Mediacity is the name of a project that is financed by the Marie Curie mobility programme »Transfer of Knowledge« of the European Commission. It takes place at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and explores »the social settings and spaces of the city are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence of new media.«

On January 18-19 now, Mediacity organizes the conference »Situations. Practices. Encounters.« That’s the chance to get a better understanding of the project and its interesting subject. Here’s a random choice from the speach titles in the programme: »Situating Design – Designing Situations«, »Territories, Prolongations, Visibilities: the Editing of Urban and New Media Environments«, »The Significance of Media in Promoting Social Interaction and Spatial Integration: The case of Johannesburg Inner-City« or »The Impact of Mobile Phone Use on Privacy Perception in Public Spaces.«

The conference has three speaker sessions, a workshop and »several additional activities« (whatever that means). Even if there are no big names on the speakers’ list: As it is an exciting subject and the project is interdisciplinary positioned it could be worth to take the trip to the beautiful city of Weimar and experience the Bauhaus-University and other things worth seeing like the houses of Goethe and Schiller, the Buchenwald Memorial or the Bauhaus Museum.