Spatial Refiguration: Dynamics, Challenges, and Conflicts
3. International Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre “Re-Figuration of Spaces”, October 28-30, 2021
Since 2018, the collaborative research centre CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” has brought together more than 60 researchers from the disciplines of sociology, architecture, urban planning, geography, media and communication studies. Following the central hypothesis of the CRC that the radical changes in socio-spatial orders which have emerged since the late 1960s require a new concept and theories beyond globalisation, the forthcoming international conference will invite renowned international scholars and a wide-ranging academic audience to discuss preliminary research outcomes. How can the concept of the refiguration of spaces help make conflictual transformation processes more tangible and enable a better understanding of the underlying dynamics which shape new conflicts and challenges? How do these conflicts manifest themselves in spatial knowledge, in new forms of digital communication and decision making, or in knowledge circuits, mobilities and flows across globally connected societies. Confirmed keynote speakers include Ulrich Brand, Robin Celikates, Keller Easterling, Serene Khader, Walter Mignolo and Raquel Rolnik.
Registration is closed, for any inquiries please contact info@sfb1265.tu-berlin.de
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2021
12:30-1:30 pm
CONFERENCE OPENING – Welcome
Johanna Hoerning / Philipp Misselwitz (SFB1265)
Varieties of Refiguration
Martina Löw / Hubert Knoblauch (SFB 1265)
1:30-3:30 pm
SESSION 1: Networked Refiguration
Alexa Keinert / Barbara Pfetsch / Daniela Stoltenberg / Annie Waldherr / Jan-Peter Voß / Volkan Sayman / Talja Blokland / Robert Vief / Henrik Schultze / Daniela Krüger (SFB 1265)
Paula Nitschke (University of Augsburg)
SESSION 2: Digital Refiguration
Hubert Knoblauch / René Tuma / Gabriela Christmann / Martin Schinagl / Eric Lettkemann / Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer (SFB 1265)
Keynote – Nick Couldry (London School of Economics)
3:30-4:00 pm
VIRTUAL LOUNGE
4:00-6:00 pm
PLENARY DEBATE 1: Challenging Universalism – Whose Refiguration?
Keynote
Walter Mignolo (Duke University)
Refigurations of Universalism and Reconstitutions of the Pluriversal
Discussant: Silke Steets (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Chair: Johanna Hoerning (SFB 1265)
6:15-9:00 pm
EXHIBITION OPENING
Visualising the Refiguration of Space
Peter Behrbohm (independent artist)
Johanna Benz / Tiziana Beck (graphicrecording.cool)
Séverine Marguin (SFB 1265)
Chair: Philipp Misselwitz (SFB 1265)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2021
8:00-9:00 am
VIRTUAL LOUNGE
9:00-10:30 am
SESSION 3a: Homemaking Refigured I
Anna Steigemann / Ayham Dalal / Caroline Genz / Janina Dobrusskin / Lucas Pohl / Ilse Helbrecht (SFB 1265)
Emma Power (Western Sydney University)
SESSION 4a: Conflictive Refiguration I – Politics
Sina Birkholz / Steffen Mau / Kristina Korte / Fabian Gülzau / Theresa Adenstedt (SFB 1265)
Fabio Santos (Freie Universität Berlin)
10:30-11:00 am
VIRTUAL LOUNGE
11:00am-12:30 pm
SESSION 3b Homemaking Refigured II
Ignacio Castillo Ulloa / Angela Million / Hannah Klug / Jörg Stollmann / Hannah Wolf (SFB 1265)
SESSION 4b: Conflictive Refiguration II – Identities
Jochen Kibel / Gunter Weidenhaus / Eva Korte / Stefanie Bürkle / Janin Walter (SFB1265)
Silke Steets (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
12:30-1:30 pm
VIRTUAL LOUNGE / LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:30 pm
PLENARY DEBATE 2: Global spatial dynamics and interdependencies
Keynotes
Keller Easterling (Yale University)
Medium Design
Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)
Spatial Refiguration of the Imperial Mode of Living: A Political Ecology Perspective in Times of Multiple Crisis
Discussant: Nina Gribat (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Chair: Philipp Misselwitz (SFB 1265)
3:30-4:00 pm
VIRTUAL LOUNGE
4:00-6:00 pm
SESSION 4c: Conflictive Refiguration III – Economy
Nina Baur / Linda Hering / Julia Fülling / Stefan Kirchner (SFB 1265)
Elke Schüßler (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
6:15-8:15 pm
PLENARY DEBATE 3: Refiguring Conflicts
Keynotes
Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo)
Methodologies for Housing Justice Research
Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin)
Dialectics of (De-)Politicization. Refiguring the Demos ‘from the Margins’
Discussant: Lisa Vollmer (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Chair: Johanna Hoerning (SFB 1265)
8:15-8:30 pm
CONFERENCE CLOSING
Johanna Hoerning / Philipp Misselwitz (SFB1265)
This workshop, organized by the project B02 "Control/Space" at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 at TU Berlin, explores different spatial changes and dynamics of the Internet infrastructure using the notion of refiguration, which presents a concept of tensions between four key spatial figures and spatial logics: the place, the territory, the network, and the route. […]
Dr. Thomas Dörfler, social geographer at the University of Jena, is engaged in interdisciplinary research on social space, urban-rural differences and methodologies. Projects on atmospheres, (rural) gentrification and socio-spatial milieus; interim professor at Heidelberg University (2021–22) and RUB Bochum (2014–16). Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß has the Chair of Social and Population Geography at the University […]
