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I am a Philosopher of Technology who works on the interplay between Cities, Technologies, and Human self-understanding. My current projects are centred around the following topics:

Measuring and mapping cities
Philosophy & Design

Besides being the Programme Director of the MSc programme Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society (PSTS), I am also a member of the RESTS management team, an associate editor of the Journal of Human-Technology Relations (focus: urban design), a member of the advisory board of the Philosophy of the City journal, and a convener of the Design Research Society's Design Ethics SIG.

Finally, I served as co-director of the International Philosophy of the City research group from 2017 to 2024.

If you would like some tags for my research:

#PhilosophyOfTheCity #PhilosophyOfTechnology #EmpiricalPhilosophy #ResponsibleGeoAI #DesignEthics

Organisations

Publications

2025

Building Bridges: Empirical Philosophy (of Technology) and Research through Design (2025)In Design Philosophy after the Technology Turn. Bloomsbury (Accepted/In press). Nagenborg, M. H.FRAME-PRO: Framework for the responsible and accountable mapping of deprived urban areas (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Oluoch, I. O.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036565974Do no harm: Ethics for Drone Data Projects (2025)[Other contribution › Other contribution]. Zenodo. Meissner, F., Nagenborg, M. H., Masinde, B. K. & Alunge NNangsope, R. A.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15051569

2024

Auditing Flood Vulnerability Geo-Intelligence Workflow for Biases (2024)ISPRS international journal of geo-information, 13(12), 1-22. Article 419. Masinde, B., Gevaert, C., Nagenborg, M., van den Homberg, M., Margutti, J., Gortzak, I. & Zevenbergen, J.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13120419Moral Engagement in Design: Five Considerations for Unpacking the Ethical Dimensions of Design Methods (2024)Design issues, 40(3), 37-48. Ozkaramanli - Leerkes, D. & Nagenborg, M. H.https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00774Navigating ethics-informed methods at the intersection of design and philosophy of technology (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Design Research Society, DRS 2024. Ozkaramanli, D., Smits, M., Harbers, M., Ferri, G., Nagenborg, M. H. & van de Poel, I.https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.868Accountable Geo-intelligence (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 5th Digital Society Conference 2024 (Unpublished). Masinde, B. K., Gevaert, C. M., Nagenborg, M. H. & Zevenbergen, J. A.Algorithmic Fairness in Geo-intelligence Workflows through Causality (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, EWAF 2024. Masinde, B., Gevaert, C. M., Nagenborg, M. H., van den Homberg, M. J. C. & Zevenbergen, J. A.Algorithmic Fairness in Geo-intelligence Workflows through Causality (2024)In Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3908). CEUR. Masinde, B. K., Gevaert, C. M., Nagenborg, M. H., van den Homberg, M. & Zevenbergen, J. A.Gaming Model Ensembles: Digital urban twins and the ethics of rendering (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), EASST-4S 2024. Meissner, F., Chee, F. & Nagenborg, M. H.

Research profiles

I am the programme director of Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society (MSc PSTS) as well as a member of the management team of the REflection on Science Technology and Society (RESTS) education.

I supervised thesis projects on the following topics for our PSTS master:

Uncovering the purpose of the Map: How Geospatial Data Visualisations can influence the responsibility of Governmental Policy- and Decision-Makers towards deprived Urban Areas (Joint Educational Programme with Communication Science)
The Citizens’ Strain to See Through Transparency: Exploring Reciprocity as an Alternative in the Smart City of Amsterdam (Joint Education Programme with Public Administration)
COVID-19 applications and co-production (Joint Education Programme with Public Administration)

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2025/2026

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Address

University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4216
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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