Conference: Automated Environments

As the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Goethe-Institut has been present in Montreal for over 50 years and is dedicated to the promotion of the German language, culture as well as exchange between Canada and Germany.

Goethe-Institut

Automated Environments
Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic collapse have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, and governments towards “infrastructure” as a site of value production and potential salvation from a world consistently defined by catastrophes and “crisis”. From discussions about “disaster capitalism” to the embrace of a world after humans, the idea that some environmental, economic, or security catastrophe has arrived, or will arrive, is almost unquestioned. In response, there has emerged a new paradigm of high technology infrastructure development obsessed with “smart”, “ubiquitous”, “algorithmic”, or “automated” infrastructures. These infrastructures are imagined as resilient, optimal, efficient, and sustainable; solutions to a world that must simultaneously always expand economically while facing seemingly insurmountable resource and security constraints. Design and technology have come to be posited as solutions to a public and political sphere seemingly incapable of dealing with problems at infrastructural and even terran scales. 
This conference will engage the rise of ecologies of automation and their impact on human life, habitation, agency, sovereignty, and imagination. We want to ask how the turn to “smart” and automated systems is historically related to changes in governmentality, politics, and economy, while considering the future of “intelligent” and smart design, habitats, economies, and polities. 
 
 
Conference Schedule: 
12 – 1 PM         Registration
1 – 2:45 PM      Energetic Environments Speakers: Nerea Calvillo (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick), Gretchen Bakke (Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas at McGill University), Daniel Barber (Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn Design) 
3 – 4:45 PM      Smartness-Infrastructure Speakers: Michael Fisch (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at University of Chicago), Michael Jemtrud (Associate Professor of Architecture at McGill University)
5 – 6:45 PM      Media Ecologies Speakers: Yuriko Furuhata (Associate Professor at Department of East Asian Studies & World Cinemas Program at McGill University) and Maya Indira Ganesh (Director of Applied Research at Tactical Technology Collective Berlin) 
7 – 8 PM           Reception
 
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Montreal in collaboration with Speculative Life Cluster (Concordia University), and hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
This conference is part of “Germany @ Canada 2017 – Partners from Immigration to Innovation”, a special cultural program presented by the Goethe-Institut and the German Embassy highlighting the German-Canadian friendship in honour of Canada's sesquicentennial year.

Canadian Centre For Architecture

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