Documentation

This is an archive of images, videos, writings and other materials associated with platform planning, events and field trips.

Transit Labour Digest #5 December 2012

Editors: Kernow Craig, Katie Hepworth, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter

Content:Interventions Towards the Logistical City, Katie Hepworth / Notes on Art, Fieldwork, and Method, Giovanna Zapperi / Field/s as Sites of Encounter, Ishita Dey / Zones and Corridors: Accumulation in Post-colonial Capitalism / Port Botany Data Visualisations / Three Propositions on Zones: A Case Study of Delhi / Conflicting Expertise in the Shanghai Financial Market as a Zone, Giulia dal Maso / Life in the Cab, Transport Workers Union / Creaky Infrastructure, Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter

Download a PDF of the Transit Labour Digest #5 here:
transit_labour-digest_5.pdf (5.3 MB)

Transit Labour Digest #4 June 2012

Editors: Kernow Craig, Katie Hepworth, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter

Content: Between cognizant and infinity,Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra / The Social Factory, Ranabir Samaddar / Disinterring Labour in Transit in Terms of Class Processes, Byasdeb Dasgupta / 'Transit' Labour in Mumbai City, Mouleshri Vyas / Engaging with the Idea of 'Transit Labour', Samita Sen / On Capitalist Development and Logistical Rationality (In Memory of Kalyan Sanyal), Giorgio Grappi / The Logistical City: Software, Infrastructure, Labour, Ned Rossiter / "Nothing, Just a Pond": Imagining Empty land in the Construction of Rajarhat, Katie Hepworth / The Context of Metropolitan Planning: The New Town at Rajarhat, Keya Dasgupta / Producing Subjectivity Through Urban Space: The Function of "Equipements Collectifs" in Neoliberal New Town, Livio Boni / Listening as a Method for 'Knowing':Sound Mapping Sector V and Rajarhat, Anja Kanngieser

Download a PDF of the Transit Labour Digest #4 here:
transit_labour-digest_4-web.pdf (3.4 MB)

Port Botany Visualisation

Design: Kernow Craig. Research: Katie Hepworth. Programming: Quang Vinh Nyugen. Concept: Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter.

Visualisations of wharf activity and truck turnover times at Port Botany, Australia

Download a PDF of the draft road data visualisation here:
Road Data Visualisation (2.6 MB)

Download a PDF of the draft wharf data visualisation here:
Wharf Data Visualisation (2.6 MB)

Download a zip file of the full visualisations here:
Visualisation (234 KB)

Please unzip the folder and click on wharf.jar to view the wharf data visualisation and on road.jar to view the road data visualisation. Your computer must have java installed for these files to open.

For Mac users, open the .jar files from your Finder menu to view the 2 visualisations.

Transit Labour Digest #3 August 2011

Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter

Content: The Logistical City, Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter / Bizarre Urbanism, Suhit K. Sen / New Town and Labour in Transit, Ishita Dey / Rajarhat, The Urban Dystopia, Ranabir Samaddar

Download a PDF of the Transit Labour Digest #3 here:
transit_labour-digest_3-web.pdf (2.6 MB)

Transit Labour Digest #2 December 2010

Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter, Soenke Zehle

Content: From Flows of Cult ure to the Circuits of Logistics: Borders, Regions, Labour in Transit, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle / From Statistical to Logistical Populations, Stefano Harney / Baoshan Electronics Market, Shveta Sarda / Future functions: aspiration, desire and futures, Anja Kanngieser and Manuela Zechner (www.futurearchive.org) / My Trip to Santa’s Workshop, Chen Hangfeng / Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex ‘Diasporization’ of Contemporary Chinese Art, Paul Gladston / Shanghai: City of Ot her People’s Dreams, Justin O’Connor and Gu Xin / Monitoring Particles and Populations: Expo-Urbanism and the Rise of Eco-Governance Regimes, Mauricio Corbalan and Soenke Zehle / Shanghai Expo: seeing the world in small, Tim Winter / Shanghai’s State of the Creative Arts: At the Opening of the Rockbund Art Museum, Geert Lovink / Guijing migrant village, Brett Neilson / Between Centre and Periphery, Sandro Mezzadra / On the City’s Edge, Anna Greenspan

Download a PDF of the Transit Labour Digest #2 here:
transit_labour-digest2-web.pdf (2.8 MB)

Video interview: Chen Hangfeng & Ned Rossiter, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Manuela Zechner / Anja Kanngieser & Soenke Zehle, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Mauricio Corbalan & Brett Neilson, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Geert Lovink & Soenke Zehle, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: David Teh & Soenke Zehle, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Venzha Christ & Soenke Zehle, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Angela Melitopoulos & Brett Neilson, Shanghai Platform

Video interview: Maurizio Lazzarato & Brett Neilson, Shanghai Platform

Transit Labour Digest #1 July 2010

Editors: Kernow Craig, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter

Contents: Shanghai Platform Statement / 垃圾经济学 Waste Economies, Maren Köhler and Bettina Vismann / Translating // The Transcultural, Soenke Zehle / Xindanwei: new work unit, Anja Kanngieser / From IT Factory to Electronic Markets, Ned Rossiter / Luxurious Riffraff / 琳琅满目, Chen Hangfeng / What is a Research Platform?, Anja Kanngieser, Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter / Concepts / Method / Shanghai Platform 30 Days of Research and Events / About the Transit Labour Series

Download a PDF of the Transit Labour Digest #1 here:
transit_labour-digest_1-web.pdf (1.95 MB)