Civic Urban AI: Fostering Transformative Pedagogies for Human-Urban-AI Entanglements

Hespanhol, Luke, Michiel de Lange and Nanna Verhoeff

Nanna Verhoeff

Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures & Society at Utrecht University. She specializes in developing concepts and methods for the analysis of performative technologies and situated arts and media. She is co-lead of the [urban interfaces] research platform and the Creative Humanities Academy in Utrecht. She published a trilogy on screen cultures - Urban Screens: Situations, Practices, Concepts (2025), Mobile Screens: The Visual Regime of Navigation (2012) and The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (2006) with Amsterdam University Press. With Iris van der Tuin, she published Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities (2022) with Roman & Littlefield.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 11September 7, 2026<September 9, 2026

Civic Urban AI: Fostering Transformative Pedagogies for Human-Urban-AI Entanglements

Luke Hespanhol, Michiel de Lange and Nanna Verhoeff

Decided, datafied without consent, and left out of debate: Luke Hespanhol, Michiel de Lange and Nanna Verhoeff identify a "triple actionability gap" in urban AI, and propose Civic Urban AI as a pedagogical counter-narrative.

Dossiers, no. 4, vol. 8November 13, 2023<May 21, 2024

Introduction: Creative Urban Methods — Generative and Situated Practices for Researching the City

Sigrid Merx, Coco Kanters, Michiel de Lange and Nanna Verhoeff

In their introduction to the Creative Urban Methods dossier, Sigrid Merx, Coco Kanters, Michiel de Lange, and Nanna Verhoeff advocate for revisiting "situated knowledges" and adopting creative approaches for studying the multifaceted nature of contemporary urban life and culture.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 17, 2020<November 14, 2023

Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities

Nanna Verhoeff and Sigrid Merx

Nanna Verhoeff and Sigrid Merx examine scenographic figurations of urban space in the physically distanced city to help us understand how protests and the pandemic have provoked questions and answers about how and for what public space can be used and by whom.