Speakers

Blogging the City presents a selection of Europe's leading city bloggers. Check back regularly for new speaker updates because we'll be adding plenty of new names to the list in the coming weeks!

Charlie Hilton (Urban Times)

London-based Charlie Hilton is co-founder of Urban Times, a blog that tackles the sensationalism and hearsay that permeates the news and media culture of today.

Zef Hemel (Vrijstaat Amsterdam)

Zef Hemel is head of the urban planning department of the City of Amsterdam, and blogger at Vrijstaat Amsterdam. On his blog Hemel introduces new ideas, concepts and agendas for the City of Amsterdam. In his own remarkable way Zef Hemel has created an unique position for himself outside his post as director.

Antonia Märzhäuser (Freunde von Freunden)

Freunde von Freunden is an international interview magazine that offers a unique view into the lives of the creative class in Berlin and other big cities around the globe. The blog portraits people of diverse backgrounds in their homes or within their daily working environments. In 2011, FvF launched its first book, Freunde von Freunden Berlin.

Martijn de Waal (The Mobile City)

Journalist and researcher Martijn de Waal is one of the founders of The Mobile City, an independent research group that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and the implications for urban design.

Joop de Boer and Jeroen Beekmans (The Pop-Up City)

Jeroen Beekmans & Joop de Boer (The Pop-Up City)

Blogging the City is an initiative of The Pop-Up City. The Pop-Up City is a blog that explores the latest designs, trends and ideas that shape the city of the future.

Filip Visnjic (CreativeApplications)

Belgrade-born and London-based architect and new media technologist Filip Visnjic is the man behind CreativeApplications, a blog that reports innovation and catalogues projects, tools and platforms at the intersection of art, media and technology. The digital city is one of the blog’s common themes.

Stefan Höffken (Urbanophil)

Höffken is one of the founders of the first edition of Blogging the City, that took place in Berlin in May, 2011. On his blog Urbanophil, he writes about architecture, the green city, the digital city, art and culture, urban devopment and politics. He will be highlighting the concept and outcomes of the first Blogging the City conference.

Thomas Marzano (Philips)

Italy-born Thomas Marzano is Creative Director at Philips. Marzano is a design thinker, designer, musician, photographer, speaker, blogger and creative director with a fascination for marketing, social media, innovation and the arts.

Régine Debatty (we-make-money-not-art)

Régine Debatty is blogger, curator and critic based in London and Turin. Her provocatively named and internationally acclaimed blog we-make-money-not-art, which features art, science, culture and society in general, was one of the first in its field.

Wouter Boon (Amsterdam Ad Blog)

Wouter Boon is an advertising strategist, a writer, and co-founder of Amsterdam Ad Blog, a blog about Amsterdam, its people, and the coolest places in the city that is also known as the world’s Advertising Capital.

Mikael Colville-Andersen (Copenhagenize)

Mobility expert Colville-Andersen is Denmark’s bicycle ambassador. His blog Copenhagenize highlights bicycle culture in Copenhagen, and placed the Danish capital on the international map as a prominent green city and bicycle town, and, hence, set the agenda for policy-makers.

Rudolf Klöckner (Urban Shit)

Hamburg-based Rudolf Klöckner is a blogger and designer who focuses on street art, urban interventions and urban culture. His blog Urban Shit is one of the most important blogs on alternative urban development in Germany. Over the last years Urban Shit has become a leading voice in Hamburg and the city’s urban political debate about public space and urban developments.

Luc Harings (ilovenoord)

Harings is creative director at Tabula Rasa. On his blog ilovenoord.nl he collects things and places that make you happy in Amsterdam Noord. In two years the online and offline community grew into the biggest bottom-up initiative of Amsterdam. The blog’s heart-shaped logo is seen everywhere in the North. Luc will talk about the role of new media in making a shift from ‘top-down’ thinking to ‘bottom-up’ thinking when it comes to city-making.

Ernst-Jan Pfauth (Pfauth.com)

Ernst-Jan Pfauth can be considered the crown prince of the Dutch blogosphere. Pfauth is former Head of the Internet department of daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, and author of the book Sex, Blogs and Rock ‘n Roll.