Welcome Addresses

Prof. Dr. Alexander Wanner
Vice President of KIT for Higher Education and Academic Affairs

Dr. Albert Käuflein
Mayor of the City of Karlsruhe

Introduction

Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies, KIT

Opening Keynote Lecture

Who Owns the Smart City? The Democratic Threat of Network Urbanism
Leo Hollis (United Kingdom)
Historian and urbanist, author of the book ‘Cities are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis’

Musical Programme

Saxophone Ensemble of Karlsruhe’s University of Music
Nicole Pfaff (alto saxophone), Leonie Kistner (alto saxophone), Valentin Müller (tenor saxophone), Jonas Zilius (tenor saxophone), Gesa Amelie Petersen (baritone saxophone)
Conductor: Peter Lehel

 
The saxophone ensemble of Karlsruhe’s University of Music, led by Peter Lehel, presents a mix of saxophone music styles ranging from classical swing by way of grooving jazz through to new interpretations of pop songs. The rich diversity of saxophone sounds is always entertaining. And the ensemble is an impressive talent showcase for the students of Peter Lehel’s saxophone class.

Film Contribution

What do you consider to be an ‘intelligent’ city?
Interviews with Karlsruhe citizens
Film contribution of the Wissenschaftsbüro (science office) of the city of Karlsruhe

Welcome Addresses

Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies, KIT

Opening Keynote Addresses

Smart Cities – On the Way to a Higher Quality of Life?
Prof. Dr. Harald Heinrichs (Germany)
Professor of Sustainability and Politics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Boudewijn van Lieshout (CC BY 3.0)

This is the Century of the Cities – the Horizontal World
Rob van Gijzel, former MP (Netherlands)
Former Lord Mayor of the city of Eindhoven, Chairman of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)

Interior Peripheries: Towards a Horizontal Metropolis
Prof. Dr. Paola Viganò (Italy)
Professor of Urbanism, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy

This is What a Democratic ‘Smart City‘ Looks Like
Prof. Dr. Trebor Scholz (USA)
Associate Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, New York

Lunch Break

1.30 p.m.

Photo: Mathias Heyde

Smart Cities: Ethos instead of Algorithm?
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba (Germany)
Director of the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM)
(Unfortunately, Prof. Kaschuba had to cancel his speech at short-notice due to illness)

Cities which Sense and Respond
Umberto Fugiglando (Italy)
Research Fellow Lead, Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

China’s Social Credit System
Dr. Samantha Hoffman (USA)
Visiting Academic Fellow, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin; and Research Consultant, Future Conflict and Cyber Security and Defence and Military Analysis, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-London)

SmartSantander: From the Smart City Paradigm to the Digital Single Market
Prof. Dr. Luis Muñoz (Spain)
Department of Communications Engineering, Laboratories for R&D on Telecommunications, University of Cantabria

The Self-Actualising City
Niraj Saraf (United Kingdom)
Innovation Lead for Urban Living, Innovate UK

The Dialogue Project „Centre for Urban Insecurity”
Members of the project ‘Centre for Urban Insecurity’ (Germany)
Developed in the course of the Schader Forum summer camp 2017

ARTE-Filmnacht

Presentation of documentaries, short and feature films in cooperation with ARTE and the movie theatre Schauburg Karlsruhe

Provide security, ensure services and supplies, manage the digital revolution and solve social problems: how can all this be achieved?
The ARTE film night focuses on the challenges facing cities and their inhabitants.

A question of power
Wem gehören unsere Städte?
(Who do our cities belong to?)
Documentary by Claire Laborey
ARTE France 2015, 89 min.

Increasingly, citizens are getting actively involved in their living environment. But urban transformation is determined by economic and political interests: Wem gehören unsere Städte? (Who do our cities belong to?)

Interference zone
Peripheria
Short film by David Coquard-Dassault
ARTE France 2015, 12 min.

The abandoned suburb: Peripheria A journey

City Guide 4.0
Städte der Zukunft: Smart Cities
(Cities of the Future: Smart Cities)
By Jean-Christophe Ribot
ARTE France 2014, 52 min.

Traffic, energy, communication: digital technologies regulate human coexistence. Städte der Zukunft: Smart Cities (Cities of the Future: Smart Cities) – a look at advantages and threats

Urban rural life
Städte der Zukunft: Die urbane Farm
(Cities of the Future: The Urban Farm)
By Benoît Laborde
ARTE France 2014, 52 min.

Urban agriculture and ‘vertical farming’: can metropolises feed their own inhabitants? Städte der Zukunft: Die urbane Farm (Cities of the Future: The Urban Farm)

Late Night Snack

Street life
Teheran Tabu
(Teheran Taboo)
Feature film by Ali Soozandeh
ARTE/ZDF 2016, 90 min., FSK: 16

About personal fulfilment, double standards and dealing with prohibitions in Iran’s capital: Teheran Tabu (Teheran Taboo)

(Artificial) Intelligent Cities of Tomorrow

Moderation: Markus Brock
Moderator, 3sat and SWR

Rob van Gijzel, former MP (Netherlands)
Former Lord Mayor of the city of Eindhoven, Chairman of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF)

Leo Hollis (United Kingdom)
Historian, urbanist and writer

Wolfgang Mayer (Germany)
Former representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Egypt, former head conservator of the state capital Stuttgart

Élisabeth Guigou (France)
Former French minister, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation

3.00 p.m.
 

© SINISSEY Photography

Prof. Dr. Stephan Porombka
Es ist Liebe

We are living in a new age of romanticism. The social media artist Stephan Porombka challenges us to rediscover love. People don’t write love letters any more? Not true! Stephan Porombka tells stories of love in the 21st century – and proclaims a new romantic revolution. As an Internet artist, professor and sought-after speaker on digitization themes, he experiments with the new possibilities of communication by smartphone. Our relationships are changing radically because of the Internet, we all have more contacts now than ever before. Stephan Porombka shows how beautiful digital encounters can be if we approach love in a creative way. His book is an attractive and also inspiring pamphlet for the digital present.

No entrance fee
Registration necessary.

The reading is in German.

Angriff auf die Freiheit

Adapted from work by Juli Zeh and Ilija Trojanow, directed by Patrick Wengenrothh
Theatre play with following discussion

The monitoring and control of all areas of life by the state and by commercial enterprises has already become reality. Whether we surf the Internet, wait for a train or pass through both public and private spaces, our actions are recorded, assessed and networked. Because the fight against terror is declared a war and so delusionally suggests that we are in a state of emergency, we often accept the creeping curtailment of our civil rights without any great protest. What are the political and moral dangers resulting from our lax attitude to basic rights? Drawing on the polemics of Zeh and Trojanow as well as many songs, Patrick Wengenroth has composed an evening that is both critical and enjoyable.

The performance is in German.

Admission: 15 € / discounted admission: 7,50 €
Tickets at the box office (Phone: 0721-933 333) or viawww.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de