Real Crime: Architecture, the City and Crime: On the productive power of real and imagined crime in the development of building technology, architecture and town-planning

Criminalized deviant behavior and strategies for its prevention have a strong impact on moral and political discourses within society. As Michel Foucault argued, crime can be used by dominant social classes to consolidate their hold on power. Yet, crime also proves tobe a very productive sector in a purely materialistic sense. We know from Karl Marx that crime doss not just create courtrooms, jails, laws and police, it also leads to representations of crime in the human and natural scien- ces, the mass media and the fine arts. Undoubtedly, one of crime's biggest impacts is in the security industry, architecture and the design of public space. The article demonstrates this by using a range of evidence, including the reporting of a brutal murder in one of Vienna's largest public housing estates in the late 1980s. The public discussion following the crime brought about the introduction of crime-prevention ideas from the USA, as weil as a rare alliance between police authorities and feminist campaigners. One important outcome was the gentrification of some parts of the city, while a number of measures were implemented with the aim of making public areas safer at night.Criminalized deviant behavior and strategies for its prevention have a strong impact on moral and political discourses within society. As Michel Foucault argued, crime can be used by dominant social classes to consolidate their hold on power. Yet, crime also proves tobe a very productive sector in a purely materialistic sense. We know from Karl Marx that crime doss not just create courtrooms, jails, laws and police, it also leads to representations of crime in the human and natural scien- ces, the mass media and the fine arts. Undoubtedly, one of crime's biggest impacts is in the security industry, architecture and the design of public space. The article demonstrates this by using a range of evidence, including the reporting of a brutal murder in one of Vienna's largest public housing estates in the late 1980s. The public discussion following the crime brought about the introduction of crime-prevention ideas from the USA, as weil as a rare alliance between police authorities and feminist campaigners. One important outcome was the gentrification of some parts of the city, while a number of measures were implemented with the aim of making public areas safer at night

Mobilitätserfahrungen und Grenz-Infrastruktur - Bus-Stop Nickelsdorf 2015, eine Bestandsaufnahme

A video animation serves to characterise the mobilities and processes around the arrival of refugees at a border checkpoint. The municipality of Nickelsdorf (province of „Burgenland“) and the refugee arrivals in fall 2015 serve as field. The authors consider borders neither as simple thresholds nor as ramparts, but as socio-political places that de-mobilize or accelerate transit and sustained movement. The refugees’/migrants’ routes in the Balkans coincide with the biographical mobilities of the bus drivers who transport the arriving people, traffickers are in connivance with customs officers, and infrastructures in proximity of borders boost or collapse in accordance with the changing border regimes. Transnational networks continue to operate in spite of routes and borders that are politically declared as being “closed”

An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm

Creative practices have made a standing contribution to mobilities research. We write this article as a collective of 25 scholars and practitioners to make a provocation: to further position creative mobilities research as a fundamental contribution and component in this field. The article explores how creative forms of research—whether in the form of artworks, exhibitions, performances, collaborations, and more—has been a foundational part of shaping the new mobilities paradigm, and continues to influence its methodological, epistemological, and ontological concerns. We tour through the interwoven history of art and mobilities research, outlining five central contributions that creativity brings. Through short vignettes of each author’s creative practice, we discuss how creativity has been key to the evolution and emergence of how mobilities research has expanded to global audiences of scholars, practitioners, and communities. The article concludes by highlighting the potency of the arts for lively and transdisciplinary pathways for future mobilities research in the uncertainties that lay ahead