This winter term 2023/24 we present to you our 10th round of RUSTlab Lectures. Come and join us for these exciting talks and discussions around this term's guiding theme Best Futures on five Thursdays in the winter term - online and on site. The lectures take place 14-16…

Comment by Katrin Amelang The lecture by Laura Kocksch was an excellent way to continue our exploration of "Infrastructuring indeterminacies” this semester and to follow up on the previous talk by Phoebe Sengers, which had inspired us to think of infrastructures from their edges. This time, however, the…

A new research paper by Anaïs Siebers and R. Melis Baydag has been published under Playful Writing. The paper explores the materiality of programming languages drawing on Paul Dourish’s book “The Stuff of Bits” (2017). It focuses on the comparison of arrays, or data structures, in the programming…

Comment by Leman Çelik This term's RUSTlab lecture theme, "Infrastructuring Indeterminacies," involves acknowledging and intentionally designing or shaping infrastructures to be adaptable, flexible, and capable of handling uncertainties, disruptions, and unexpected situations. Instead of seeking complete control or predictability, infrastructure indeterminacies recognize the value and potential of embracing…

Join us this Thursday, July 6th, from 16-18 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this summer term. Lindsay Poirier will present her work on “Juking the Stats: Ethnographies of Disclousure Data Sets”. Abstract: In this talk, I piece together the socio-political provenance of a series…