URBAN INTELLIGENCE
There is no doubt that cities offer a particularly innovation-friendly environment compared to other forms of settlement. Since their emergence over 6,000 years ago, cities have been centres of social, cultural and technical progress. But for a long time, there were only very general explanations for this.
Only in recent years have insights into the functioning of social networks and the interpersonal dissemination of information increased, for example in chaos research, complexity theory, and evolutionary and behavioural research. Building on this, it is also becoming increasingly clear how cultural evolutionary processes are facilitated by the specific human-environment relationships in cities. However, the significance of urban space in this context remains largely unexplored. What impact does urban space have on human encounters, the dissemination of information and the emergence of innovations? This question is the focus of Tim Rieniets' research. Building on knowledge from various disciplines (see above), he is attempting to develop new approaches to explaining ‘urban intelligence’.
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Publications (selection):
- Rieniets, T, 2022, Urbane Intelligenz: eine Alltagserfahrung. in Entdeckungsreise zu Gebieten von besonderem Interesse: Dokumentation der Tagung Kunst und Kultur als Entwicklungsfaktor für Städte und Regionen. Soziokultur Niedersachsen, S. 7-10.
- Rieniets, T, 2021, Urbane Intelligenz: Warum uns das Leben in der Stadt sparsamer und innovativer macht. in Nimmersatt? : Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken. Eine Kooperation von Kunsthalle Münster, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur und Westfälischem Kunstverein, S. 85-95
- Rieniets, T, 2020, stadthaltig. in T Rieniets, M Sauerbruch & J Walter (Hrsg.), urbainable stadthaltig: Positionen zur europäischen Stadt für das 21. Jahrhundert. ArchiTangle, S. 25-32
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