DxD25: Infrastructure + Methodological Diversity - Live stream

Keynotes by Orit Halpern (Technische Universität Dresden) and Ezekiel Dixon-Román (Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Columbia University). With further contributions from Oliver Cronk (Scott Logic), Bernard Keenan (UCL), Connal Parsley (Kent), Sol Pérez Martínez (ETH Zürich), Astrid Wynne (Techbuyer Europe) and Compiler.

The conference explores the coming together of infrastructure and interdisciplinary methodologies, to tease out some of the nuances of positions, to explore methods that cut across disciplinary borders, and offer new epistemic insights.

Infrastructure has emerged over the past decades as a core concern for most disciplines – concerning basic facilities such as transportation and urban design, resource supply such as water, electricity, digital technologies, knowledge and data structures – and extended to almost everything in order to situate phenomena that form part of the underlying structures of states and economies.

Attention to infrastructure helps to stress wider relational properties and how power is distributed among them, as part of the hidden substrate that binds not only includes devices and networks but also logistics, shared standards and laws. Commentators recognize that infrastructure has become a medium of information and mode of governance, operationalized through actions that determine how objects, and data about individuals, group actors and places are captured, organized, analysed and circulated.

How do different disciplinary traditions approach the concept of infrastructure, and what can we learn from the intersection(ity) of positions?

Schedule

Thursday 03 July

15:00 – 17:00 Compiler – Hyperlocal Hotspot [Workshop]

18:00 – 19:00 Orit Halpern (Technische Universität Dresden) [Keynote]

Friday 04 July

10:00 – 11:00 Ezekiel Dixon-Román (Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Columbia University) [Keynote]

11:30 – 12:30 Bernard Keenan (UCL), Connal Parsley (Kent), with Ozan Kamiloglu (LSBU)

13:30 – 14:30 Sol Pérez Martínez (ETH Zürich), with Igea Troiani (LSBU)

15:00 – 16:00 Oliver Cronk (Scott Logic), Astrid Wynne (Techbuyer Europe), with Kasra Kassai (LSBU)

16:15 – 17:00 Discussion.

Conference organised by Geoff Cox, Ozan Kamiloglu, Kasra Kassai and Igea Troiani (Digital x Data Research Centre). Supported by London South Bank University.