Autumn Colloquium with Guest Lecturer Volkan Sayman, Technische Universität Berlin (Dresden, 07.10.2019)

On October 7, 2019, the members of the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group met in the Werner Hartmann Building of the TU Dresden for this year's autumn colloquium. In addition to the presentation of the first (partial) results of the projects within the cluster structure, with the subsequent opportunity for direct feedback from the participants, participants enjoyed a guest lecture by technology sociologist Volkan Sayman from Berlin, entitled "Automated mobility as a controversial spatial innovation". Mr. Sayman, research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin, illustrated his research work, which focuses primarily on the question of how, by whom, and with what interests the changes in public spaces through autonomous and automated mobility are made a public issue.

"The public sphere, as the public space in which we drive, live, linger, or consume, and as a communicative and legally negotiated space for debating controversial issues, is the double vanishing point of my work. My aim is to research the field of innovation around automated vehicles and how the public space will or might change with such vehicles, based on the analysis of publicly articulated ideas about the future of automated or autonomous mobility systems." (Volkan Sayman)

An intensified cooperation with the CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces", a collaborative research center of the DFG, is being sought.

In addition, Ms. Julia Gutierrez Lopez was welcomed as a new member of the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group, which has been working on sub-project C1 since October 1^st, 2019. The colloquium was a good opportunity for them to get to know all the other sub-projects and the members of the group.