Vergangene Woche fand die virtuelle Abschlusskonferenz des BMBF-Forschungsverbundes „DIGISTA ¬ – Die digitale Stadt“, federführend organisiert von Paula Nitschke und Jeffrey Wimmer statt. Wir blicken zurück auf zwei spannende Tage mit Inputs von KollegInnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zum Thema „The (Post-)Digital City: Media, Technology and Architecture“. Wir bedanken uns bei allen Teilnehmenden für das Interesse und die spannenden Diskussionen.

Paula Nitschke und Jeffrey Wimmer vom imwk sind Teil des Leitungsteams des DIGISTA-Forschungsverbundes und haben die Tagung an die Uni Augsburg gebracht, unterstützt wurden sie in der Tagungsorganisation von Tomas Novy vom Arbeitsbereich Medienrealität. 

Programm

Thursday, 17th February 2022
13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome

13:10 - 14:40 | Panel 1: Talking the city into existence
Panel chair: Paula Nitschke (Augsburg University)

• Ulrike Röttger & Lennart Rettler (University of Münster) | Cornerstones of the digital city? Consideration of local subreddits of major German cities
• Laura Visan (University of Toronto Scarborough) | Cluj – Napoca as a smart city: A discourse analysis
• Helena Atteneder (University Tübingen), Christine Lohmeier (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) | Creating an “authentic” sense of place. Analysing narratives of the „Andräviertel" in Salzburg – between insider's tip and commercial tourist attraction

14:40 - 15:00 | Break

15:00 - 16:30 | Panel 2: Designing and coding the city

Panel Chair: Peter Gentzel (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

• Linda Siegel (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) | Who codes for whom? Social values and user imaginations of techworkers in the software sector of public transport companies
• Annelien Smets (imec-SMIT/University of Brussel) | Cities of curiosity: Designing for serendipity in the smart city
• Marija Marić (University of Luxembourg) | Fractional ownership. Bricks, blocks and (block)chains

16:30 - 16:45 | Break
16:45 - 17:25 | Panel 3: Bodies and data in the city
Panel chair: Jeffrey Wimmer (Augsburg University)

• Presentation and film screening: Debra Mackinnon (University of Windsor), Sava Saheli Singh (University of Ottawa) | Paper presentation: Vulnerable bodies: Relations of visibility In the speculative smart city
• Film screening and discussion: “Frames” - The film is part of the screening surveillance project

18:00 - 19:00 | Online dinner
Friday, 18th February 2022 Time: UTC+1
10:00 - 11:30 | Panel 4: Experiencing the city
Panel chair: Jeffrey Wimmer (Augsburg University)

• Eric Lettkemann, Ingo Schuelz-Schaeffer (TU Berlin) | Locative Media: New spatial realities between conflict and coexistence
• Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Katja Kaufmann, Veit Badde, Magnus Bremer, Niklas Gudowsky- Blatakes, Andreas Kollert, Jacqueline Kowalski, Jan Misera, Johannes Melchert, Martin Rutzinger (DigitAS research project) | Understanding the effects of mobile social media and augmentation on the affective- emotional experience of parks in the (post-)digital city
• Christine Lohmeier, Lisa Schulze (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) | Where do we go from here? – Using Google Maps

11:30 - 11:45 | Break

11:45 - 12:45 | Panel 5: Building the city
Panel chair: Alina Wandelt (Leipzig University)

• Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Diane Arvanitakis, Hanna Krohberger, Lukas Legner, Alain Thierstein (TU Munich) | The performance of exceptional public buildings on social media -The case of Depot Boijmans
• Philipp Reinfeld (TU Braunschweig) | Agora Virtuell: Kollektives Entwerfen von Diskursräumen in Virtual Reality (The presentation will be given in German)

12:45 - 13:00 | Break
13:00 - 14:30 | ECREA-Panel: Researching the city

(Trans)forming the (post-)digital city: Current issues, future visions 
Panel chair: Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University)

• Speakers: Scott Rodgers, Birkbeck (University of London) Marcos Dias (Dublin City University) Lou Brandner (University of Cagliari / Sapienza Università di Roma) Stefania Parisi (Sapienza Università di Roma)

End of the conference 

Die Konferenz findet online statt. Wenn Sie an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen möchten, schreiben Sie eine Mail an  Paula Nitschke. Wir senden Ihn dann die Zugangslinks (wir nutzen Wonder und Zoom) und ergänzende Informationen zum Programm zu.