conference 2018

The programme of this year's Philosophy of the City conference has been uploaded to Academia.eu. The meeting will take place in Bogota (October 11-13, 2018). Besides my own presentation on "Elevators as urban technologies," there will be a couple of talks zooming in on the role of technology in the city, including:

• Don't drink the water: biocities, biocitizens and Flint's water crisis / Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts, Lowell & The Hastings Center
• Moving through real and virtual urban spaces / Rebecca Kukla, Georgetown University and Eli Kukla, Georg Washington University
• Right to the city: the public transportation justice / Vladan Klement, Masaryk University
• Love Sex Technology City / John Kaiser Ortiz, Millersburg University

Given my own teaching in engineering programmes at the University of Twente, I am particularly thrilled about the following workshop:

• Creating Serving Learning Courses for Philosophy of the City: Lessons from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas / Shane Epting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Of course, I am also excited about catching up with the other people in the PotC community and about my very first visit to Bogotá!