<nettime-ann> Reminder: Technology / Affect / Space #2: Designing Affect Space, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Friday May 20, 13.30 hrs.

[Eric Kluitenberg <epk@xs4all.nl>]

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Het Nieuwe Instituut & Open! present:

Technology / Affect / Space #2: Designing Affect Space
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Friday May 20, start: 13.30

A public discussion and research meeting about the affective geographies of urban space and affective data in the city.

In recent years a new pattern of mobilisation has emerged  in urban space. Massive gatherings of crowds appear as quickly as they dissolve. The mobilisation starts online via the internet, charges with affective intensity, and spills out into public space - the places where people want to meet. But public space itself is filled with mobile media (smart phones) and wireless networks (3g, 4g, wifi) so that the ‘action on the street’ is immediately recorded and sent back into the media network. In this way small incidents can transform quickly into massive events.  

Open! the online platform for art, culture  and the public domain has launched a public research trajectory into the dynamics of this  recurrent pattern, following up on the essay Affect Space written for Open! by media theorist and researcher Eric Kluitenberg (2015). Three public discussions and research meeting have been convened with our partners the MIT ACT (Art, Culture, Technology) program in Cambridge (Mass.), LAPS Research Institute in Art and Public Space in Amsterdam, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam to explore these dynamics. In parallel to these public meetings a series of six commissioned essays will be published on the Open! platform in the coming months.  

In this meeting we will explore the role of affective exchanges in urban public spaces and the ways in  which mobile and wireless technologies reinforce and amplify these exchanges. Next we will examine the ways in which ‘affective data’ are extracted from the urban environment, as evidenced in for instance the City Pulse research project of Atos and the Living Laboratory pilot project currently undertaken by the city of Eindhoven, to monitor the leisure district Stratumseind in real-time, while simultaneously analysing social media feeds to detect ‘mood-changes’.

The overall aim is to question what the role of (spatial) design disciplines can be in these complex and highly volatile spaces, which  are both massive and ephemeral at the same time.

Talks and presentations by:
Javier Argota & Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez (JARD, architects and researchers, Madrid), Michael Buser (Geographer, University of the West of England), Linnet Taylor (researcher,  University of Amsterdam), Albert Seubers  (Director Global Strategy IT in Cities, Atos), Marcel Schouwenaar (The Incredible Machine / Internet of Things Design Manifesto, Rotterdam),  Michiel de Lange (researcher Utrecht University), Martijn de Waal (researcher University of Amsterdam), and Eric Kluitenberg (moderator).

Entrance: free
Reservations: editors@onlineopen.org

Further information:

Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
http://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en

Open!, Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain
www.onlineopen.org

LAPS - Rietveld Academy:
http://laps-rietveld.nl/?lang=en_us

Links:

Affect Space essay:
www.onlineopen.org/affect-space

JARD (Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez & Javier Argota)
www.openurbantelevision.com 
http://parsejournal.com/conference/2015-2/draft-timetable/the-conflict-of-urban-synchronicity-and-its-heterotemporalities

Michael Buser
http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus\m-buser

Linnet Taylor
www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/t/a/l.e.m.taylor/l.e.m.taylor.html

Albert Seubers
http://ascent.atos.net/author/albertseubers
http://ascent.atos.net/securing-the-cities-of-the-future

Marcel Schouwenaar
http://iotmanifesto.org/
www.the-incredible-machine.com/

Michiel de Lange
www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange
http://themobilecity.nl/author/michiel

Martijn de Waal
http://themobilecity.nl/author/martijn
http://thehackablecity.nl

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