Biographical note: Peter Mörtenböck (Prof. Dr. phil.) und Helge Mooshammer (Dr. techn.) lehren Visuelle Kultur an der Technischen Universität Wien und am Visual Cultures Department des Goldsmiths College, University of London. Sie forschen gemeinsam zum Verhältnis von Gegenwartskultur und globaler Ökonomie sowie zu Formen der Beteiligung in geopolitischen und urbanen Prozessen. Bei transcript erschienen »Netzwerk Kultur. Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt« (2010) und der Sammelband »Space (Re)Solutions. Intervention and Research in Visual Culture« (2011).
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"Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms. By claiming to offer a mechanism to translate every conceivable occurrence into an abstract code that can be endlessly manipulated, digitally processed data has caused conventional reference systems which hinge on our ability to mark points of origin, to rapidly implode. Authors from a range of disciplines provide insights into such a political economy of data capitalism; the political possibilities of techno-logics beyond data appropriation and data refusal; questions of visual, spatial and geographical organization; emergent ways of life and the environments that sustain them; and the current challenges of data publics, which is explored via case studies of three of the most influential platforms in the social media economy today: Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. Data Publics will be of great interest to academics and students in the fields of computer science, philosophy, sociology, media and communication studies, architecture, visual culture, art and design, and urban and cultural studies"--
Weltweit gesehen gilt die Hälfte aller ökonomischen Aktivitäten als informell. In Zeiten der globalen Unsicherheit wird heute immer mehr darauf gesetzt die produktive Energie von Informalität zu integrieren, um wirtschaftliches Wachstum und sozialen Zusammenhalt abzusichern. Informelle Marktplätze und die zahlreichen Konflikte rund um deren Räume und Konventionen bilden sowohl Schauplatz als auch Steuerungsmoment dieser Entwicklung. Von Märkten der Überlebensökonomie bis zum inszenierten ökonomischen Anderssein spürt dieses Buch den Diskursen und Akteuren, Widersprüchen und Potenzialen nach, die neue Formen von Informalität vorantreiben.
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AbstractThis article examines different ways in which finance models have become the ruling mode of spatializing relationships, arguing that the ongoing convergence of economic and spatial investment has transformed our environments into heavily contested 'financescapes'. First, it reflects upon architecture's capacity to give both material and symbolic form to these processes and considers the impacts this has on the emergence of novel kinds of urban investment frontiers, including luxury brand real estate, free zones, private cities, and urban innovation hubs. Focusing on speculative urban developments in Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, the article then highlights the performative dimension of such building programs: how architectural capital is put to work by actively performing the frontiers of future development. Physically staking out future financial gains, this mode of operation is today becoming increasingly manifested in urban crowdfunding schemes. We argue that, far from promoting new models of civic participation, such schemes are functioning as a testbed for speculation around new patterns of spatial production in which architecture acts less as the flagstaff of capital than as a capital system in itself.
'Platform Urbanism' discusses the fundamental transformation of urban space through platform technologies. By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life?from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems. Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer are Co-Directors of the Centre for Global Architecture, an interdisciplinary initiative established to study the planetary changes affecting spatial production today. Their work has received numerous awards and commendations worldwide. Exhibition: Austrian entry for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (22.05.y ? 21.11.2021)
