Laboratory on Urban Research

Seminar Presenter: Marcella Szablewicz Date: Saturday 29 May, 2010 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract: Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz have conducted ethnographic research on digital gaming practices in urban China over the last 6 years. Digital games are not only inherently participatory but are […]

Seminar 以平台为方法：在北京，宁波和上海反制图研究的策略 Presenter: Ned Rossiter Date: Sunday 25 April, 2010 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract Platforms organize. They bring bodies and brains into relation. While they require highly distributed formats of digital communication and translation, platforms must connect with off-line worlds. Practices of collaborative […]

Seminar Presenters: Maren Koehler and Bettina Vismann Date: Saturday 27 March, 2010 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract This project investigates the organizational and spatial dimensions of waste, with a special focus on the collection of urban waste and processes of selection for recycling. In […]

Seminar Presenter: Anna Greenspan Date: Saturday 19 December, 2009 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract Modernism’s alchemistic promise has been a failure, a hoax: magic that didn’t work. Its ideas, aesthetics, strategies are finished. Together, all attempts to make a new beginning have only discredited […]

Seminar Presenter: Professor Justin O’Connor (Queensland University of Technology) Date: Saturday 7 November, 2009 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract Clusters of diverse creative businesses are increasingly important for creative industries and urban policy makers across the globe. Traditionally seen as ‘organic’, because of the […]

Seminar Presenters: Gillian Fuller and Ross Harley Date: 11 October 2009 Time: 2-4pm Venue: Xindanwei, 4C, Bld 4 in Shanghai Hub No. 727 Dingxi Lu, Changning Abstract Discourses of contagion, containment, crisis and immanent disaster are part and parcel of contemporary airport logistics. Recent scares over SARS, avian and swine flu highlight the wide variety […]