Online Lightning Talks
A Vintage Tram System as a Strategic Mobility Alternative in Santos City, Brazil: Linking Past and Present in the Historical City Center
Virtual Lightning Talk Niedja Santos
Santos, one of the twenty oldest Brazilian cities, is a traditional seaside resort in Brazil with 430,000 inhabitants, also known as the Brazilian cruise ship capital, receiving about five million tourists each year. The vintage tram system emerged as a strategic mobility alternative as a result of a plan aimed at reconfiguring the abandoned city center into a touristic attraction, transporting people in the historical city center, while also safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage. Several aspects are considered in this program. Former drivers were invited to return as “Tram´s Grandfathers” and are operating the trams nowadays, a five kilometer ride has been implemented passing through touristic attractions, some of the trams were donated by Sister Cities around the world, Santos' history is told while people are transported through the historical city center, and the tour departures from a restored 1800's train station and arrives at the Pele Museum. This is a sustainable action that has impacted the city center revitalization, mainly through the opening of restaurants, companies, and building restoration.
Mapping Animal Carcerality and Mobility: Dogs in and around Animal Detention and Rehabilitation Centers in Istanbul
Virtual Lightning Talk Mine Yıldırım
Every year, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) forcibly displaces more than 20,000 street dogs from inner-urban districts; confines more than half of them to two animal detention and rehabilitation centers located on the margins of the city. While animal detention and rehabilitation centers form the fixed centers of mass dog incarceration in Istanbul; spatial logics, design, and practices of carcerality prevail also beyond them; permeate to, and turn the surrounding communities into “transcarceral spaces” by means of regulation of bodies, intense surveillance, police, and use of violence. What sustains the spatial porosity and permeability of transcarceral spaces are dogs- their isolated, surveilled, often tortured; and yet undisciplined, transgressive, and unruly bodies. The research makes street dogs in Istanbul central informants in ethnography of carcerality, space, and animality. It tracks forcibly displaced street dogs’ movements between those transcarceral spaces of urban marginality in Istanbul as living, symbolic and material agents that move through different states of urban change and decay, care and violence, order, and disorder.
Urban Gating and Nocturnal Space in Contemporary Jakarta: Vigilance of Anxious Urban Majority
Virtual Lightning Talk . .
Walking in Jakarta, one can easily find gates in front of the alley and some main roads near residential areas which locals usually call it as portal. Gates are installed by the local community, at the end of a road that permeates the alignment of the houses, in order to block the access to the road at night. Despite the material similarity, this cannot be captured as neo-liberal urban development akin to “gated communities” (Blakely and Snyder, 1995). Construction of these gates is tightly correlated with role neighborhood organization, especially its night watch practice that culturally and administratively embedded in Indonesian urban societies (Barker 1998, 1999; Kusno 2006). For this reason, it offers panorama that breaking dualism of spatial exclusiveness where gates can be found in wealthy as well as dominantly poor neighborhoods. This paper describes how gates replace “traditional” night watch in community and perform routine and spontaneous manipulation of the territory in selected localities. Furthermore, this paper argues that, nocturnal space that created by them as representation of collective derive of urban majority (Simone, 2014), to “reterritorialize space with the intent to reinforce some semblance of conventional order and regularity in the darkness” (William, 2008 p. 521). In this sense, it is not merely a security concerns but an intent to occupy the nocturnal segment of their everyday life from diurnal bustle of contemporary Jakarta, in which main streets are projected as outside of community’s normality and order that may bring unwelcome mobility inside their territories.
