The Urbane Potential of Public Screens for Interaction

Mirjam Struppek

Mirjam Struppek works as urbanist, researcher and consultant in Berlin. She has lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Since 2002 she is developing the online-information-plattform interactionfield.de. In collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and Department of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam she recently prepared and curated the international conference Urban Screens 05 in Amsterdam. She is holding a degree with distinction in Urban- and Environmental Planning from University of Kaiserslautern and has spent during her studies two research semester at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan.