Control centers are rooms equipped with the latest information systems for monitoring, regulating and controlling things like urban infrastructures. What do these control centers look like? How do electronic media change the communicative action in these centers and the control of the outside space? Two sociologists from the Collaborative Research Center on Refiguring Spaces at the TU Berlin bring perspectives from practice and science into conversation.
Workshop
Free admission
In German
Haus der Kulturen und der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
Berlin,
10557
Deutschland
Moderation: Arne Janz and David Joshua Schröder
Participants:
Carsten Jungmann (CEO Jungmann Systemtechnik) and Leon Hempel (Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, TU Berlin)
Curation: Janin Walter, Stefanie Bürkle and Severine Marguin
Social structures and processes are reflective of and defined by power relations, and so is space: inequalities, as well as underlying power structures, materialize spatially. We are interested in how power is reflected in space, engaging with theory and empirical perspectives. On the one hand, we want to explore how hegemony and spatial power relations […]
