not with david bowie (though i would not mind dancing with him…) but rather with an amazing, absolutely rad crowd of students & lecturers that have been attending our masterclass in novosibirsk/russia and got heavily involved with ethnographic explorations into the city and conceptualizations of urban spaces.

the workshop has just been followed by an exhibition at the academy of architecture and arts, see the blog for photographs; the gallery as such can be found here.
the whole project will be completed by a workshop lead by choreographer richard siegal and, eventually, the final performance going out dancing in the streets of novosibirsk. perhaps re-enacting the everyday, staging sth., whatever, we will have to wait for richards ideas what to do with the notations and concepts we found during the workshop!

i will soon post a little bit more about the concept and the intentions behind the project. for those multilingual ones try stadt & tanz nowosibirsk to find out more.
the course as well as the whole programm we planned around it, is initiated by the local goethe institute in cooperation with the academy of architecture and arts as well as novosibirsk state university.

thanks to anna and all of you keeping the blog up!

a symposium in honour of ulrich beck. speakers are arjun appadurai, bruno latour, zygmunt bauman, navid kermani and others.

topics will be

*COSMOPOLITANIZING EUROPEAN MODERNITY

*WORLD RISK SOCIETY – CLIMATE CHANGE IN A COSMOPOLITICAL VIEW

*INEQUALITY, POWER AND GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL AGE

*INDIVIDUALIZATION COSMOPOLITANIZED

the event is free, it just needs registration. for further information see their homepage

DJV Sachsen & Mephisto 97.6 präsentieren

Lesung & Diskussion: Nachrichtenwelten

Eine Veranstaltung der Reihe „Mein Buch – Journalisten als Autoren“.

www.djv-sachsen.de

http://www.horns-erben.de/

diese perspektivenverschiebung leistet alan posener im deutschlandradio kultur. als audio on demand unter Obama und die Neocons, Politisches Feuilleton vom 04.03.2009, 07:23, Länge 04:13 Minuten.

interessanter links zu den etwas trockeneren arbeiten zu diesem thema:
transatlantic academy und transatlantic-forum

Yesterday at »less rain« /talk about the weather British designer Loki English presented his ideas on future directions in interaction design. He announced the a post-digital age. Why is that?

Following Loki – we get bored too easily floating around in the virtual world, attention spans are too short to really get involved with things – or even honour the designers’ hard work. Enough of that – Get involved instead! Participate in the real world! Charmingly he recommends a shift in perspective. Instead of comprehending technology as mediating interaction he provides an understanding of technology as a tool facilitating social interaction:

What he focuses on here is a notion of emplacement or collaboration – melting the sensation of being there, using technology and getting involved with other people. Away from the virtual to the essentials of the real, back to a practice that refers to the human being. This sounds pretty close to Heidegger’s notion of »Gestell«, i.e. technology as an aid or tool for humanity. It comes with no surprise he is a Goldsmiths graduate, trained at a certain critical but affirmative approach towards the social.

Drawing parallels between contemporary democracy and design he declares the beginning of the post-digital age. Pretty innovative he would compare different techniques of marketing / design presentations, i.e. representations, with modes of democracy and participation. Why the Ford stall at Geneva Exhibition resembles British Democracy, an entertaining and innocent interactive game that of Singapore – see for yourself at lokido.com.

His way of thinking as well as his practice approach however reminded me very much of the production of desires at the 199o’s park fiction project in Hamburg, a re-invention of (grassroots) democracy through participation facilitated by technology. This aiming at the subaltern as well as at those that are part of the establishment (see as well Christoph Schäfer’s saloon la realidad).

Unluckily the Lokido homepage does not offer too much of these general ideas on post-digitalism. You will also miss Loki’s eloquent and breathtaking way to talk about his work and ideas. So you will miss a verbal blitzkrieg on issues such as the world economic crisis, the crisis of creative industries etc. his homepage instead offers a variety of his commercial work. However, there is a short video presentation on the project done with the council of Stepney Green at the Auburn Youth Centre. Go to lokido.com and click Beat House, for the Singapore Experience see Free Up. And don’t miss exploring the rest!

• Journalism – Basic techniques
• Chapter 1: What is news?
• Chapter 2: What is a journalist?
• Chapter 3: The shape of the news story
• Chapter 4: Writing the intro in simple steps
• Chapter 5: Writing the intro, the golden rules
• etc…

Media Helping Media (MHM) is a network involved in the worldwide development of journalism and a free press

for a critique on the anglo-centric bias and further links see open anthropology.