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MediaArchitecture Workshop at the MEDIACITY Conference 2008
19th January 2008, Bauhaus-University Weimar

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Frank Eckardt (ed.)

Media and Urban Space
Understanding, Investigating and Approaching Mediacity

354 pages, 39,80 €, Paperback, ISBN 978-3-86596-142-6

New information and communication techniques have significant influences on urban life. In this book, international and interdisciplinary research, projects and considerations about the emerging “Mediacity” are presented. Contributions from scientists, artists, and architects from 14 different countries are analyzing, researching and creatively approaching the cultural, social, political, and economical phenomena of the encounter between media and urban space.






MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters
International Conference, 18-19^th January 2008, Bauhaus-University Weimar 

The conference will investigate how the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media. We will take the position that new media enables different settings, practices and behaviours to occur in urban space. These media create opportunities for diverse forms of connections between people and spaces and enable and create flows; of information, of communication and of knowledge.

The conference will consist of three sessions, a workshop and several additional activities, which will explore these themes in a focussed way. We anticipate contributions from academics, practitioners, activists close to disciplines such as media studies, architecture, urban studies, cultural and urban geography and sociology – using in innovative ways and reflecting critically on processes, methods and impacts of public participation and technologies in urban realm, within their theoretical and practical research, teaching, or activism roles.

MEDIACITY Conference 2008