<nettime> Fwd: Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks, 30.08.-01.09.2012

["Andreas Broeckmann" <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>]

Datum: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:11:53 +0200
Von: "Sebastian Vehlken" <sebastian.vehlken@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 LÃneburg).
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 LÃneburg.

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 LÃneburg): Neighborhood Technologies â 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 â 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 ZÃrich): FuturICT â Global  
Participatory Computing for Our Complex World
20.00 Get-Together

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FRIDAY Aug 31

Keynote 2

09.30-10.45: SÃndor Fekete (TU Braunschweig): Improving Traffic Flow  
by Local Methods
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

Panel 2: Neighborhood Coordinations

11.00-13.00
Manfred FÃllsack (Graz): Emergence and Downward Causation â Assessing  
the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks
Felix Salfner (HU Berlin): Global Knowledge from Local Measurements â  
Detecting spreading Anomalies in Complex Software Systems
Alex Hall (Google, ZÃrich): 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 â  
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 MÃnchen): 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 KÃnig (TomTom, Amsterdam): Crowdsourcing in Navigation â 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 â Challenges  
and Strategies from a  Geovisualization Perspective
Andrej Holm (HU Berlin) and Lorenz Matzat (Medienkombinat Berlin):  
GentriMap â Geovisualisierung als Instrument der  
Stadtentwicklungsanalyse
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.00
Claus Pias and Wolfgang Hagen (Leuphana University LÃneburg):  
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 LÃneburg
e-mail:conference-neighborhoods@leuphana.de
tel: +49-4131-677-1646
homepage: http://www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods


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