Program
Neighborhood Technologies Conference
Thursday Aug 30
14.00-14.30
Welcome Reception
14.30
Thorsten Wilhelmy (Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin)
Welcome Address
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 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
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 Complexities
11.00-13.00
Martin Hoefer (RWTH Aachen)
Contribution and Matching Games in Networks
Paul Harrenstein (TU München)
It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
Manfred Füllsack (Uni Graz)
Emergence and Downward Causation –
Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks
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 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)
Saturday Sep 01
Panel 5: Neighborhood Coordinations
10.00-11.30
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
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