Annual Conference of the project B09 “Bicycle Media: Cooperative Media of Mobility”
Mobility is a cooperative process shaped by a variety of media, social, and infrastructural practices. Cycling, too, is conditioned by the interplay of diverse technologies, infrastructures, bodies, images, and public spheres. At the same time, bicycle mobility is neither neutral nor equally accessible to all: it is shaped by social power relations and diverse experiential worlds.
Against this backdrop, the annual conference of the research project “Bicycle Media – Cooperative Practices of Mobility” (SFB 1187 “Media of Cooperation”) examines the bicycle itself as a medium of public sphere and participation: as a form of mobility that connects people, places, perspectives, and knowledge, thereby enabling a specific appropriation of space. The conference takes as its starting point an expanded concept of media that encompasses not only audiovisual and digital formats but also understands (care) practices such as repair, activism, or collective cycling as forms of mediation.
Our perspective on cycling is shaped by the media. Conversely, cycling also shapes media spaces. In this context, the papers presented at the annual conference examine the bicycle (and cycling) as a medium of embodied experience and perception, particularly in relation to public discourses, emotions, bodies, and infrastructure. The conference will discuss diversity-sensitive and intersectional perspectives on bicycle mobility, for example with regard to mobility conflicts, gender and class relations, as well as unequal conditions of access and representations.
We cordially invite you to participate and join the discussion.
Venue
Kortumstraße 90
44787 Bochum
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Projekt Program
17.09.26
Day 1
Begrüßung & Einführung: Fahrrad als Medium
Mittagspause
Panel 1: Medien/Diskurse: Media Discourses on Refugee Women Learning to Ride Bikes; Polizeimeldungen über getötete Radfahrer*innen; Saddlesisters. Fahrradfeminismus im Spannungsfeld von Road Rage und Wiki Rage
Aram Lee; Marlene Sattler; Xenia Waporidis & Hannah Schmedes
Pause
Panel 2: Körper- und Affektwelten des Radfahrens: Sweat Mode on – Die Ambiguität kollektiven Schwitzens als strukturierende Dimension von Praxis, Körpern und Artefakten im Indoor-Cycling; Milieuspezifische Lebenswelten des Radfahrens. Einblick in Forschungsdaten einer Cultural-Probes-Studie; Radfahren im Spektrum. Sichtbarkeit, Affekt und Bewegung
Christopher Kirschner; Caro Baaske; Herbert Schwaab
Pause
Panel 3: Mobilitätskonflikte: Fahrradmobilität, Klassenkonflikte und der Backlash der Mobilitätswende; "Violences routières". Konflikte zwischen Rad- und Fußverkehr in Paris
Thomas Klinger, Sören Groth & Joschua Kuckherm; Gabriele Schabacher
Gemeinsames Abendessen
Filmscreening: "Bici-bles" - Fahrradaktivismus als Medium der Kollektivierung und Kollaboration
Sarah Sander
18.09.26
Day 2
Ankunft & Kaffeepause
Panel 3: Urbane Räume: Fatshaming, Bequemlichkeit und Technikdeterminismus. E-Bike-Disruption in Amsterdam; Städtische Fahrradkulturen im Wandel - Eine kreislaufwirtschaftliche Perspektive auf Reparatur, Konsum und Distinktion; „50 Tage – 50 Stadtteile“. Stadtteilerkundungen mit dem Fahrrad
Markus Stauff; Maximilian Hoor; Katharina Sakowski
Kaffeepause
Panel 4: Sichtbarkeiten: Ausdauer streamen. Plattformisierung und die Medialität des Fahrradfahrens am Race AcrossAmerica 2026; O Acidente - Fahrrad, Vulnerabilität und (post-)koloniale Verkehrsplanung
Julia Willms; Maximilian Rünker
Mittagessen
Gemeinsame Fahrradtour
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Projekt B09
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