Researching Architecture and Society. What can a Sociology of Architecture learn from Science and Technology Studies?
Workshop of the Working Committee "Sociology of Architecture" of the DGS-sections Urban and Regional Sociology and Sociology of Culture in cooperation with the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
June 6-8, 2013, Bielefeld University, Germany

Everyone interested in the topic is cordially welcomed to participate the workshop (no fees).
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Preliminary Program
--- last update: May 27, 2013 --- Subject to Change ---

OVERVIEW

Thursday, June 6, 2013
5:30PM | Room: A2-125 | Registration
6PM-8PM | Room: A2-125 | Public Lecture and Discussion

All panels will take place in Room V2-121

Friday, June 7, 2013
 9:30AM-10AM | Welcome Address
10AM-12PM | Panel I
12PM-1:30PM | Lunch
1:30PM-3:30PM | Panel II
4PM-6PM | Panel III
7PM Joint Dinner @ Il Corvo

Saturday, June 8, 2013
9:30AM-10:50PM | Panel IV.a
11AM-12:20PM | Panel IV.b
12:30PM-1:30PM | Closing Discussion & Publication Strategies
1:30PM | Business Meeting WC "Sociology of Architecture"

 

 

DETAILED PROGRAM

Thursday, June 6, 2013
6PM-8PM | A2-125 | Public Lecture & Discussion | "Science & Technology Studies meet Sociology of Architecture -- A Critical Dialogue About Societies and Their Objects"
Speakers: Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago & Universität Konstanz) & Martina Löw (TU Darmstadt)
Chairs: Anna-Lisa Müller (Universität Bremen) & Werner Reichmann (Universität Konstanz)

 

All panels will take place in Room V2-121

Friday, June 7, 2013

9:30AM-10:00AM | Address of Welcome with Anna & Werner

10:00AM-12:00PM | Panel I: The Impact of Materiality On Sociality
Chair: Anna-Lisa Müller (Universität Bremen)

  • Theresia Leuenberger (TU Darmstadt): Theoretical implications in actor-network-based analysis of the act of perceiving and experiencing architecture. (abstract)
  • Marianne Stang Våland (Copenhagen Business School) & Susse Georg (Aalborg Universitet): The sociology of architecture revisited: exploring the relationship between material and organizational devices. (abstract)
  • Christine Neubert (TU Dresden): Between ubiquity and marginality: Following the idea of Workplace Studies in Berlin's Humboldt-Box. (abstract)

12PM-1:30PM | Lunch

1:30PM-3:30PM | Panel II: Values and Materiality
Chair: Silke Steets (TU Darmstadt)
  • Christina May (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Zoological parks as cultural representations and ecological experiments. (abstract)
  • Magdalena Łukasiuk (Uniwersytet Warszawski) & Marcin Jewdokimow (Kardinal Stefan Wyszynski University): Mutual influence of the architecture and all the social properties of a non-home. (abstract)
  • Jarmin Christine Yeh (University of California, San Francisco): Researching Architecture and Society. What can a theoretically and empirically ambitious sociology of architecture learn from STS? (abstract)
4PM-6PM | Panel III: Processes & Techniques of Forming Materiality
Chair: Werner Reichmann (Universität Konstanz)
  • Paul Jones (University of Liverpool): Architecturing Futures: Modelling, Capitalism, and Claims-Marketing. (abstract)
  • Hanna Katharina Göbel (Universität Hamburg): Touching an Issue Twice: Symmetry in Practices of Architects and STS/ANT - Scholars. (abstract)
  • Jeremias Herberg (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg): How to build on sand. A paradox and heuristic for participatory city planning. (abstract)

7PM Joint Dinner @ Il Corvo

Saturday, June 8, 2013
9:30AM-10:50PM | Panel IV.a: Interests, Discourse, & Materiality
Chair: Tino Minas (Universität Münster)
  • Endre Dányi (Universität Frankfurt): The Parliament as a High-Political Program. (abstract)
  • Jeffrey Chan (National University of Singapore): Ethical Agency in Architecture: Spatializing Morality and the Production of Moralizing Spaces. (abstract)
11AM-12:20PM | Panel IV.b: Interests, Discourse, & Materiality
Chair: Tino Minas (Universität Münster)
  • Nikolai Roskamm (TU Berlin): The Materiality of Discourse - Laclau vs. Latour. (abstract)
  • Robin Bartram (Northwestern University): Architectures and Infrastructures in Epistemic Moments of Neighborhood Change: How Built Environments Provoke Controversy and Destabilize Discourse. (abstract)

12:30PM-1:30PM | Closing Discussion & Publication Strategies

1.30pm | Meeting of the DGS-Working Committee "Sociology of Architecture" (everyone's welcome)