Digital Clouds and Urban Spaces. Cities as Information Systems

Location: Architekturzentrum, Wien

Date: 06/11/2014

DigitalClouds

Urbanity is increasingly shaped by networks of informational technologies. However, it is not only traffic control systems, energy supply, infrastructure and planning models which are based on ever more complex digital systems. The world of work, social spaces and cultural processes, too, increasingly rely on a complex structure of electronically controlled processes.

Global companies and their technologies promise to make cities more efficient, safer and cleaner. But do these systems actually benefit the citizens, and if so, to what extent? What might be long-term consequences and which side effects must be expected? What are the risks of an ever-increasing dependence on complex systems? Which options and possible courses of action do citizens actually have?

 

13:30

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Opening:

Karoline Mayer, Architekturzentrum Wien

Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute

13:45 – 15:15

INTELLIGENT CITY?

Introduction and Critical Perspectives

 

Another city is possible:

Networked urbanism from above and below.

Adam Greenfield (USA)

 VIDEO

 

Urban Development in the Information Age

Issues, Elements, Perspectives

Barbara Saringer-Bory (AT)

 VIDEO

 

15:15 – 15:30 Pause

 

15:30 – 17:00

SUSTAINABLE CITY?

Infrasctructure and Urban Dynamics

 

The Sustainable City as a Flexible Framework?OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Between the poles of local urban development and supra-regional networks.

Daiva Jakutyte-Walangitang (AT)

VIDEO

 

 

The Inevitable End of the Internet and the Fall of the Information Society

Thomas Grüter (DE)

VIDEO

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

17:00 – 17:30 Pause

 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

17:30 – 19:00
OPEN CITY?

Decentral Technologies and Urban Life

 

Technologies for the People?
A bottom-up approach to urban informatisation

Marleen Stikker (NL)

VIDEO

 

Right to the City.
The other vision of an urban society.

Christoph Laimer (AT)

VIDEO

 

19:00- 19:15 Pause

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

19:15 – 20:15
Panel:

Global Processes and Local Spaces

Ina Homeier (AT)
Adam Greenfield (USA)
Marleen Stikker (NL)
Oliver Schuerer (AT)
Elke Rauth (Moderation)

VIDEO

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

This event will be held in German and English.

World – Information Institute in cooperation with dérive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung (magazine for Urban Research) and Architekturzentrum Wien. Supported by departure