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17 jul 2025, A Place For Study: A Station For Resources
Station for Resources #03: In the Wake of the Lost Hangout
A Station for Resources #03: In the Wake of the Lost Hangout
Recycle Resource Station/Grondstoffenstation, Afrikaanderplein 1
What is identified as noise, and for whom? How does its regulation affect access to public life? The Mosquito device, whose high-pitched tone predominantly affects people under 25, has been installed around the city by the Rotterdam municipality and various individuals or corporations. Its aim is to deter young people from loitering and making noise in public space as a response to complaints of disturbed residents who feel deprived of sleep and quietude in their homes.
Artist and architect Angeliki Diakrousi is inviting you to gather and hang-out at the Grondstoffenstation for a dialogue on the techno-utopias and smart city imaginaries envisioned in Rotterdam. Starting from the case of the Mosquito installations, we will share our thoughts and experiences and imagine further what a technological collective future could look like in a socially meaningful way. She will present her video work 'In the Wake of the Lost Hangout' that questions how technological applications contribute to the displacement of people and to the re-writing of ways of inhabiting. The video (created in collaboration with Geo Barcan) is exhibited at Brutus at the Wild Summer of Art, opening on 11 July brutus.nl. The work is made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam.
In addition, lecturer and researcher Shivano Raghoenathsingh will introduce us to his research on the ‘policing insect’ and its impact on the sense of belonging amongst Rotterdam’s youth.
Angeliki Diakrousi is an artist-designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work examines spatial politics around architecture and technology and she is involved in collective research on imagining computational infrastructures otherwise. She is a former member of Varia (vvvvvvaria.org, has taught at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and has done research for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest in Brussels. In 2022-2023 she presented her work 'Hunting Mosquitos' at TENT Rotterdam in the group exhibition 'There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to' curated by Linnea Semmerling. The project was realised with support from the Creative Industries Fund NL. More info: w-i-t-m.net
Shivano Raghoenathsingh is a lecturer in the Bachelor's program of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University. He has conducted research for the University of Amsterdam, De Volkskrant, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Erasmus University, focusing on themes such as gentrification, urban allochtone youth, postcolonial studies, plural policing, racialization, and migration.
a dialogue on techno-utopias and smart city imaginaries
By Angeliki Diakrousi and Shivano Raghoenathsingh.Recycle Resource Station/Grondstoffenstation, Afrikaanderplein 1
What is identified as noise, and for whom? How does its regulation affect access to public life? The Mosquito device, whose high-pitched tone predominantly affects people under 25, has been installed around the city by the Rotterdam municipality and various individuals or corporations. Its aim is to deter young people from loitering and making noise in public space as a response to complaints of disturbed residents who feel deprived of sleep and quietude in their homes.
Artist and architect Angeliki Diakrousi is inviting you to gather and hang-out at the Grondstoffenstation for a dialogue on the techno-utopias and smart city imaginaries envisioned in Rotterdam. Starting from the case of the Mosquito installations, we will share our thoughts and experiences and imagine further what a technological collective future could look like in a socially meaningful way. She will present her video work 'In the Wake of the Lost Hangout' that questions how technological applications contribute to the displacement of people and to the re-writing of ways of inhabiting. The video (created in collaboration with Geo Barcan) is exhibited at Brutus at the Wild Summer of Art, opening on 11 July brutus.nl. The work is made possible by a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam.
In addition, lecturer and researcher Shivano Raghoenathsingh will introduce us to his research on the ‘policing insect’ and its impact on the sense of belonging amongst Rotterdam’s youth.
Angeliki Diakrousi is an artist-designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work examines spatial politics around architecture and technology and she is involved in collective research on imagining computational infrastructures otherwise. She is a former member of Varia (vvvvvvaria.org, has taught at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and has done research for The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest in Brussels. In 2022-2023 she presented her work 'Hunting Mosquitos' at TENT Rotterdam in the group exhibition 'There is no party so noisy as the one you’re not invited to' curated by Linnea Semmerling. The project was realised with support from the Creative Industries Fund NL. More info: w-i-t-m.net
Shivano Raghoenathsingh is a lecturer in the Bachelor's program of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University. He has conducted research for the University of Amsterdam, De Volkskrant, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Erasmus University, focusing on themes such as gentrification, urban allochtone youth, postcolonial studies, plural policing, racialization, and migration.
