Playable Cities: An Introduction

Birdsall, Carolyn, Linda Kopitz, and Alex Gekker

Linda Kopitz

Linda Kopitz connects her professional experience as a Creative Director with her interdisciplinary academic work to explore the role of technology in everyday meaning-making. She is currently working as a Lecturer in Cross-Media Culture in the Netherlands, where her main research interest lies in the intersection of media and space as a negotiation of the past, present and future. Bringing together her academic and editorial work, she is also an assistant editor for the European Journal of Cultural Studies and member of the steering committee of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Since 2026, she is one of the co-managing editors of Mediapolis, together with Adam Ochonicky and Cortland Rankin.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 10November 10, 2025<November 12, 2025

Playable Cities: An Introduction

Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker

The city is a playground. But is it really? This introduction to the Playable Cities dossier discusses how cities are built, how cities are navigated, and how cities are resisted with and through play.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 6, 2023<July 3, 2026

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.