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Envisioning Uncertain Futures
This book contains a collection of projects and scenarios dealing with new risks from emerging technologies, future peace keeping operations, and water distribution issues by combining analysis with dialogue. Special attention is paid to the methodology of narrative scenarios, and the role of imagination in the generation of these scenarios. Appearing as short stories, narrative scenarios include a great amount of explicit and implicit knowledge and they need story telling skills to become consistent, coherent as well as compelling and convincing pictures of the future.
Timescapes of Waiting
Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies – in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states. Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth.
If Cars Could Walk
In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former ‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.
Civilian Drones, Visual Privacy and EU Human Rights Law
This book examines rights issues in relation to visual privacy in the use of civilian drones. Here, visual privacy is described as the freedom from a combination of unwanted activities directed towards an individual, such as observing, recording, and publishing of personal visual information without an individual’s consent. The book answers the question of whether visual observation of an individual with the help of the camera systems onboard a civilian drone is lawful in light of EU law. It also discusses the legality of the subsequent recordings and publications. The issues are considered in terms of the European Convention of Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union and EU General Data Protection Regulation. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of technology, privacy and human rights law.
Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities
Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities looks at the different experiences of networked urban mobilities. While the focus in the first book is on conceptual and theory-driven perspective, this second volume emphasizes the empirical investigation of networked urban mobilities. This book is a resource for researchers interested in the field to gain easy access and overviews of different themes and approaches represented in the mobilities paradigm.
Handbook of Urban Mobilities
This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities. The Handbook of Urban Mobilities facilitates the understanding of urban mobilities within a historic conscience of societal transformation. It explores key concepts and theories within the ‘mobilities turn’ with a particular urban framework, as well as the methods and tools at play when empirical, urban mobilities research is undertaken. This book also explores the urban mobilities...
Im Zwischenraum der beschleunigten Moderne
Wartezeiten bilden ein unliebsames Alltagsphänomen, das uns jenseits seiner negativen Zuschreibung tiefe Einblicke in die Zeitkultur der Moderne gewährt. Anhand einer Archäologie von Architekturen und literarisch-künstlerischen Rezeptionen des Wartens zeigt Robin Kellermann am Beispiel des Eisenbahnverkehrs auf, wie sich Rahmung und Wahrnehmung dieses zeitlichen Zwischenraums im Laufe der Moderne von einem Zustand der würdigen Erwartung und Vorfreude zum Störfaktor der beschleunigten Welt wandelten. Damit erweitert er unser Verständnis der Epoche um ihre vielfach erzeugten Momente des Stillstands und erkundet einen Temporalzustand, der konstitutiv für die Verkehrsentwicklung wurde und trotz aller Auslöschungsversuche untrennbar mit ihr verbunden bleibt.
Climate and Energy in a Complex Transition Process towards Sustainability in Hyderabad
The Sustainable Hyderabad Project has over the course of its implementation generated knowledge towards improved understanding of the problems of climate change and energy efficiency in the complex transformation process that Hyderabad is undergoing. It has further identified potentials to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerabilities of various supply systems to climate change impacts. Analysis of institutions and governance structures, a core approach to analyzing the problems in multiple focus fields of the project, was carried out in various sectors, namely, transport, lifestyles, food provision, citizens’ participation, urban and peri-urban land use and provision of energy and water. This paper summarizes the core concepts of the project, reports its main scientific and practical results and draws lessons from obstacles encountered. The authors further analyze the key findings for policy interventions and conclude by recommending prospective actions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Hyderabad.
IM/MOBIL - Schnittstellen zwischen Architektur und Technik
Technische Anlagen zur Beförderung von Personen oder Gütern führen bislang ein Schattendasein in Wissenschaften und gesellschaftlicher Reflexion. Dabei ist der Bedarf an architektur-, technik- und kunstgeschichtlicher Forschung zum Thema enorm: Historische Aufzüge, Rolltreppen oder Schiffshebewerke geraten als technisches Erbe, aber auch aus Gründen der Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend in den Fokus von Denkmalschutz und Öffentlichkeit. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen deshalb die gestalterischen und funktionalen Schnittstellen zwischen Mobilem und Immobilem in den Blick. Die ästhetische und technische Untersuchung des Beweglichen zeigt so neue Wege zur Ertüchtigung und Erhaltung dieser historischen Anlagen auf.
Warten
Just in time, alles sofort und immer in Bewegung - es ist höchste Zeit für eine neue Kultur des Wartens, die sich dem Rausch der Beschleunigung widersetzt! Warten gilt als uncool. Wer warten muss, ist arm und arm dran. Privilegiert sind diejenigen, die sofort an der Reihe sind und alles sofort bekommen: Materielles sowieso, aber auch Immaterielles wie Bekümmerung, Pflege und Liebe. Die Digitalisierung unserer Kommunikation und unseres Lebens spiegelt uns in eine Welt des immer Machbaren und Unmittelbaren vor. Doch um welchen Preis? Wer nicht warten kann, dem geht die Geduld verloren - und die Vorfreude. Denn sie ist das Glück des Wartenden. Timo Reuter betrachtet das Warten als Sandkorn im Getriebe der pausenlosen Verwertungsmaschinerie. Und als Möglichkeit, uns neue Freiräume zu öffnen. Er untersucht den politischen Gehalt des Wartens, sein subversives Potenzial und die beglückende Kraft des Nichtstuns.
