BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:607@hiig.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180924T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180924T220000 DTSTAMP:20181023T154820Z URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/stephen-graham-the-politics-of-urban-dig ital-infrastructures/ SUMMARY:Stephen Graham: The politics of urban digital infrastructures DESCRIPTION:\n\nAlready more than half of the world’s population lives in cities – and this number is growing. Modern cities depend largely on in visible infrastructures that usually only become noticeable when they ceas e functioning. Similarly\, the internet is also a material infrastructure\ , although it is often portrayed as immaterial. The much-hyped ‘Smart Ci ties’ promise to digitise the urban merging of these two infrastructural layers. But what happens when they fail? Can cities be smart – and shou ld they be in the first place? What are the interests and values embodied in these infrastructures? How do we make sure that cities in the digital s ociety remain public spaces? How can they be designed to foster social ben efits and not just commercial interests?\n\n[photospace ids="53136\,53134\ ,53132\,53130\,53128"]\n\nStephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Societ y at Newcastle University's School of Architecture\, Planning and Landscap e. He has an interdisciplinary background linking human geography\, urbani sm and the sociology of technology. Since the early 1990s Prof. Graham has used this foundation to develop critical perspectives addressing how citi es are being transformed through remarkable changes in infrastructure\, mo bility\, digital media\, surveillance\, security\, militarism and vertical ity. His books include Telecommunications and the City (with Simon Marvin) \, Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail and Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers. Prof Graham’s 2011 book Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism was nominated for the Orwell Prize in political writ ing and was the Guardian’s book of the week.\n\n \;\nAgenda\n\n\n\n1 8:30\n  Doors open\n\n\n19:00 – 19:15\n  Welcome and introduction\n\n\ n19:15 – 20:00\n  The politics of urban digital infrastructures\n  Ste phen Graham (Newcastle University)\n\n\n20:00 – 21:00\n  Moderated disc ussion and questions from the audience\n\n\n21:00 – 22:00\n  Get-togeth er\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThis event was recorded\, simultaneously translated into German and broadcasted live.\n\n \;\nMaking sense of the digital society\nAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb are organising an ac ademic lecture series on Making Sense of the Digital Society. The high-pro file series thrives to develop a European perspective on the processes of transformation that our societies are currently undergoing. It started wit h an inaugural lecture by Manuel Castells about power and counter-power in the digital society in December 2017 and was continued by Christoph Neub erger\, Elena Esposito and Marion Fourcade. Shoshana Zuboff and Nick Co uldry are the upcoming speakers of our lecture series.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/S tephen-Graham_16x9-33.png CATEGORIES:Making sense of the digital society LOCATION:Säälchen - Holzmarkt\, Holzmarktstraße 25\, Berlin\, 10243\, Ge rmany X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Holzmarktstraße 25\, Berli n\, 10243\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Säälchen - Holzmarkt:geo: 0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR