Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures
Abstract
Cities and urban regions are complex and dynamic systems, constantly in flux. The attempt to represent material and immaterial interrelations and activities in the context of the built environment in its spatio-temporal ebb and flow is in traditional media such as film always a collage of unique, concrete moments captured at a specific time and place. With the rise of pervasive computing, digital and information technology, however, the capturing and representation of urban flows and rhythms have taken an abstract and quantitative turn. Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile computing devices allow to collect a continuous flow of data on spatial practices and their rhythms, whose analysis provides not only new representations of urban space but also a deeper understanding of it. In this conference contribution, we explore data-driven and -informed representations of the city and the urban realm along manifold current research activities at SpACE Lab and critically discuss the status quo, short-comings and opportunities in respect to how urban analytics as a contemporary form of rhythmanalysis is informing urban governance, design and planning practices and is thereby changing space, lived experience and spatial practices on an individual, social and urban level.
Dr. Katja Knecht is a postdoctoral researcher at the Spatial Analytics and Crossdisciplinary Experimentation Lab at ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism at the TU Braunschweig. She has been conducting research at the intersection of media and arts technology, architecture and urban planning at the Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany), Queen Mary University of London (UK), and the Future Cities Laboratory (Singapore). Her research focusses on the human- and design-centred development of digital systems to, for example, support architectural design and urban planning processes.
Olaf Mumm is senior researcher at the Spatial Analytics and Crossdisciplinary Experimentation Lab at ISU – Institute for Sustainable Urbanism at the TU Braunschweig. Olaf Mumm studied architecture and urban design at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Olaf has over ten years of experience at the interface between urban planning and urban design in practice and research. He is involved in inter- and transdisciplinary as well as design-based research projects focusing on urban phenomena, types and systems, urbanization, mobility, human-centred urban development, and data-driven and digital methods and tools for analysis, planning and design.;
Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow was appointed full professor at the TU Braunschweig in 2012, where she heads the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU). She is a licensed architect and urban planner, and co-founder of COBE in Copenhagen with Dan Stubbergaard (2005) and COBE Berlin (2012 | cobe.de), a practice focusing on architecture, urban planning, public space design, and research. Dr. Carlow has lectured and taught at universities worldwide, including Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Riseba Riga, Penn State University and Cornell University. Carlow’s research explores sustainable land use patterns, urban form and practices, urban-rural relations, and participatory planning.
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Thursday 1st December, 2022