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Michael
From: Sebastian Haumann <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23.02.2008
Subject: CFP: Technologies of Globalization - Glocalization in the
Production of Built Environment - Darmstadt 10/08
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Graduiertenkolleg “Topologie der Technik”, TU Darmstadt
30.10.2008-31.10.2008, Darmstadt
Deadline: 15.04.2008
Call for Papers
Technologies of Globalization
Technische Universität Darmstadt, October 30-31, 2008
Presently (re-)shaping social life as well as economics and science, the
effects of globalization are in their turn – and in manifold ways –
related to and in fact highly dependent on technology. The first
International Conference of the DFG-Research Group “Topologies of
Technology” seeks to explore in greater detail and from a delibarately
interdisciplinary angle the role(s) and function(s) of world-embracing
information and communication technologies, transport and computing
facilities in the global age. In particular, the plenary discussions and
five interdisciplinary streams attempt to clarify how newly developed
technologies contribute to and assist the currently observable
developments in the particular field of engineering and, more generally,
in labor distribution and organization, how they influence the
re-definition of “the local” against the backdrop of “the global,” and
in which novel ways they enable mobility (and require new modes of
managing these). In addition, space will be given to collateral effects
of both globalization and technologies at large such as world-wide
efforts of controlling and improving body movement(s), e.g. for the
target group of old-age people, in sport science/kinesiology and
perceptual computing, and to historical considerations aiming at the
disclosure of precursors of technology-enhanced globalizing tendencies.
Glocalization in the Production of Built Environment
Ever since the late 1980s, the notion of glocalization – linguistically,
a blending of “global” and “local” - has been on the agenda of academic
debate (Roland Robertson) and political practice: “Think globally, act
locally” was thus the central motto of the Rio world summit in 1992. The
idea that universal challenges can only be resolved in local contexts
prevails crucial in the discussion of environmental sustainability, too.
While raising a renewed interest in “naturalness”, the proposed
relationship of global thinking and local implementation has for some
time been a pre-eminent issue in the context of built environment. In
fact, urban and infrastructure planning and architecture are highly
enlightening examples of how the concept of “glocalization” can succeed
and where it fails. Creating and shaping space, these disciplines are
informed by universal paradigms and standards while at the same time
coping with material and social peculiarities of a given setting.
Some key questions for this session include:
- Which are the current global paradigms influencing planning and
architecture?
How did they develop? Do they encourage and facilitate sensitivity to
local contexts?
- Who are the actors on the global and local level, are the first
identical with the second?
Are they connected through networks? How does the inter-level exchange
work?
- At which stage in the planning process do local contexts start to
matter?
- How do localized experiences influence the universal discourse? Are
there specific local contexts that dominate the development of universal
paradigms?
- How do the planning disciplines absorb and conceptualize the notion of
glocalization?
Is it just another twist in the long history of transnational exchange?
- What does this mean for researchers and practitioners?
Timeline for proposals
Abstract proposals (max. 500 words) must be sent by email to
stream3@tog08 or via upload on our website www.tog08.org before April,
15th, 2008
Notification of acceptance or refusal of abstracts will be given before
May, 15th, 2008
Complete papers (max. 8.000 words) should be sent before September 30th,
2008
Conference Proceedings
The most outstanding conference contributions will be published after
the conference.
Contact
For all conference issues visit our website at www.tog08.org
Post-Graduate School „Topology of Technology“/ Graduiertenkolleg
“Topologie der Technik”
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Karolinenplatz 5 (P.O. Box 1404), D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/gradkoll-tdt
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Sebastian Haumann
TU Darmstadt
stream3@tog08
Homepage <www.tog08.org>
URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
<http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=8808>
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