Istanbul - "Urban Transformations: Past, Present, and Future"
September 13-20, 2014

Program

May 6 -11, 2014, Abisko (S)

Program

Winter term, fridays 9:00 - 11:30 am, S 3/13/334
Starts on October 18, 2013 (orientation program)

Schedule

WS 13/14 "Infrastrukturalismus der Frische", workshop and excursion with Dr. Stefan Höhne (TU Berlin), Graduate Program "Topology of Technology" Technische Universität Darmstadt

Forschungsworkshop on November, 14  2013 from 4:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue: Darmstadt, Alexanderstr. 10, Room S115 / 127

Schedule

The Research Training Group organizes an excursion to Los Angeles from September 21 to October 1 on the topic"A topological journey through postmodern Los Angeles".

Excursion report

Summer term, fridays 9:00 - 11:30 am, S 3/13/334
Starts on April 26, 2013 ( Oberseminar will be dropped on long weekends)

The seminar is divided into three sessions:

1. Preparing the excursion to LA               
2. Presentation and discussion of the scholars research projects
3. Theory and empiricism of cognitive spatial experience in virtual environments

Schedule

20.-25. August 2012, Waldemar-Petersen-Haus, Riezlern / Austria

Schedule

27.02.-01.03.1012

Stations of the excursion: Visit to the historic old town, Gründerzeitviertel, Ecocité, guided tour through the Banlieue, and visiting the European Parliament

Reader

26.-30.09.2011 / Venue: Landhotel Imhof, Rommerz

Jointly organized by:

• The Graduate Program Topology of Technology, Darmstadt University of  Technology, Germany
• Interuniversity Research Centre of Technology, Labour and Culture (IFZ) Graz, Austria

Schedule

Final interdisciplinary conference organized by the Graduate School "Topology of Technology"

Darmstadt University of Technology, March 3. - 5., 2011

Call for Papers

October 2009 - February 2010
On Wednesdays, 7.00-8.30 pm, prelude October 21, 2009

A collaboration of the Institute of Philosophy and the DFG Graduate School “Topology of Technology” (Dirk Hommrich)

We are used to associate terms like “technics” and “technology” with material apparatuses, equipment and hardware. We speak of technology when machines are involved, when mechanical procedures and automatic action take place, when functions are triggered and manipulations or manufacturing processes shape both our view of the world and society. A set phrase that has been coined in Darmstadt and is used since then is that technology assembles a “material dispositif”, thereby evoking the idea of concrete materiality.

download poster here
more ...
download audiofiles here

Oct. 07 - Oct. 09, 2009. Venue: Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt
Conference Homepage

October 30-31: The Graduate School “Topology of Technology” at Darmstadt University of Technology organizes an international conference on the spatial dimensions of past and current technologies.

Presently (re-)shaping social life as well as economics and science, the effects of globalization are in their turn – and in manifold ways – related to and in fact highly dependent on technology. The first international conference seeks to explore in greater detail and from a deliberately interdisciplinary angle the role(s) and function(s) of world-embracing information and communication technologies, transport and computing facilities in the global age. [more...]

Full call for papers as PDF file

03.09.2008. An international workshop looking at the roles 'Architectures' play in the shaping of spatial and political landscapes.

Poster

Programme

June 25-29. In the past two decades the spatial turn has successfully put the category of space back on the agenda of many disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. In our summer school we would like to address the transdisciplinary implications of the current renaissance in spatial theory.

Full call for papers as PDF file

The interdisciplinary PhD Summer School 2007 was a great success. We want to thank all lecturers and participants for their active participation and invite them to visit the website of the PhD Summer School 2007.