SENSING AND MAKING SENSE OF CITIES AS WAVE FIELDS: A multimodal guided bus tour through “hot spots” in Madrid 

In this special format, we invite conference participants to join us in a hot sensory exploration of urban spaces in Madrid, where problematizations of heat as sun radiation are particularly public and intimate matters (or rather waves) of concern. As a wave, heat is felt, sensed, measured, visibilized, mapped, contested, and imagined in a sheer variety of modes by means of audiovisual and material/infrastructural productions. A bus will be waiting outside IFEMA and will take us on a 3-hours guided ride to several of Madrid's “hot-spots” that will inspire imaginations and speculations of various and, in some cases, contradictive urban (and personal) responses to heat. The selected localities, the performative experiences, and the complementary presentations, discussions, and inputs will touch upon three hot topics: urban green infrastructures, environmental in/justice, and speculative interventions. This special feature is part of the ERC-wavematters project “Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism”, which explores how airborne waves, such as noise, 5G, and heat dis- and re-assemble urban experiences, and how cities respond and react to these waves. 

Event-Details: 
Start of the tour: 8th of July, 4 pm. 
Meeting Point: outside IFEMA (Av. del Partenón, 5A) 
End of the tour: 8th of July, 7 pm. 
Closing point: Matadero Madrid (Pl. de Legazpi, 8)

• For participation, please register by sending an E-Mail to mailto:elisabeth.luggauer@hu-berlin.de by 6th of July 22
• The ride will be documented and filmed. By registering, you agree to these terms. 
• COVID-19 policy for the bus ride and tour will be announced shortly before the event. 

Information about the convenors:

Ignacio Farías

Ignacio Farías (HU-Berlin) is professor of urban anthropology at the department of European Ethnology. His research interests concern current ecological and infrastructural transformations of cities and the associated epistemo-political challenges to the democratization of city-making. His most recent work explores the politics of environmental disruptions, from tsunamis over heat to noise. He is also interested in doing urban ethnography as a mode of city making performed with others (designers, initiatives, concerned groups, policy makers) and by other means (moving from textual to material productions).

Elisabeth Luggauer

Elisabeth Luggauer (HU-Berlin) is an urban anthropologist with a special interest in thinking about urban spaces as multispecies and more-than-human assemblages. She is currently a senior researcher in the ERC-WAVEMATTERS-project Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism at the Department of European Ethnology at HU-Berlin and explores how bodies are exposed to heat and learn to be affected, as well as multispecies knowledge production about urban heat and multispecies interventions into urban formations and rhythms

Jorge Martín
	He currently works as a public official in Madrid’s council and also collaborates as an invited researcher in the ERC-WAVEMATTERS-project Urban vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism at the Department of European Ethnology at HU-Berlin exploring how heat is sensed, known and imagined in the case of Madrid’s policies and urban projects.