Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces

Gabriela Christmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Research Department ‘Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development’ at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany. Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the author of PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society, the co-author of Videography: Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations, and the co-editor of Social Constructivism as Paradigm? and Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing the Relations of Media, Knowledge, and Innovation in Society. Martina Löw is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She is the author of The Sociology of Space and co-editor of Spatial Sociology: Relational Space after the Turn.

Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction. Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches 2. From the Constitution to the Communicative Construction of Space 3. The Symbolic Construction of Spaces: Perspectives from a Sociology-of-Knowledge Approach to Discourse 4. Digital Media, Data Infrastructures, and Space: The Refiguration of Society in Times of Deep Mediatization 5. Cities, Regions, and Landscapes as Augmented Realities: Refiguration of Space(s) through Digital Information Technologies 6. The Theoretical Concept of the Communicative (Re)Construction of Spaces 7. Eliciting Space: Methodological Considerations in Analyzing Communicatively Constructed Spaces Part III: Empirical Studies 8. Digital Urban Planning and Urban Planners’ Mediatized Construction of Spaces 9. Centers of Coordination Refigured? Control of Synthetic Space 10. Architectures of Asylum: Negotiating Home-making through Concrete Spatial Strategies 11. Over the Counter. Configuration and Refiguration of Ticket-Sales Conversation through Institutional Architectures-for-Interaction 12. Innovation and Communication: Spatial Pioneers and the Negotiation of New Ideas 13. Talking about Hip Places: Imaginaries and Power among East-German Reinventions of Urban Culture 14. A Systemic Model of Communication in Spatial Planning