Sensing Nature: Green Databases and Maintenance as/of Care

Kopitz, Linda

Linda Kopitz

Linda Kopitz has studied at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Miami, USA, and holds a Research Masters in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her PhD research – situated between urban studies and media studies – explores the entanglement between real and virtual environments in sustainable architecture. Connecting her professional experience as a Creative Director with her interdisciplinary academic work, she is currently working as a Lecturer in Cross-Media Culture at the University of Amsterdam, where her main research interests are architectural media, gender and the intersection between technology and imaginations of the everyday.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 6, 2023<June 8, 2023

Sensing Nature: Green Databases and Maintenance as/of Care

Linda Kopitz

Linda Kopitz traces how the vision for Amsterdam’s sustainable future has been digitally mapped by “green” databases in ways that construct ideas of maintenance as care, and care as maintenance. Yet such mediations of urban nature risk fragmenting sustainable practices in the present.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 9, 2023

Caring Cities: An Introduction

Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow

In their introduction to the Caring Cities dossier, Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow consider how care intersects with the urban, and how care might be “designed," through the lenses of technology, politics, and the senses.