Control centers are rooms equipped with the latest information systems for monitoring, regulating and controlling things like urban infrastructures. What do these control centers look like? How do electronic media change the communicative action in these centers and the control of the outside space? Two sociologists from the Collaborative Research Center on Refiguring Spaces at the TU Berlin bring perspectives from practice and science into conversation.
Workshop
Free admission
In German
Haus der Kulturen und der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
Berlin,
10557
Deutschland
Moderation: Arne Janz and David Joshua Schröder
Participants:
Carsten Jungmann (CEO Jungmann Systemtechnik) and Leon Hempel (Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, TU Berlin)
Curation: Janin Walter, Stefanie Bürkle and Severine Marguin
This workshop, organized by the project B02 "Control/Space" at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 at TU Berlin, explores different spatial changes and dynamics of the Internet infrastructure using the notion of refiguration, which presents a concept of tensions between four key spatial figures and spatial logics: the place, the territory, the network, and the route. […]
Dr. Thomas Dörfler, social geographer at the University of Jena, is engaged in interdisciplinary research on social space, urban-rural differences and methodologies. Projects on atmospheres, (rural) gentrification and socio-spatial milieus; interim professor at Heidelberg University (2021–22) and RUB Bochum (2014–16). Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß has the Chair of Social and Population Geography at the University […]
