Het Nieuwe Instituut & Open! present:
Technology / Affect / Space #2: Designing Affect Space
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Friday May 20, start: 13.30
A public discussion and research meeting about the affective geographies of
urban space and affective data in the city.
In recent years a new pattern of mobilisation has emerged in urban space.
Massive gatherings of crowds appear as quickly as they dissolve. The
mobilisation starts online via the internet, charges with affective intensity,
and spills out into public space - the places where people want to meet. But
public space itself is filled with mobile media (smart phones) and wireless
networks (3g, 4g, wifi) so that the ‘action on the street’ is immediately
recorded and sent back into the media network. In this way small incidents can
transform quickly into massive events.
Open! the online platform for art, culture and the public domain has launched
a public research trajectory into the dynamics of this recurrent pattern,
following up on the essay Affect Space written for Open! by media theorist and
researcher Eric Kluitenberg (2015). Three public discussions and research
meeting have been convened with our partners the MIT ACT (Art, Culture,
Technology) program in Cambridge (Mass.), LAPS Research Institute in Art and
Public Space in Amsterdam, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam to explore
these dynamics. In parallel to these public meetings a series of six
commissioned essays will be published on the Open! platform in the coming
months.
In this meeting we will explore the role of affective exchanges in urban public
spaces and the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies reinforce and
amplify these exchanges. Next we will examine the ways in which ‘affective
data’ are extracted from the urban environment, as evidenced in for instance
the City Pulse research project of Atos and the Living Laboratory pilot project
currently undertaken by the city of Eindhoven, to monitor the leisure district
Stratumseind in real-time, while simultaneously analysing social media feeds to
detect ‘mood-changes’.
The overall aim is to question what the role of (spatial) design disciplines
can be in these complex and highly volatile spaces, which are both massive and
ephemeral at the same time.
Talks and presentations by:
Javier Argota & Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez (JARD, architects and researchers,
Madrid), Michael Buser (Geographer, University of the West of England), Linnet
Taylor (researcher, University of Amsterdam), Albert Seubers (Director Global
Strategy IT in Cities, Atos), Marcel Schouwenaar (The Incredible Machine /
Internet of Things Design Manifesto, Rotterdam), Michiel de Lange (researcher
Utrecht University), Martijn de Waal (researcher University of Amsterdam), and
Eric Kluitenberg (moderator).
Entrance: free
Reservations: edit...@onlineopen.org
<mailto:edit...@onlineopen.org?subject=Technology%20%2F%20Affect%20%2F%20Space%20%232>
Further information:
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
http://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en <http://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en>
Open!, Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain
www.onlineopen.org <http://www.onlineopen.org/>
LAPS - Rietveld Academy:
http://laps-rietveld.nl/?lang=en_us <http://laps-rietveld.nl/?lang=en_us>
Links:
Affect Space essay:
www.onlineopen.org/affect-space <http://www.onlineopen.org/affect-space>
JARD (Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez & Javier Argota)
www.openurbantelevision.com <http://www.openurbantelevision.com/>
http://parsejournal.com/conference/2015-2/draft-timetable/the-conflict-of-urban-synchronicity-and-its-heterotemporalities
<http://parsejournal.com/conference/2015-2/draft-timetable/the-conflict-of-urban-synchronicity-and-its-heterotemporalities>
Michael Buser
http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus\m-buser
<http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus\m-buser>
Linnet Taylor
www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/t/a/l.e.m.taylor/l.e.m.taylor.html
<http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/t/a/l.e.m.taylor/l.e.m.taylor.html>
Albert Seubers
http://ascent.atos.net/author/albertseubers
<http://ascent.atos.net/author/albertseubers>
http://ascent.atos.net/securing-the-cities-of-the-future
<http://ascent.atos.net/securing-the-cities-of-the-future>
Marcel Schouwenaar
http://iotmanifesto.org/ <http://iotmanifesto.org/>
www.the-incredible-machine.com/ <http://www.the-incredible-machine.com/>
Michiel de Lange
www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange <http://www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange>
http://themobilecity.nl/author/michiel <http://themobilecity.nl/author/michiel>
Martijn de Waal
http://themobilecity.nl/author/martijn <http://themobilecity.nl/author/martijn>
http://thehackablecity.nl <http://thehackablecity.nl/>
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