[DMANET] Conference on Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
A transdisciplinary Conference.
www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods


Dates: 30.8.-1.9. 2012
Location: Berlin, Kreuzberg, Denkerei
Registration (free of charge): www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods/registration.html



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 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 S. 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

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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 Coordinations

11.00-13.00
Manfred Füllsack (Graz): Emergence and Downward Causation – Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks
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

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

16.00-16.30 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 München): 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 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
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