March 22 - 24, 2002
Location: University of Technology Darmstadt, Old Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 1, Darmstadt, Germany
| Conference
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| SECTION 1: Coping with Urban Places: Physical Structures and Daily Life in the Modern City | |||
| Plenary speech 1 (Friday, March 22, 13.30): | |||
| (chair: Mikael Hård, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Thomas J. Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology: Skyscrapers, Modernity, and Spatiality: Città Nuova to the World Trade Center | |||
| Session 1a (Friday, March 22, 15.30): The Spatial Character of Urban Infrastructures | |||
| (chair: Oana Mitrea, Technical University Darmstadt ) | |||
| Hans Buiter, University of Technology Eindhoven: From 'Wet Towns' to 'Dry Cities' - Spatial and Functional Transformations of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague between 1860 and 1940. | |||
| Barbara Schmucki, University of York/National Railway Museum/Technical University Darmstadt: 'Transported Bodies: The Efficiency of Urban Public Space. | |||
| Derek Simons, Simon Fraser University Vancouver: Spectres of Paradise: Vancouver's New Streetscape and the Apprehension of Technology. | |||
| Session 1b (Saturday, March 23, 9.30): Information Flow and Expert Knowledge in Urban Settings | |||
| (chair: Thomas J. Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology) | |||
| Martina Heßler, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology: Death of Distance? "Science-Cities" and the Importance of Spatial Proximity. | |||
| Paul R. Josephson, Colby College: The Topology of the Civilian-Military Interface: Science and Technology in the Ural Scientific Center. | |||
| Norbert Stieniczka, Technical University Darmstadt: From Traffic Flow to Data Flow – The Transformation of Urban Traffic Concepts. | |||
| Session 1c (Saturday, March 23, 15.30): Architecture and Urban Spaces | |||
| (chair: Hans Buiter, University of Technology Eindhoven) | |||
| Casey Alt, Stanford University: Flow, Process, Fold: Intersections in Bioinformatics and Contemporary Architecture. | |||
| Cornelis Disco/Adrienne van den Bogaard, University of Twente/Delft University of Technology: The Three Dimensional City. Plans, Volumes, Layered Systems and Intersections. | |||
| Martine Duquesne, University Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne: Is Urbanism a Feminine Occupation? | |||
| Laurent Tourrette, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard: The Harder They Fall: Should High-Rise Towers Be Seen as Modern Towers of Babel? | |||
| SECTION 2 Coping with the Dimensions: Visual Technologies and the Re-Ordering of Spaces | |||
| Plenary speech 2 (Friday, March 22, 20.30): | |||
| (chair: Philine Warnke, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| David Gugerli, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich: Visualizing the Human Body - The Inter-Play of Dissection, Norms, and Repaired Topologies (1917/1986). | |||
| Session 2a (Friday, March 22, 15.30): Technologies of Surveillance and Visibility | |||
| (chair: Martina Heßler, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology) | |||
| Anne Meyer-Rath/Werner Rammert, Technical University Berlin: In the Public Gaze: CCTV and the Prevention of Events in Urban Space. | |||
| Anna Vitores Gonzalez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona: From Inhabiting to Haunting: New Ways of Social Control. | |||
| David Wood, University of Newcastle: Technology, Territory and Transgression: Algorithmic Surveillance in Public Spaces and the Displacement of Politics. | |||
| Session 2b (Saturday, March 23, 9.30): Making the World Transparent | |||
| (chair: Andreas Lösch, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Sabine Höhler, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin: A Sound Survey: Technological Perceptions of Ocean Depth. | |||
| Dirk Verdicchio, Technical University Darmstadt/University Freiburg: Cruising the Body. | |||
| Helen Watkins, University of British Columbia Vancouver: Fridge Stories: Three Geographies of the Domestic Refrigerator. | |||
| Yutaka Yoshinaka, Technical University of Denmark Lyngby: On Knowledge Processes, Distribution and Alignment: Spatio-materialities and their Transformation in Clinical MRI. | |||
| Session 2c (Sunday, March 24, 11.30): Simulation Processes and the Creation of New Phenomena | |||
| (chair: Sabine Höhler, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin) | |||
| Thomas Dahl, SINTEF Industrial Management Trondheim: The Transformation of Space and the Construction of Engineering Knowledge and Practice – From Renaissance Perspective Thinking to Gaspard Monge’s Descriptive Geometry. | |||
| Andreas Lösch, Technical University Darmstadt: The ›Natural‹ Spaces of Biotechnology ( Reflections on the Simulated Conditions of Space from the Perspective of Cultural Sociology. | |||
| Erich W. Schienke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Who's Mapping the Mappers?: Ethnographic Research in the Production of Digital Cartography. | |||
| Philine Warnke, Technical University Darmstadt: Computer Simulation and Space Transformation - A multidimensional Story. | |||
| SECTION 3: Virtual Entertainment, the Arts, and Emerging Lifestyles | |||
| Plenary discussion (Saturday, March 23, 13:30): "How do we study the relationship between space and materiality?" | |||
| (chair: Christoph Rodatz, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Session 3a (Friday, March 22, 15.30): Virtual Realities: From Miniature Dioramas to Holodecks | |||
| (chair: Karin Zachmann, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Natascha Adamowsky, Humboldt Universität Berlin: See you on the holodeck! Morphing into new dimensions. | |||
| Don Ihde, State University of New York: Multistability in Cyberspace. | |||
| Nicolas P. Maffei, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich: The Future in Miniature: The Production and Consumption of Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama and War Models Exhibit, 1937- 1944. | |||
| Claus Pias, Bauhaus-University Weimar: From Saigon to SimCity© and back. | |||
| Session 3b (Saturday, March 23, 9.30): Overcoming Distance | |||
| (chair: Ulrike Kissmann, Technical University Berlin) | |||
| Kerstin Evert, Free University Berlin. Theatre as Hyperspace. | |||
| Ute Holl, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Cinematic Feedbacks in the Perception of Space: Murnau´s Raum. | |||
| Christoph Rodatz, Technical University Darmstadt: The e-Flaneur as Figure of Transition. | |||
| Session 3c (Saturday, March 23, 15.30): Mediated Interfaces | |||
| (chair: Norbert Stieniczka, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Ulrike Kissmann, Technical University Berlin: The Legacy of Nationalsocialism in the Perception and Use of German Nuclear Technology. | |||
| Günther Landsteiner, MEDIACULT: Intern. Res. Inst. f. Media, Communic., & Cultural Developm., Vienna: Interfaces – Constructing Information Spaces, Regulating Practices. | |||
| Mark Saatjan, University of California Santa Barbara: Balloon Flight and the Invention of Airspace (1783-1870). | |||
| Session 3d (Sunday, March 24, 11.30): Ordering Public and Private Spaces | |||
| (chair: Kerstin Evert, Free University Berlin) | |||
| Michael Curry, University of California Los Angeles: Geographic Technologies and the New Topography. | |||
| Maria Rentetzi, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research Vienna: The Spatial Culture of Physics and its Gender Dimensions: The Spatial Location of the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna and the Gender Production of Knowledge. | |||
| SECTION 4: The Spatial Dimension of Human — Non-human Interaction | |||
| Plenary speech 4 (Sunday, March 24, 9.30) | |||
| (chair: Dirk Verdicchio, Technical University Darmstadt/University Freiburg) | |||
| Kevin Hetherington, Lancaster University: Relationality, Topology and the Disposal of Space. | |||
| Session 4a (Saturday, March 23, 15.30): Representation by Topological Means | |||
| (chair: David Gugerli, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich) | |||
| Gernot Böhme, Technical University Darmstadt: The Corporeal Space and Space as Medium of Representation. | |||
| Tiago Moreira, Lancaster University: Surgical Monads: The Topological Dynamics of an Operating Room. | |||
| Albena Yaneva, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin: How Does a Museum Wall Move? Configuring Space and Agency in the Art Installation Process. | |||
| Session 4b (Sunday, March 24, 11.30): Mobility and Ubiquity in a World of Technologies | |||
| (chair: Mikael Hård, Technical University Darmstadt) | |||
| Mattias Esbjörnsson/Daniel Vesterlind, Gothenburg University: Mobility and Social Spatiality. | |||
| Sarah S. Jain, Stanford University: Topological Mobility. | |||
| Oana Mitrea/Georgeta Cornita, Technical University Darmstadt/Universitatea de Nord, Baia Mare, Romania: The Configuration of Mental Space in Mobile Telephony. | |||
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