„Urban Circulations“
Virtual Conference on June 23 2022
13.06.2022 von Raphael Longoni, Andrea Protschky, Eline Punt
The event is organized by Research Training Group KRITIS
https://kritis.gitlab.io/ucconf2022/
Infrastructures for water, energy, mobility, and communication require and produce an unceasing circulation of loads, people, and information. While these cater to societal needs and prevalent economic targets, issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change challenge the modernist ideal of continuous flows, their acceleration, intensification, and ubiquitous connectivity. They remind us of the risks of our dependency on undisrupted provision and malign or transgressive, i.e. unwanted circulations. Broadly, we may understand circulation as interconnected, multidirectional movement within possibly heterogeneous and evolving socio-technical and ecological systems. Despite its pervasiveness, many disciplines hardly theorize circulation or frame it under different conceptions. Thus, this conference aims to foster (interdisciplinary) understanding of circulation, associated risks and consequences. The three panels of the conference target the conception and critical application of circulation in different research fields. Researchers from media and political sciences, sociology, history, human geography, planning, social ecology and engineering circle around a row of common questions: How is circulation determined, enabled and negotiated? What are the possibilities and outcomes of planning circulation? And what is the role of material artifacts, resources and bodies in these processes.
Together with participants from various disciplines, we will discuss how these conceptions and observations help us grasp socio-ecological structures and processes and address burning questions of our time.
PROGRAM:
PANEL 1: WORKING WITH CIRCULATION
09:00 Opening Remarks
09:25 KEYNOTE 1: Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester): Metabolisms – Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real
10:30 Mathias Denecke MA (University Bochum): Work it – Circulations in the logistics city
11:00 Nicolás Palacios Crisótomo MSc (ETH Zurich): “We organize in under 10 minutes”: digital vignettes on spatial abstraction and tactics of resistance in delivery work
11:30 Krischan Bockhorst MA (Universität Leipzig): How the disruption of a circulation flow enabled new flows across the Iron Curtain
12:00 Carolien Lubberhuizen MSc & Dr. Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University): Follow the commutes – Commuting trajectories of migrant workers as lens to understand arrival infrastructures and urban-rural circulations
PANEL 2: PLANNING CIRCULATION
13:35 Rodrigo Cerqueira Agueda MA (State University of Rio de Janeiro): Beyond the Joá – Infrastructural circulations building the future in Rio de Janeiro
14:05 TBC
14:35 Allegra Celine Baumann MA (Technical University of Darmstadt): Cruise tourism and circulation – Rhythms of cruise passengers in the city
PANEL 3: MATERIALITIES OF CIRCULATION
15:20 Jakob Weber MA (University of Basel): Socio-natural arrangements with water in the rural-urban fringe of the minor city of Basel during the 15th century
15:50 Moritz Kasper MSc (Technical University Dortmund): Jerry cans, super drums, water tanks – Domestic water storage as critical infrastructure in Nairobi
16:20 Dr. Yaffa Truelove (University of Colorado Boulder): The prosthetics of infrastructure – Invisible bodies, devalued labor and the everyday circulation of water in Delhi
17:00 KEYNOTE 2: Prof. Sabine Barles (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Environment, metabolism and infrastructures – Circulations in Paris, 18th-21st centuries
17:50 Closing remarks
