Lift Workshop@Hungary : Eastern Quartier

Pécs, Hungary, September 26, 2010

Call for participants!

The Lift Conference, founded in 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland is an international series of events exploring the social implications of digital technologies. The newest feature of the conference, Lift @ home aims to extend the geographic scope of the conference enabling the community of Lifters to organize locally and share the experience of inspiring talks and activities that investigate the future of the networked society.

Departing from this context Lift Workshop@Hungary : Eastern Quartier addresses the possibilities of new technologies in the socio-cultural periphery of a changing post-industrial urban landscape. It turns this particular locality and its challenges into the centre of the attention of architects, artists, social scientists from the region and from regional media labs with the objective to explore and connect with recent discussions regarding urban computing and situated technologies and extend the discourse to specific regional issues and problems.

The aim of the workshop is to explore the implications of urban information systems for architecture and urban design, disciplines that have been largely absent from the mostly technologist-driven discussions of "ubiquitous" computing but nevertheless can provide new insights and alternative perspectives on the implications of “networked objects” for urban culture, newly emerging spatial practices and organizational forms. During the workshop participants develop responses, scenarios applicable to Eastern Quartier and later other urban areas undergoing similar transformation.

During the workshop participants split into groups led by the four workshop instructors and work through the phases as detailed below:

  • Phase 1 Focus on issues, problems, opportunities including a SWOT analysis of Pécs and the urban periphery
  • Phase 2 Review of the field, and ideas generation for
    urban/architectural projects, services, systems, solutions
  • Phase 3 Short presentations of the different ideas/concepts.
  • Phase 4 Selected concepts are developed further by designing architectural proposals and/or by creating utopian/dystopian scenarios.
  • Phase 5 Presentation of the projects and discussion of research approaches, and action/implementation plans

Speakers

  • Violeta Bulc coming from Slovenia and is the founder and general manager of VIBACOM, a company creating innovation management tools.
  • Marcus Foth associate professor and principal research fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology.
  • Christophe Guignard architect, founding member of fabric | ch, a studio for architecture and research in Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Martijn de Waal writer, researcher, co-founder of Mobile City blog.

For detailed program and registration

please go to LIFT WORKSHOP@HUNGARY's website!

Should you have more questions, please contact us at lifthungary at kitchenbudapest dot hu.

Organizers:

Daniella Huszár
Melinda Sipos (Kitchen Budapest)
Attila Bujdosó (Kitchen Budapest)
Levente Polyák (KÉK)
Samu Szemerey (KÉK)