Datum: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:53 +0200
Von: "Sebastian Vehlken" <sebastian.vehl...@leuphana.de>
Betreff: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic
Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to inform you about the upcoming transdisciplinary conference
Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks.
It will be held from August 30th, to September 1st, 2012, in the
Denkerei, Oranienplatz 2, 10999 Berlin.
Further information is also be found at the conference website at
http://www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods . If you are
interested in this workshop, please register via this website.
We are looking forward meeting you in the Denkerei!
Kind regards,
Sebastian Vehlken and Tobias Harks.
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NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGIES. MEDIA AND MATHEMATICS OF DYNAMIC NETWORKS.
A transdisciplinary Conference.
Concept and Organisation: Tobias Harks (Mathematics, University of
Maastricht) and Sebastian Vehlken (Culture and Media Studies, Leuphana
University Lüneburg).
Conference languages: English and German
This conference is the Blankensee-Colloquium 2012, funded by the
Kooperationsfonds of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for
Advanced Studies.
Co-funded by Leuphana University Lüneburg.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Aug 30
14.00-14.30 Welcome Reception
14.30-14.45 Thorsten Wilhelmy (Institute for Advanced Studies,
Berlin): Welcome Address
14.45-15.00 Tobias Harks (University of Maastricht) and Sebastian
Vehlken (Leuphana University Lüneburg): Neighborhood Technologies – An
Introduction
Panel 1: Neighborhood Connections
15.00-16.30
Shintaro Miyazaki (Berlin): Neighborhood Listening. A Media
Archaeology of Packet Switching in the 1970s
Carolin Wiedemann (Studienstiftung, Berlin): Anonymous and the Desire
to Keep Swarming
16.30 -16.45 Coffee Break
16.45-18.15
Katharine S. Willis (University of Plymouth): Augmented
Neighbourhoods – Locative Media and Changing Mental Models of Urban
Places
Babak Ghanadian (niriu, Hamburg): From Virtual Strangers to Real
Neighbours: niriu, the Local Network
18.15-18.30 Break
Keynote 1
18.30-20.00: Dirk Helbing (ETH Zürich): FuturICT – Global
Participatory Computing for Our Complex World
20.00 Get-Together
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FRIDAY Aug 31
Keynote 2
09.30-10.45: Sándor Fekete (TU Braunschweig): Improving Traffic Flow
by Local Methods
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Neighborhood Coordinations
11.00-13.00
Manfred Füllsack (Graz): Emergence and Downward Causation – Assessing
the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks
Felix Salfner (HU Berlin): Global Knowledge from Local Measurements –
Detecting spreading Anomalies in Complex Software Systems
Alex Hall (Google, Zürich): Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Panel 3: Neighborhood Realities
14.00-16.00
Jens Krause (IGB Berlin): Collective Behavior and Swarm Intelligence
Verena V. Hafner (HU Berlin): Interactive Robotics
Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin): Choreographing the Swarm –
Relational Bodies
in Contemporary Performance
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
Panel 4: Neighborhood Architectures
16:30-18:00
Christina Vagt (TU Berlin): Buckminster Fuller: Neighborhood Design
Henriette Bier (TU Delft): Neighbourhood Technologies in
Digitally-driven Architecture
19.30 Conference Dinner (for Conference Speakers)
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SATURDAY Sep 01
Panel 5: Neighborhood Complexities
10.00-11.30
Martin Hoefer (RWTH Aachen): Contribution and Matching Games in Networks
Paul Harrenstein (TU München): It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-13.00
Stefan Thurner (MedUni Wien): tba (Complexity Science)
Felix König (TomTom, Amsterdam): Crowdsourcing in Navigation – How
Selfish Drivers Help to Reduce Congestion for All
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Panel 6: Neighborhood Images and Politics
14.00-15.30
Matthias Trapp (HPI Potsdam): Neighborhood Visualization – Challenges
and Strategies from a Geovisualization Perspective
Andrej Holm (HU Berlin) and Lorenz Matzat (Medienkombinat Berlin):
GentriMap – Geovisualisierung als Instrument der
Stadtentwicklungsanalyse
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break
15.45-17.00
Claus Pias and Wolfgang Hagen (Leuphana University Lüneburg):
Commentary and Concluding Plenary Session
17.00 End of Conference
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Contact:
NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGIES
Project Management
c/o Mayka Kmoth (Project Assistance)
Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg
e-mail:conference-neighborho...@leuphana.de
tel: +49-4131-677-1646
homepage: http://www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods
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