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From: Armin Beverungen
Date:12/06/2014 12:16 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: Computing the City, 9-10 July, Lüneburg, Germany

Computing the City: Ubiquitous Computing and Logistical Cities

9-10 July 2014, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg
a Digital Cultures Research Lab workshop
organized by Florian Sprenger and Armin Beverungen

Outline

Ubiquitous computing is often referred to as a prime example not only of a
new mode of computing, but of a new paradigm of mediation itself. The
‘smart city’ is promoted as its primary site of materialisation: the
integration of computational systems with architectural design turns
inefficient urban settings into smart cities that manifest as the
penultimate value-extraction machines. Yet the contested history of this
transformation, and much of its politics, remains largely unwritten. This
workshop investigates the urban dimensions of ubiquitous computing and
infrastructural organization at different scales – the home, the
neighbourhood, the city, the region – which merge in a common, exchangeable
currency of data. The workshop focuses specifically on the pre-history of
ubiquitous computing, its status as media infrastructure, its complicity
with logistics, as well as its virtual futures.

Such an approach to smart urban environments is embedded in a theoretical
trajectory which questions the accustomed self-descriptions of a mediated
society – as a new infrastructure of living and dwelling. Town-planning
has, since the early 20th century, relied on ecological concepts of
environmental transformations. By drawing a line from these early urban
development plans to todays digital infrastructures, it becomes evident
that the current condition of smart cities has to be understood as part of
a transition of environments from natural habitats to objects of planning,
management and control.

Yet what are the operational logics of this infrastructure? Pervaded by
visible and invisible networks, the city becomes a playground for global
corporations to play and experiment with technologies of surveillance, big
data and endless feedback loops, continuously improving the passageways of
commerce. The smartness here is that of technical systems that render
urbanites into subjects of cybernetic management, supposedly empowered by
their involvement in perfectly organised urban environments, whether it be
in terms of efficiency or sustainability. Logistics is what defines not
only the internal flows of the city but what links them up. Where the smart
city expands, is duplicated and traded in a protocological fashion,
logistical infrastructure - transport and software - connects the smart
cities in an intelligent web that only knows its own protocological rules
and limits. Logistics reveals the logic of smart cities as that of trade
and circulation: of data, things and people.

The coincidence between the smart city and logistics implies a certain
foreclosure of its possibilities and virtual futures. Many accounts of
smart cities recognise the historical coincidence of cybernetic control and
neoliberal capital. Even where it is machines which process the vast
amounts of data produced by the city so much so that the ruling and
managerial classes disappear from view, it is usually the logic of capital
that steers the flows of data, people and things. Yet what other futures of
the city may be possible within the smart city, what collective
intelligence may it bring forth? Can one fathom the possible others of the
logistical city e.g. in the visions of the cybernetic revolutionaries of
Project Cybersyn or the cyberpunks of the 1990s? What other historical or
contemporary examples of resistances to or alternative visions of
ubiquitous computing in city could one draw on?

 Timetable

Wednesday 9th July

10:00  Welcome and introduction

10:30-11:30 Orit Halpern
Test-bed Urbanism: The Zonal logic of the Smart City

11:45-12:45 Florian Sprenger
From well-tempered Environments to Environmental Media - Reyner Banham,
Urban Infrastructures and architecture autre

12:45-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Jussi Parikka
Ubiquitous Computing and Cultural Techniques of Cognitive Capitalism

15:45-16:45 Clemens Apprich
New Babylonian Dream: InfoCities and the well informed citizen

18.00-19.30  Movie screening (&drinks): Urban Mapping Experience
followed by discussion with director Violeta Burckhardt Razeto,
led by Paula Bialski
Venue: Mondbasis (http://mondbasis.co)

19:30-21:30 Informal dinner

[22:00 Football World Cup Quarter Final]

Thursday 10th July

9:30-10:00  Reflections on previous day

10:00-11:00 Christoph Neubert
The city as extension and environment. Historical views on urban
eco-logistics

11:45-12:45 Ned Rossiter
Coordinating Life in Predictive Cities

12:45-13:15 Concluding discussion & next steps

13.15-14.30 Informal wrap-up lunch
  Venue: Osteria del Teatro (http://www.osteriadelteatro.de)

If interested please register with armin.beverungen at leuphana.de.

https://www.facebook.com/events/609559462492816/

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