Talks by Henriette Bier ( TU Delft ) Gabriele Brandstetter ( FU Berlin) Manfred Füllsack (Uni Graz)Babak Ghanadian (niriu Hamburg) Verena V. Hafner (HU Berlin) Alex Hall (Google Zürich) Paul Harrenstein (TU München)Martin Hoefer ( RWTH Aachen) Andrej Holm (HU Berlin) Felix König (TomTom Amsterdam) Jens Krause ( IGB Berlin) Lorenz Matzat (Medienkombinat Berlin) Shintaro Miyazaki ( Berlin) Felix Salfner (HU Berlin) Stefan Thurner (MedUni Wien) Matthias Trapp (HPI Potsdam) Christina Vagt ( TU Berlin ) Carolin Wiedemann ( Berlin) Katharine S. Willis ( Plymouth )

Commentary by Claus Pias (Lüneburg) and Wolfgang Hagen (Lüneburg)

Keynote Speeches byDirk Helbing (ETH Zürich) and Sándor Fekete (TU Braunschweig)

Concept and Organisation byTobias Harks (Maastricht) and Sebastian Vehlken (Lüneburg)

LocationDenkerei Oranienplatz 2 10999 Berlin www.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods

Blankensee‑Colloquium 2012Funded by the Kooperationsfonds of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study

A Transdisciplinary ConferenceAug 30 – Sept 01, 2012

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neighborhood technologiesmedia and mathematics of dynamic networksA Transdisciplinary Conference Blankensee-Colloquium 2012Denkerei Oranienplatz 2 10999 Berlinwww.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods

panel 6 : neighborhood images and politics

14.00 – 15.30 Matthias TrappNeighborhood Visualization – Challenges and Strategies from a Geovisualization PerspectiveAndrej Holm/Lorenz MatzatGentriMap – Geovisualisierung als Instrument der Stadtentwicklungsanalyse

15.30 Coffee Break

15.45 – 17.00 Claus Pias/Wolfgang HagenCommentary and Concluding Plenary Session

17.00 End of Conference

panel 3 : neighborhood realities

14.00 – 16.00 Jens KrauseCollective Behavior and Swarm IntelligenceVerena V. HafnerInteractive RoboticsGabriele BrandstetterChoreographing the Swarm – Relational Bodies in Contemporary Performance

16.00 Coffee Break

panel 4 : neighborhood architectures

16.30 – 18.00 Christina VagtBuckminster Fuller: Neighborhood DesignHenriette Bier Neighbourhood Technologies in Digitally – Driven Architecture

19.30 Conference Dinner for Conference Speakers

panel 1: neighborhood connections

15.00 – 16.30 Shintaro MiyazakiNeighborhood Listening. A Media Archaeology of Packet Switching inthe 1970sCarolin Wiedemann›Anonymous‹ and the Desire to Keep Swarming

16.30Coffee Break

16.45 – 18.15Katharine WillisAugmented Neighborhoods – Locative Media and Changing Mental Models of Urban PlacesBabak Ghanadian From Virtual Strangers to Real Neighbors: ›niriu‹, the Local Network

18.15Break

keynote 1

18.30 – 20.00 Dirk Helbing FuturICT – Global Participatory Computing for Our Complex World

20.00 Get-Together

panel 5 : neighborhood coordinations

10.00 – 11.30 Felix SalfnerGlobal Knowledge from Local Measurements – Detecting Spreading Anomalies in Complex Software Systems Alex HallProcessing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click

11.30 Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00 Stefan Thurnertba (Complexity Science)Felix KönigCrowdsourcing in Navigation – How Selfish Drivers Help to Reduce Congestion for All

13.00 Lunch Break

keynote 2

9.30 – 10.45 Sándor Fekete Improving Traffic Flow by Local Methods

10.45 Coffee Break

panel 2 : neighborhood complexities

11.00 – 13.00 Martin HoeferContribution and Matching Games in NetworksPaul HarrensteinIt Takes All Kinds to Make a WorldManfred FüllsackEmergence and Downward Causation – Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Welcome Reception

14.30 – 15.00Thorsten WilhelmyWelcome AddressTobias Harks /Sebastian VehlkenNeighborhood Technologies – An Introduction

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neighborhood technologiesmedia and mathematics of dynamic networksA Transdisciplinary Conference

dateAug 30 – Sept 01, 2012

locationDenkereiOranienplatz 2, 10999 Berlinwww.leuphana.de/conference-neighborhoods

concept and organisationTobias Harks (Maastricht) Sebastian Vehlken (Lüneburg)

blankensee‑colloquium 2012Funded by the Kooperationsfonds of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced StudyCo-funded by Leuphana University Lüneburg

Layout and Graphics: Angelika StadlerPhoto: Sebastian VehlkenPrint: Campus Copy, Lüneburg

neighborhoodtechnologies media and mathematics of dynamic networks

neighborhood technologies media and mathematics of dynamic networks

When sociologist Thomas Schelling published his research on housing segregation in major US-American cities in 1971, he accomplished more than just contributing to a novel type of ›social mathematics‹. With Schellings interest in the mechanisms of social segregation and his respective models, the analysis of actual neighborhood dynamics converged with a ›neighborly‹ research method. Starting from some basic local – aka neighborly – micro-relations of a defined number of agents behaving according to a restricted rule set, Schelling dynamically generated macroscopic segregation patterns. Henceforward, neighborhoods in a two-fold way (as objects and as applications) constituted a new research paradigm in which the complex macro-behaviors of a system and the non-linear dynamics of social collectives are generatively and procedurally put forth by rigidly defined microscopic neighborhood relations.

Neighborhoods depict an intermediate or meso-range for the linkage of single local agents with the overall global dynamics of social networks. Today, theories and practices of such Neighborhood Technologies have captured a variety of scientific disciplines: from Sociology to Biology, to Mathematics and Logistics, and to Robotics or Media Studies. Neighborhood technologies can thus serve as a principal element not only of a further understanding of social network dynamics. It can also be of use for developing an adequate (media) history and theory of social networks. The 2012 Blankensee Colloquium engages with these guiding lines from a transdisciplinary perspective.

The ambiguity of neighborhoods as scientific object and as application plays an important role in mathematical optimization and algorithmic game theory. These disciplines search for actual objects and systems where neighborhood relations play an important role – in order to subject them to mathematical analysis. Their major focus lies on predicting, evaluating and qualitatively assessing the state of an uncontrolled system that is determined by distributed actions of (rationally behaved) individuals based on their available information.

Likewise, for some years a growing interest in neighborhood-induced effects can be discovered in Culture and Media studies. Be it the ongoing discourse of swarm intelligence and the role of distributed (online) communication networks for political action, be it a media historical approach to local based media (e.g., GPS-navigation) and their influence on a transformation of concepts of space and time: Neighborhoods come to be part of not only a topographical and topological, but also conceptual transformation. They become an influential driving force of (global) mass movements, and they transform collectives into eminently technological arrangements.

We attempt to short-cut the above described ›two cultures‹ of a preoccupation with dynamic networks in Culture and Media Studies and Mathematics via a re-wiring of their discourses, theories and applications. We seek to comprehensively address this research field by establishing a platform for the thorough discussion of neighborhood concepts and notions across scientific cultures. Thus, we invite researchers who concretely apply multi-agent systems in their respective research contexts: from Biology, Sociology, Computer science, Architecture, Robotics and Complexity studies. And we also include developers from businesses engaging in the neighborly organization of dynamic networks. With this layout, the Neighborhood Technologies conference alludes to a broader theory of social networks while at the same time originating new neighborhoods between scientific disciplines.

14.00 Welcome Reception

14.30 Thorsten Wilhelmy ( Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin) Welcome AddressTobias Harks ( University of Maastricht ) and Sebastian Vehlken ( Leuphana University Lüneburg) Neighborhood Technologies – An Introduction

panel 1: neighborhood connections

15.00–16.30 Shintaro Miyazaki (Berlin) Neighborhood Listening. A Media Archaeology of Packet Switching in the 1970sCarolin Wiedemann (Studienstiftung, Berlin) ›Anonymous‹ and the Desire to Keep Swarming

16.30 Coffee Break

16.45–18.15 Katharine S. Willis (University of Plymouth) Augmented Neighbourhoods –Locative Media and Changing Mental Models of Urban PlacesBabak Ghanadian (niriu, Hamburg) From Virtual Strangers to Real Neighbours: niriu, the Local Network

18.15 Break

keynote 1

18.30–20.00 Dirk Helbing ( ETH Zürich) FuturICT – Global Participatory Computing for Our Complex World

20.00 Get-Together

keynote 2

09.30–10.45 Sándor Fekete ( TU Braunschweig) Improving Traffic Flow by Local Methods

10.45 Coffee Break

panel 2: neighborhood complexities

11.00–13.00 Martin Hoefer ( RWTH Aachen)Contribution and Matching Games in NetworksPaul Harrenstein ( TU München)It Takes All Kinds to Make a WorldManfred Füllsack ( Uni Graz )Emergence and Downward Causation –Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood-Networks

13.00 Lunch Break

panel 3: neighborhood realities

14.00 –16.00 Jens Krause ( IGB Berlin) Collective Behavior and Swarm IntelligenceVerena V. Hafner ( HU Berlin )Interactive RoboticsGabriele Brandstetter ( FU Berlin ) Choreographing the Swarm – Relational Bodies in Contemporary Performance

16.00 Coffee Break

panel 4: neighborhood architectures

16.30–18.00 Christina Vagt ( TU Berlin ) Buckminster Fuller: Neighborhood DesignHenriette Bier ( TU Delft ) Neighbourhood Technologies in Digitally-driven Architecture

19.30 Conference Dinner (for Conference Speakers)

panel 5: neighborhood coordinations

10.00–11.30 Felix Salfner ( HU Berlin) Global Knowledge from Local Measurements –Detecting spreading Anomalies in Complex Software SystemsAlex Hall (Google Zürich) Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click

11.30 Coffee Break

11.45–13.00 Stefan Thurner (MedUni Wien) tba (Complexity Science)Felix König (TomTom, Amsterdam)Crowdsourcing in Navigation – How Selfish Drivers Help to Reduce Congestion for All

13.00 Lunch Break

panel 6: neighborhood images and politics

14.00–15.30 Matthias Trapp (HPI Potsdam)Neighborhood Visualization – Challenges and Strategiesfrom a Geovisualization PerspectiveAndrej Holm (HU Berlin) and Lorenz Matzat ( Medienkombinat Berlin)GentriMap – Geovisualisierung als Instrument der Stadtentwicklungsanlyse

15.30 Coffee Break

15.45–17.00 Claus Pias and Wolfgang Hagen ( Leuphana University Lüneburg)Commentary and Concluding Plenary Session

17.00 End of Conference

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