Aarhus University, Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Centre for Digital Transformation in Cities and Communities (DITCOM). 

The Infrastructures of Publics Workshops are a series of encounters between disciplines, fields of expertise and practice to redefine and re-envision an urban public sphere for the networked society. Defining new understandings of civic communication as an interdisciplinary interest, the workshops bring together the worlds of journalism, media studies, civic systems design, interaction design, policy, architecture and urban planning.

The series starts with two workshops in May and June 2022 and will continue in Spring 2023. All workshops are held on Zoom and registration is required. The workshops are part of the project "Infrastructures and Interfaces of Publics: Journalism for Civic Communication in Urban Spaces" (INFRAPUBLICS), funded by AUFF (Aarhus University Research Fund, 2021-2023), led by Christoph Raetzsch: https://ditcom.au.dk/projects/infrapublics. 

Download the agenda and abstracts here.

Registration

• 8 June, 10-14:30 (CEST) Registration (free): https://events.au.dk/publicsworkshop2/signup
   

Agenda 8 June 2022 (10:00-14:30 CEST)
Registration: https://events.au.dk/publicsworkshop2/signup 

• 10:00-10:30 Welcome by Christoph Raetzsch and Introduction of workshop and participants
• 10:30-11:00 Interface - Infrastructure Relationships: Towards a theoretical framing
  • Christoph Raetzsch: On Interfaces and Infrastructures of Publics in Urban Spaces
• 11:00-11:15 break
• 11:15-12:15 The Politics of Data Visualisations and Design of Interfaces
  • Nicole Hengesbach (University of Warwick, Department of Computer Science): “Towards the representation of limitations in/of data through seamful visualisation”
  • Burcu Baykurt (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication): “The Techno-Politics of Covid-19 Dashboards in U.S. Cities”
• 12:15-13:00 lunch break
• 13:00-14:00 Pathways of creating impact between practice, society and education. Open discussion among participants and input by guest speaker Adriënne Heijnen, Senior Scientific Advisor, Centre for Digital Transformation in Cities and  Communities (DITCOM)
• 14:00-14:30 Closing Discussion: Future Research for Interfaces and Infrastructures of Publics - Journalism, Datafication and Civic Designs. Future Workshop editions inputs for Fall 2022/Spring 2023.