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

Conference flyer (wird in neuem Tab geöffnet)