The collaborative research center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin investigates changes in contemporary spatial arrangements with an emphasis on digital technologies and transnationalization. The goal is to determine the characteristics of the so-defined “re-figuration of spaces”. In order to achieve it, we examine a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices. This includes a more thorough examination of how emerging spatial structures are conditioned by increased interconnectedness of places and the circulation it implicates. Our conference thematizes how spaces change through mediatization, increased mobility, globalization and social dislocation. We ask which forms of arrangements, spatialities and materialities underwrite these processes. How are spaces negotiated and (visually) communicated? These questions will be addressed by international lecturers and discussed in plenary and parallel sessions.
Video Lectures
Lecture: Gillian Rose – seeing the city in digital times: flows, fields, luminescenes, xvisibilities
Lecture: Gurminder K Bhambra – Neoliberal Modernity and the Refashioning of “Open Borders”
Hauptgebäude TU Berlin,
Straße des 17. Juni 135
Berlin,
10623
Deutschland
Nina Baur
Angela Million
SFB 1265
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019
10:00 am-13:00 pm
City walks
3:00-4:00 pm
Opening Lecture: Re-Figuration of Spaces
4:15-6:00 pm
Plenary Session 1: Spatializing Contemporary Modernities and the Postcolonial Challenge
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019
9:00-10:45 am
Plenary Session 2: Visualization and Urban Space
11:15 am-1:45 pm
Session 1: Spatiality and Public Spheres
Session 2: Security, Control and Power
Session 3: Translocal Planning?
3:00-5:30 pm
Session 4: Materiality, Affordance, Re-figuration: Planning and Appropriation of Urban Space
Session 5: Spatial In-/Exclusion. Global and Local Perspectives on Spatial Inequality
6:00-7:30 pm
Keynote Lecture: Thinking Across Scales: From Place-Based Community to Large-Scale Social Integration
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
9:30-12:00 am
Session 6: Entanglements of Space and Time
Session 7: Urbanity, Migration, Mobility
1:30-3:15 pm
Plenary Session 3: Space, Labor and Economy
3:45-5:30 pm
Plenary Discussion: Interdisciplinarity in Spatial Research
For a long time, the globalization of economics, politics, and other social fields was seen as an unstoppable development. In recent years, however, the global geopolitical landscape has witnessed a resurgence of spatial conflicts, particularly over issues of borders, national territories, and sovereignty. The emergence of new spatial conflicts, not only in Europe but around […]
